Front-End Engineer – EC2 Console needed at Amazon Web Services

DESCRIPTION

• The Amazon EC2 team is seeking a Front-End Engineer to create beautiful customer facing products and innovate to improve experiences for millions of users. The EC2 Console Development team is based in Cape Town, South Africa and builds and operates the web-based EC2 Console, one of the most widely used AWS consoles.
• Our mission is to enable our customers to learn, build, deploy, monitor and manage their EC2 infrastructure. We use rich data drawn from customer and product research as well as real time analytics to monitor and anticipate our customers’ needs. We then design and build innovative solutions for our customers using the latest web based technologies.

• In this role, you will develop new features and improvements for the EC2 console, working with your team, product managers and UX designers to build web-based products that delight our customers. You will own customer facing features through the entire life-cycle, from design, implementation, testing, deployment and into production. You will work to optimize applications for performance and reliability.
• In your first few months in the EC2 Console, you will design and develop new features in our React environment to build familiarity with our domain and you’ll join your team’s on-call rotation, helping to support the console and improve our tooling and monitoring systems.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years of non-internship professional front end, web or mobile software development using JavaScript, HTML and CSS experience
• Experience in computer science fundamentals (object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving and complexity analysis)
• Experience using JavaScript frameworks such as angular and react

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience in agile software development methodology
• Experience with common front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, JS, TypeScript, and Node