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Amazon's Fulfillment Technologies is seeking enthusiastic and talented Front End Engineer to help innovate, architect, design and build highly available, scalable and real time applications. As the world’s largest fulfillment operations handling group, we obsess for innovation in simplifying these operations. One of the most challenging aspects of day-to-day fulfillment center operations is improving fulfillment center (FC) associates experience by building better tools to handle their tasks.

We are looking for candidates with strong obsession towards building a unified platform that enhances the users ability to bring engineering excellence to what engineers do. You will get a chance to build the automations around Amazing scale of high impact software systems and operations. And the best part? We are on the cutting-edge of technology for order fulfillment across the globe, and there are no textbook solutions for the challenges we take on to build and implement them. There are so many opportunities to innovate, invent on behalf of our users and simplify the operational processes for improving the FCs operability and FC associates productivity - it is still Day One.

As a member of the team, you will get the opportunity to work on highly visible, innovative projects that directly impact thousands of associates working in Amazon fulfillment centers worldwide. You will be involved in all aspects of the software development cycle with focus on web development including scoping, design, implementation, testing & delivery of your products as well as setting the vision and future roadmap. You would be responsible for implementing technology solutions that can scale at the rapidly growing pace of our customer and partner community. You will help to shape product vision and quickly iterate on front-end interfaces and have a working knowledge of back-end data handling. You consider usability, accessibility, and performance in the products you build and work backward from the customer to anticipate their needs. You leverage your knowledge of the nuances, pitfalls and strengths of the various front-end development frameworks and associated best practices.

Key job responsibilities

As a Front End Engineer, you will:

• Actively participate in overall product strategy and UI presentation.

• Be involved in every aspect of the UI for new features – from idea generation, exploring different design options, and technical design through software development using the latest technologies and design patterns.

• Collaborate with Software Development Engineers, Product Managers, UX Designers to ensure the best experience for our customers.

• Design highly functional and lovable UI. The software must be well tested and high quality.

• The UI must be compliant with accessibility standards set at Amazon.

A day in the life

As an FEE in the Safety and Compliance organization, you will play a critical role in achieving our Amazon leadership principles ‘Strive to be the Earth’s Best Employer’ and ‘Success and Scale Bring Broad Responsibility’ by helping deliver a world-class systems that ensure safe and compliant processing of inventory through their lifecycle at Amazon. Our systems are cloud native AWS enterprise web applications supporting a large global user base. Our organization is comprised of multiple teams each responsible for supporting and delivering key products. Our engineer teams are agile based, supported by agile ceremonies (daily start-up, grooming, sprint planning, demos, and retrospectives).

About the team

Amazon Fulfillment Technologies (AFT) powers Amazon’s global fulfillment network. We invent and deliver software, hardware, and data science solutions that orchestrate processes, robots, machines, and people. We harmonize the physical and virtual world so Amazon customers can get what they want, when they want it.

AFT Safety and Compliance (AFT S&C) org owns products that identify, track, and mitigate EHS concerns as well as Supply Chain Compliance systems that enable the end-to-end execution of regulations for all compliance programs and waste management. Our vision is to empower Amazon businesses to define and implement regulatory and operational standards, measure compliance with those requirements, and quantify potential risks through our centralized and closed loop systems.

Basic Qualifications

• 2+ years of non-internship professional front end, web or mobile software development using JavaScript, HTML and CSS experience

• 1+ years of computer science fundamentals (object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving and complexity analysis) experience

• Experience with object-oriented design

• Experience using JavaScript frameworks such as angular and react

Preferred Qualifications

• 1+ years of agile software development methodology experience

• Experience with common front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, JS, TypeScript, and Node

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.