Amazon’s India Ad Tech organization is seeking a Software Engineer with front-end experience to join our team and work on our Ads Tech Stack, creating experiences for advertisers. Join an innovative and passionate team dedicated to building a successful, sustainable, and strategic international business for Amazon from the ground up. You will thrive in this role if you are an organized self-starter who can quickly learn new technologies and excel in a fast-paced environment.
Are you passionate solving user interface and UX problems in a large scale environment? Do you want to be a part of a fast-paced organization and contribute to one of the most visited sites on the Internet? As a key contributor and partner in this position, you will develop Amazon website features and front-end widgets that drive sales for advertisers. You should be highly skilled in front-end development, resourceful, customer-focused, team-oriented, and able to work independently under time constraints to meet deadlines. You will collaborate closely with product managers, program managers, SDEs, and UI engineers to build data engineering solutions and develop comprehensive front-end widgets for the India Ad business.
You will have comprehensive understanding of the current state (and future) of web technology with a critical awareness of implications on user-centered design. You understand that some designs have to be experienced in order to be understood and are capable of building rapid prototypes and presenting them to internal and external stakeholders. You feel comfortable reading, writing, and reviewing vanilla JavaScript both on the client and server, as well as building your own libraries.
You are customer-obsessed, detail-oriented, comfortable working with highly technical teams and are skilled in using data and insights to make decisions. You are a leader in the never-ending process of improving your team standards, writing documentation, and able to handle multiple projects in a fast-paced environment with a high-level of autonomy. You can translate business requirements into bar raising customer experiences by thinking from a customer’s perspective and setting relentlessly high standards for yourself and your team.
Here are some things that we’re looking for:
· Proven web development experience across multiple devices, web-views and browsers
· Proven ability to simplify complex problems into intuitive and elegant experiences
· Ability to deliver functional prototypes on new devices
· Ability to communicate complex concepts clearly and persuasively across different audiences and varying levels of the organization
· Ability to participate in the full lifecycle of design and development — including ideation, prototyping, development, backwards compatibility, fail-overs, validation, and user-testing
Basic Qualifications 1+ years of Software Dev experience. Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field Computer Science fundamentals in OO design, functional programming, data structure, and algorithm design Experience with front-end languages, libraries, and rendering technologies (e.g. JavaScript, HTML, CSS) Knowledge of front-end fundamentals (e.g. client vs. server rendering)
Preferred qualifications* Experience with Node.js and one or more front-end frameworks (e.g. React, Angular, Bootstrap) Experience creating reusable coded front-end components Experience creating application UIs Experience with modern web technologies and techniques such as HTML5, CSS3, ECMAScript 2016, CSS pre-processors (SASS, Less, Stylus), JavaScript transpilers (Babel, CoffeeScript, TypeScript), and JavaScript build tools (Browserify, WebPack, Grunt, Gulp)
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Bangalore, KA, IND
- 1+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
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