Front End Engineer, Genesis

DESCRIPTION

We are responsible for creating hiring solutions for millions of applicants and future Amazonians. Amazon has 1.2M employees worldwide with plans for continued growth. Here, you'll be part of a team that builds scalable, international solutions impacting unprecedented number of candidate experiences. We create global solutions that not only scale up in volume, but also handle the complexity of diverse workflows and country specific rules/regulations. Our team is growing rapidly at multiple locations. If you have the drive, tenacity, an entrepreneurial spirit, and most importantly the day 1 spark to take on ambiguous problems head on, in a fast-paced environment, this is the place for you!

Key job responsibilities

As part of our growth and expansion, we are setting up brand new teams to build end-to-end hiring solutions on Native AWS from ground up. This solution will handle all phases of hiring process from job creation, search, and application to all the way candidate Day 1 experience.

As a Front End Engineer, you will drive the development of services and assets for an external facing, mobile first, global solution that will be used by millions of applicants aspiring to work at Amazon. You will own automation of business processes using proven as well as evolving AWS services and other technologies to create a friction free customer experience. Your tier-one services will have highest standards and be available 24x7, scale under massive load, and perform consistently.

In this role you will:

• Be a technical leader that is not afraid to challenge the norms and innovate.

• Execute against project plans and delivery commitments.

• Develop relationships with internal and external partner teams to move fast.

• Help establish the long-term success strategy for your systems, development best practices, and operational excellence processes.

• Collaborate with peers to ensure your strategies are in alignment with the rest of the development teams.

• Develop junior and new team members by mentoring them on multiple fronts.

About the team

We are a team of 8-10 engineers who work together to design and deliver a system that enables candidates who wants to work for Amazon find a job.

We are very focused on ensuring that we enable a great candidate experience.

Our customers are the candidates themselves who we help through the hiring process.

We also work directly with the internal workforce staffing team, data scientists, and other hiring systems to ensure a great candidate experience.

We find new ways to use automation to help the hiring process move faster, smoother, and smarter.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Arlington, VA, USA

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. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.