Front End Engineer

Job description

DESCRIPTION

More and more enterprise companies are moving to the cloud so they can focus on business instead of technical debt. It's a critical time for cloud providers, and Amazon Web Services is investing in making sure we continue to offer the world's best customer experience for these complex migrations.

If the idea of accelerating a historic shift in technology excites you, apply to join us in the AWS Migration Services group in Boston's Seaport District. We are expanding by adding a new team to build a brand new service, and looking for talented engineers obsessed with customer experience and operational excellence.

As a Front End Engineer in this office, you will help to design and build services that make it easier for large enterprises to migrate and manage their computing to AWS. Delivering a reliable and high-performance service at AWS scale requires engineers with extraordinary technical expertise and boundless creativity. At Amazon, we also expect engineers like you to interact with customers, to understand our business goals, and to innovate rapidly, delivering high-quality and ground-breaking functionality.

What does it take to thrive as a developer at AWS? You need to be creative, curious, responsible, and able to work with others to rapidly turn an idea into working code. You’re excited about writing code, implementing big ideas, and working with a team of talented engineers. You want the opportunity to grow your technical and professional skills while helping AWS grow. You relish the opportunity to dig into complex operational issues and to help customers build the next generation of web applications. You’re someone who knows how to work hard and deliver results but is also able to have fun while they are doing it.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· A passion for creating beautiful, engaging, intuitive, efficient and highly usable user interfaces
· Experience with vector and motion graphics, including SVG, HTML5 Canvas, WebGL (ThreeJS) and animation via JavaScript and CSS
· Familiarity with real-time communication mechanisms such as WebSockets and WebRTC
· Familiar emerging trends in desktop, web, and mobile app development

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

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience ·
· 5+ years of overall software development experience, with an emphasis on web applications
· Experience building rich data-driven web applications
· Experience with modern web technologies and techniques such as HTML5, CSS3, ECMAScript 2016, CSS pre-processors (SASS, Less, Stylus), JavaScript transpilers (Babel, CoffeeScript, TypeScript), and JavaScript build tools (Browserify, WebPack, Grunt, Gulp)
· Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks and libraries such as React, Redux, Ractive, Ember, or Angular, along with the knowledge of when to use them · Experience with Node.js and the NPM package ecosystem