Front End Engineer - Amazon Lending

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Are you a driven Front End Engineer who wants to have a direct impact on customers and the team? Do you enjoy building flexible, performant and clean new user experiences from the ground up? As a Front End Engineer on Amazon Lending, you will lead designing and building an entirely new Seller Lending customer experience. In this role you will work closely with a talented team of software engineers, product managers, and UX designers to build browser-based and mobile user experiences. You will provide your expertise to determine the best front-end development platforms and frameworks. You will integrate with Amazon services and tools to provide product and marketing managers the ability to experiment and quickly modify customer-facing content. You will instrument software with web analytics to measure success and performance. As the front-end technology expert, you will also help design and implement websites for internal users such as software engineers, research scientists, product managers, credit analysts, and more.

Amazon Lending is passionate about helping third party sellers on Amazon grow their business. Since inception, we have provided billions in capital to small and medium sized businesses. We are a fast-paced development team, using agile methodologies and SOA design patterns. We encourage innovation and expect engineers to take a high level of ownership throughout the software life cycle. We minimize the bureaucracy and focus on giving developers time to develop. Alongside of building new products and services, we are constantly looking to enhance our existing systems by improving performance and refactoring for reuse. There are numerous opportunities to design scalable architectures.

Amazon is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Basic Qualifications
· Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
· 5+ years of overall software development experience, with an emphasis on front end engineering.
· Experience with modern web technologies and techniques such as HTML5, CSS3, CSS frameworks and CSS pre-processors.
· Experience with jQuery, Node.js, JavaScript build tools, and modern JavaScript frameworks such as React, Redux, Ractive, Ember, or Angular, along with the knowledge of when to use them.
· Experience with responsive and mobile design, as well as cross-browser development and testing.
· Experience building rich data-driven web applications by consuming RESTful services and APIs.