COMPLETE Front End Engineer, Amazon Visual Experience - Seattle

Job Description

The Amazon Visual Experience team processes images and organizes information for billions of products, ensuring that each product image empowers customers to make informed purchasing decisions. We are looking for an innovative and result-oriented Front-End Engineer to build our next generation of systems for our selling partners to upload and manage images for billions of products. A Front-End Engineer on the AVX team is a technology leader that demonstrates exemplary practice in design and implementation of new services. You will drive solutions for scalable, efficient, and fault tolerant services. You will act as a thought leader to influence our overall strategy by helping define product features, driving system architecture, and spearheading best practices that enable a quality product. The ideal candidate will be passionate about solving engineering challenges of modern web applications and distributed back-end systems at massive scale on an ongoing basis and have a demonstrable record of accomplishment for delivering successful products. We take pride in developing and applying cutting-edge products that optimize the bestselling partner and customer experiences.

Key job responsibilities
A Front-End Engineer on the AVX team creates the experiences for selling partners providing them with tools to upload and manages images for their products and feedback on how to improve their images and listings.

A day in the life
On the AVX team, Front-End Engineers work with Product Managers, Usability Engineers, UX designers and back-end developers to provide the end-to-end experiences for selling partners to upload images and provide feedback on the quality and compliance of their images.

About the team
AVX team provide a complete set of accurate, informative, and consistent visual content for every product in Amazon stores by acquiring and selecting the best content from Selling Partners and contributors, and augmenting or generating new content as necessary to create a clean visual shopping experience and increase customer purchase confidence.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

New York, NY, USA | Seattle, WA, USA

Basic Qualifications:

- 2+ years of non-internship professional front end, web or mobile software development using JavaScript, HTML and CSS experience
- 2+ years of computer science fundamentals (object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving and complexity analysis) experience
- Experience using JavaScript frameworks such as angular and react

Preferred Qualifications:

- 1+ years of agile software development methodology experience
- Experience with common front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, JS, TypeScript, and Node
- Experience building scalable, distributed, front-end experiences
- Experience reviewing appropriate quality plans, test strategies and interacting with QA for testing activities

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $115,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.