Software Development Engineer

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Are you excited by the challenge of building AWS customer facing products? Do you like improving customer experience while choosing and adopting AWS partners and solutions? Do you like to build products with huge business impact and visibility? If yes, you may be a great fit to join the AWS Partner Systems team.

AWS is one of Amazon’s fastest growing businesses, servicing millions of customers all over the world, reshaping the way that global enterprises consume information technology, and powering the developers who are building the next generation of global industry leaders. AWS customers include some of the most innovative startups like Netflix, Airbnb and Instagram, as well as some of the largest global enterprises like Shell, Unilever, Hitachi, Sharp, and Samsung. AWS partners include the world's top technology and consulting firms like SAP, Siemens, Splunk, Accenture, and Rackspace. The AWS Partner team works with tens of thousands of partners to bring solutions to market that drive revenue and increase AWS customer adoption.

In this specific role you will start out as a Web Development Engineer responsible for building products which are going to be the cornerstone for partner discovery (https://aws.amazon.com/partners/find/) and partner led AWS solutions for our customers. The product would address a variety of customer personas such as enterprises, startups, developers or individuals trying to discover, adopt and engage with partners. You would be responsible for implementing technology solutions that can scale at the pace of the AWS customer and partner community. As a Web development engineer in the team, you will work backwards from our customers’ business needs, you will interact with our product managers to shape our product vision, you will quickly iterate on front-end interfaces and have a working knowledge of back-end data handling. You are someone who thrives in fast-paced environment where problems are not always crisply defined and the challenges offer unlimited potential for innovation. You are a self-starter who can dive into a project with limited guidance and are as passionate about creating compelling experiences for customers as we are. You have working knowledge of Adobe CQ and know about and continually want to learn about modern frameworks like Angular or React and strive to build highly responsive, intuitive and sleek experiences for customers. You can provide technical leadership to the team and you understand the nuances, pitfalls and strengths of the various web-app development frameworks and associated best practices. You’re determined to find the right approach even if it’s not your own. You believe in agile development, quick prototypes and strive to see your work in action. You believe that web development is the perfect concoction of creativity, art and computer science.

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· BS in Computer Science or related field
· Knowledge of Adobe CQ and front end development tools
· Proficiency in modern web development including HTML5, CSS, and Javascript frameworks
· 2+ years of experience developing web-based user interfaces
· Demonstrated passion for user experience and improving usability
· Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
· Knowledge of AWS systems, configurations
· Ability to work in a fast-paced and agile development environment and to learn new frameworks/stacks
· Self-directed and capable of quickly shipping code in a dynamic environment