Senior Front End Engineer - Amazon Publisher Service, Amazon Publisher Services

DESCRIPTION

Job summary
Amazon Publisher Services (APS) offers a suite of cloud-based services that helps publishers around the world build, optimize, and grow thriving digital businesses. We provide solutions, infrastructure, and advanced advertising technologies to streaming TV, audio, web and mobile app publishers, including many of Comscore’s global top 100, to help them monetize their ad-supported content. APS exclusively supports header bidding which allows publishers to simultaneously request bids for multiple ad spots and increase yield. Our header bidding solutions are fast and reliable across devices, handling billions of queries per day, delivering ads in milliseconds. The result is more profitable advertising for publishers and more relevant ads for their audiences. APS develops solutions to solve technical challenges on behalf of our customers including advanced TV, audio, mobile and web SDKs, highly-scalable distributed web services, big data analytics as well as user interface web portals which are all built on Amazon Web Services (AWS). At APS, we start with the customer and work backwards in everything we do.

APS helps publishers easily access third-party ad tech services and quality demand from advertisers, including premium third-party brands and advertisers as well as demand from Amazon’s brands. APS works with Amazon DSP and other third-party buyers to bring advertisers and sellers closer together. Amazon DSP is Amazon’s programmatic advertising product for campaigns spanning Video, Audio and Display across Amazon properties (e.g., Amazon.com, IMDb TV, Twitch, Fire TV, and Amazon Music) and tens of thousands of third-party websites and apps that are integrated with APS. APS constantly innovates and builds solutions for our customers.

APS Mobile team is responsible for building advertising technology products and services that empower mobile app developers globally, to easily build and grow thriving businesses through maximizing revenue, improving user experience, and gaining deeper insights into their audience. If you’re interested in joining a rapidly growing team working to build a unique, world-class advertising group with a relentless focus on the customer, you’ve come to the right place.

We’re looking for an engineer to extend our Front-End Engineering Team. Our Front-End Engineering team creates publisher products which are critical for the efficiency and profitability of our advertising business.

In this role you will
· Set up the technology, frameworks and development methodology
· Define the system architecture, own and implement specific components, and help shape the publisher experience.
· Develop rich looking responsive user interfaces using modern front-end web technologies
· Lead the frontend applications architecture to develop common reusable code
· Lead discussions to analyze our needs, then improve and develop front-end solutions
· Instill the culture of software quality from creation to production deployment. Write quality code backed by automated unit, integration tests.
· Instrument apps, debug to resolve production issues and tune the applications to improve performance.
· Break down the work items, assign tasks to junior engineers and mentor them to grow
· Continuously learn modern technologies, share with team, improve best practices for frontend applications development and delivery
· Build and operate the systems based on real-time customer data and demanding service-level agreements

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 4 years of professional non-internship experience with front end, web or mobile software development using JavaScript, HTML and CSS

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other technical field, or commensurate professional experience.
• Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures and algorithms
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle
• 7 years of Front end development experience
• Experience with Object Oriented JavaScript Frameworks, mastery of the latest JavaScript language features, HTML5 and Web Standards, Cascading Style Sheets, expertise with consuming different types of web services, REST APIs and JSON, experience with native or hybrid mobile applications development
• Experience taking a leading role in building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers
• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior management to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
• Hands-on expertise in many different front-end technologies and the curiosity and ability to pick up more
• Experience setting up software engineering best practices within your team and mentoring junior engineers
• The ability to be self-directed, and be able to direct the work of other front-end engineers as a Technical Leader
• Mastery of toolset from applications development, production build & deploy tools.
• Experience developing highly responsive, performant large-scale applications for consumers with different devices and network speeds
• Experience instrumenting applications, performing advanced level debugging, analysis and working with ops to debug production issues