What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr Front-End Engineer (100% Virtual) - AWS Console Platform position at Amazon?
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Job summary
Location: 100% US Virtual
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is one of Amazon’s fastest growing businesses. At AWS, we are passionate about thinking big, innovating on behalf of our customers, and tackling problems at scale. Millions of customers, from individual developers to large enterprises, interact with AWS by using the AWS Management Console. The Management Console is their introduction to AWS, and for many, their primary interface to accomplish a wide variety of tasks. It is our job to maintain and improve this experience, constantly innovating with rapid design and experimentation leveraging well-established mechanisms for gathering and understanding user behavior and feedback.
Key job responsibilities
The AWS Console Widget Platform team is looking for a highly passionate and capable Front-End Engineer. The Widget Platform’s mission is to empower AWS Console developers to build the next-generation of console experiences, sharing targeted user experiences (widgets) across consoles and dashboards with minimal effort. To accomplish this our team maintains and enhances a cutting-edge framework and deployment system, leveraging such modern Web technologies as web-components in order to allow these widgets to be built and deployed rapidly and independently.
As an front-end engineer on the team, you will share responsibility for designing, implementing, and enhancing our widget creation framework - empowering AWS console developers to deliver these targeted experiences rapidly and efficiently. If you are passionate about building Web experiences using AWS and open source technologies to help drive the future of the AWS customer experience, we'd love to hear from you!
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About the team
AWS has the most services and more features within those services, than any other cloud provider–from infrastructure technologies like compute, storage, and databases–to emerging technologies, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, data lakes and analytics, and Internet of Things. Whether its Identity features such as access management and sign on, cryptography, console, builder & developer tools, and even projects like automating all of our contractual billing systems, AWS Platform is always innovating with the customer in mind. The AWS Platform team sustains over 750 million transactions per second.
Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren’t focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we’re happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced life—both in and outside of work.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
- Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures and algorithms
- Excellence in technical communication with peers and non-technical cohorts
- 5 years of experience working with modern client side web development technologies:
- HTML5 and Web Standards
- Cascading Style Sheets (including CSS Variables, SASS, LESS, etc)
- Javascript (React, Angular, Ember, Polymer, vanilla, etc)
- 3 years of experience in one modern programming language such as Java, C or Python
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Master's Degree or equivalent experience
- Strong and creative problem solving abilities
- Experience with Agile and Scrum methodologies
- Experience with WCAG 2.0 Accessibility Guidelines
- Experience with Web Component technologies (Custom Elements, Shadow DOM, ES Modules)
- Passion for simplicity and building highly-leveraged, reusable software platforms, components, and APIs
- Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
- Excellence in technical communication with peers and non-technical cohorts
The base pay range for this position is $168,100-250,200/ yr. Pay is based on market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A sign-on payment and restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position offered. Applicants should apply via Amazon's internal or external careers site.
This information is provided per the Colorado Equal Pay Act, the Pay Transparency Regulation of Jersey City Municipal Code, the New York City Human Rights Law. Base pay information is based on market location. Applicants should apply via Amazon's internal or external careers site.
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