Front-End Engineer II, Prime Gaming

Job Description

Amazon is all in on games, and Prime Gaming is building experiences to delight Amazon Prime customers and gamers across the globe. In this role, you join a team focused on building services and front-end experiences that deliver joy to Prime members through free games, Twitch benefits, and new disruptive game benefits experiments. We’re building experiences that fundamentally shape and improve the Prime experience for millions of customers, and every day we learn more about what it is that makes people fall in love with video games.

Key Responsibilities

• Help define front-end architectures, own and implement specific components, and help shape the overall user experience.
• Contribute to defining best practices for front-end development.
• Collaborate closely with UX Designers, Product Managers, and generalist Software Development Engineers on the same team to help deliver the product.
• Contribute to planning, design, implementation, testing, operations, and process improvement as a member of an autonomous team.
• Take responsibility for technical problem-solving, creatively meeting product goals, and developing best practices.
• Design and develop React-based web applications and leverage component libraries.
• Write high-quality, efficient, testable code in React JS.
• Mentor and support the growth of other developers.

About The Team

Amazon Games applies the principles of Amazonian culture to the world of game design. We have a diverse team of talented, creative people pairing their love of making games with the unique strengths that come with being part of Amazon. Across all of our teams and locations, we are united by a common purpose: to share great gaming experiences with customers around the world. We believe in a future where everyone is a gamer and everyone can create, compete, collaborate, and connect through games, and we are looking for the right people to help us build that future. With the power of Twitch and AWS at your fingertips, you will have the chance to innovate in gameplay, creativity, marketing, and technology, while working alongside some of the smartest and most creative minds in the industry.

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 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.