Front End Engineer - Publisher Technologies

Job Description

This is a rare opportunity to start a completely new user experience at Amazon. You will be a foundational member of the team that builds a world-class, green-field user interface for the Amazon Supply-Side Technologies in Advertising.

What is Amazon Advertising?

Amazon Advertising operates at the intersection of eCommerce and advertising, offering a rich array of digital advertising solutions with the goal of helping our customers find and discover anything they want to buy. We help advertisers reach Amazon customers on Amazon.com, across our other owned and operated sites, on other high-quality sites across the web, and on millions of devices (Kindles, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Alexa, mobile, Twitch, and more). We start with the customer and work backwards in everything we do, including advertising. If you’re interested in joining a rapidly growing team working to build a unique, highly respected advertising group with a relentless focus on the customer, you’ve come to the right place.

What does Publisher Services, the hiring team, do?

The Publisher Services team within Amazon Advertising is building the next generation of products and services that will fuel the growth of Amazon’s advertising business. We own the customer-facing facets of Amazon’s Supply Side Technologies, which allow publishers to monetize their on-demand, streaming, and static placements across Amazon’s ad network in a few clicks. Publishers interact directly with our platform, through our website and/or programmatic APIs and get enterprise-grade access to optimize billions of impression opportunities per day.

What is the Publisher Services team looking for?

We want a Front End Engineer (FEE) to build beautiful, interactive, low latency, web-based customer experiences as we grow to become the best Advertising Supply Technologies on the market. You will partner with Senior Software Development Engineers (SDEs) and Senior FEEs to design, evaluate and improve our architecture. As a Front End Engineer you have familiarity with most of this list: HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, Web Components, and at least one view framework (e.g., Angular.js, React.js, Vue.js). You should also be familiar with, have a view on when to use, and be comfortable implementing server-side rendering related technologies (e.g. Spring MVC, Next.js, Django).

Key Responsibilities

• Designing and developing full-stack solutions and user experiences that impact many areas of our business.
• Work with our customers to define requirements, create software designs, and implement code to these specifications.
• Provide thorough unit and integration testing, and support products while deployed and used by our stakeholders.

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.

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