Front End Engineer - Mobile, Special Projects

This role is open to Seattle, WA and Milipitas, CA.

Innovators wanted! Are you an entrepreneur? A builder? A dreamer? This role is part of an Amazon Special Projects team that takes the company’s Think Big leadership principle to the extreme. We focus on creating entirely new products and services with a goal of positively impacting the lives of our customers. No industries or subject areas are out of bounds. If you’re interested in innovating at scale to address big challenges in the world, this is the team for you.

Here at Amazon, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have thirteen employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We are constantly learning through programs that are local, regional, and global. 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.

Our team highly values work-life balance, mentorship and career growth. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects and offer training that will challenge you to become your best.

We are a passionate team of doers that apply cutting-edge advances in technology to solve real-world problems and transform our customers’ experiences in ways we can’t even imagine yet. We are looking for a Front End Engineer to join an exciting new project team working to build a completely new, best in class product. Our team is fast paced, highly collaborative and is organized like a startup. As a Front End Engineer, you will be working with a unique and gifted team developing exciting products for customers and collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Key job responsibilities
• Implement best practices in modern software engineering: front-end application design, implementation, testing, version control, documentation, deployment, monitoring and operations
• Translate requirements into robust, efficient, supportable solutions that work well within the overall system architecture
• Write high-quality code and participate in design and code reviews to maintain our development standards
• Work with product and design teams to deliver and operate large scale, distributed services in the cloud
• Generate documentation to support regulatory requirements
• Encourage and support knowledge-sharing within team and external groups
• Mentor junior development engineers
• Implement test automation on all code implemented through unit testing and integration testing

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Seattle, WA, USA

Basic Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- 3+ years industry software development experience with 2+ working on front-end applications
- Experience using modern web development technologies and techniques, including HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, Responsive Design, web services, etc
- React or React Native Experience

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience developing with React Native on iOS and Android mobile platforms.
- Strong computer science fundamentals in design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work well in a team
- 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
- Experience building applications using Amazon web services
- Experience working in a regulated environment with design controls
- Knowledge of Application Security principles and how they impact development and deployment of applications
- Experience building large-scale web applications
- Strong customer focus, ownership, urgency and drive
- Experience with REST architecture for web services
- Experience writing testable code and automating test regressions

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