Sr. Front-End Engineer, Autos

Position: Sr. Front-End Engineer, Amazon Autos
Location: New York

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DESCRIPTION:

Interested in building something new? Join the Amazon Autos team on an exhilarating journey to redefine the vehicle shopping experience. This is an opportunity to be part of the Amazon's new  business ventures. Our goal is to create innovative automotive discovery and shopping experiences on Amazon, providing customers with greater convenience and a wider selection. You'll work in a creative, fast-paced, and entrepreneurial environment at the center of Amazon's innovation.

We're looking for a talented Sr.Front-End Engineer to lead UI development, collaborate with product managers, UX designers, UX researchers , Scientists and SDEs to design, develop, and test innovative automotive-shopping experiences for our customers. You will enjoy a fast-paced environment where you can obsess over customers by creating intuitive customer journey in  and mobile apps.

If you're enthusiastic about innovating and delivering exceptional shopping experiences to customers, thrive on new challenges, and excel at solving complex user experience problems using latest UX Patterns,  Machine Learning, Gen AI, then you're the perfect candidate for this role. Strong business acumen and interpersonal skills are a must, as you'll work closely with business owners to understand customer needs and design scalable solutions.

Key job responsibilities

* Define scalable front end architectures, own and implement specific components, and help shape the overall user experience

* Define best practices for front end development

* Collaborate closely with UX Designers, Product Managers, Science and generalist Software Development Engineers to deliver the product.

* Lead planning, design, implementation, testing, operations, and process improvement

* Take responsibility for technical problem-solving, creatively meeting product goals, and developing best practices.

* You will design and develop wide variety of front-end technologies, web applications and mobile apps

* Mentor and support the growth of other engineers.

A day in the life
In this role, you will be part of a multidisciplinary team working on one of Amazon's newest business ventures. As a key member, you will collaborate closely with engineering, product, design, operations, and business development to bring innovative solutions to our customers.
Your engineering expertise will be leveraged to research and deliver novel solutions to existing problems, explore emerging problem spaces, and create new knowledge. You will invent and apply state-of-the-art technologies, UX design patterns, machine learning  to build next-generation solutions for millions of Amazon customers.

About the team
This is a critical role for a newly formed team with a vision to create innovative automotive discovery and shopping experiences on Amazon, providing customers better convenience and more selection. We're collaborating with other experienced teams at Amazon to define the future of how customers research and shop for cars online.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

- 4+ years of non-internship professional front end, web or mobile software development using JavaScript, HTML and CSS experience
- 5+ years of front-end developer creating prototypes or wire-frames for enterprise web applications or workflows experience
- Experience developing with MVC/MVM frameworks (e.g. React.

JS, Angular

JS, Vue)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

- Knowledge of web services technologies such as SOAP, HTTP, WSDL, XSD, and REST
- Experience in a broad range of software design approaches and common UX patterns.

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