Sr. Front End Engineer, Amazon Shopping Videos (Ads)

Amazon.com, Inc.•Culver City, CA

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About The Position

Amazon Live, part of Amazon Shopping Videos (ASV) is one of the fastest growing strategic programs at Amazon. We are a young group whose mission is to entertain and inspire Amazon customers through Live video streaming as they shop, enabling them to learn more about products while connect them with social influencers and content creators. As a senior engineer on the Amazon Live Core Services team, you will develop a best in class video processing and content viewing experience across mobile and desktop. You will build and maintain critical live broadcast pipelines that power compelling CX features World Wide. This team owns and manages 1) the AWS IVS backed video stack(Backend) 2) video playback experiences(Frontend), and 3) Customer-facing interactivity features such as Chat, Follow, Shop etc. , think of the full Tiktok Live shopping experience. You will spend most of your effort on frontend technologies(React, React Native) and integrations to our systems. This is an excellent opportunity for an engineer who likes to deliver in a fast-paced environment to demonstrate impact that will enable the explosive growth of video in Amazon. You'll work with a cross-disciplinary team to design and implement Video experiences. Self-driven engineers will enjoy the autonomy to impact millions of customers regularly.

Requirements

4+ years of non-internship professional front end, web or mobile software development using JavaScript, HTML and CSS experience
5+ years of front-end developer creating prototypes or wire-frames for enterprise web applications or workflows experience
Experience developing with MVC/MVM frameworks (e.g. React.JS, AngularJS, Vue)

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of web services technologies such as SOAP, HTTP, WSDL, XSD, and REST
Experience in a broad range of software design approaches and common UX patterns.

Responsibilities

Build lovable, fluid customer experiences to delight customers to view videos and shop as they watch videos working with a cross-functional group of Engineers, UX + Product team, Marketing, Applied Scientists.
Lead a group of Engineers on complex front-end projects that millions of Amazon Customers interact with every day.
Expertise in modern frontend architecture patterns, state management, and component-based design.
Experience with design system implementation and component libraries.
Experience with performance optimization for high-frequency UI updates and complex state changes.
Knowledge of accessibility standards and internationalization best practices.
Work on a wide breadth of tech (optimize video recommendations, build low-latency rendering systems and responsive, modern CX)

Benefits

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136,700/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261,500/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.

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