• Job Description

  Req#: 2516700
  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.
  
  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.
  
  If you have questions or would like to submit a referral, please reach out to Christina LaBella-Chan at labchris@amazon.com.
  
  Key job responsibilities
  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!
  
  About the team
  Work/Life Balance
  Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.
  
  Mentor-ship & Career Growth
  Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentor ship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded Evaluator and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.
  
  Inclusive Team Culture
  Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.
  
  We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
  
  East Palo Alto, CA, USA- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
  - 4+ years of non-internship professional front end, web or mobile software development using JavaScript, HTML and CSS experience
  - Experience using JavaScript frameworks such as angular and react
  - Experience working with HTML5 and Web Standards · Cascading Style Sheets (including CSS Variables, SASS, LESS, etc) · Javascript (React, Angular, Ember, Polymer, vanilla, etc), Typescript, Node- 4+ years of agile software development methodology experience
  - Experience with common front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, JS, TypeScript, and Node
  - · Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience · Strong and creative problem solving abilities · Experience with Agile and Scrum methodologies · Experience with WCAG 2.0 Accessibility Guidelines, 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 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. 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.
  
  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.

• About the company

  Amazon.com, Inc. is an American multinational technology company based in Seattle, Washington, which focuses on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. It is one of the Big Five companies in the U.S. information technology industry, along with Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Facebook. The company has been referred to as "one of the most influential economic and cultural forces in the world", as well as the world's most valuable brand.

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