Amazon’s Selection Contribution Platform (SCP) team are looking for a passionate, talented and super-smart front end engineer who innovates, loves solving hard problems and never takes no for an answer to join our growing team in London. Central to Amazon’s retail business, our high scale distributed systems hold the largest product catalog in the world, manage data ingestion and processing from millions of external data contributors, Amazons own retail catalog, and Amazon internal customers including Kindle, Prime Video and Alexa. We drive Amazons growth by delivering innovative user experiences and technical solutions that help drive up product selection for our customers, and continue to facilitate year on year growth in this dynamic, fast paced, ever growing business. We exist on the cutting edge of technical possibilities, pushing the boundaries of architectural thinking and user experience design; We leverage the best of technology from across the industry, use the latest cloud computing technologies from AWS, where we help drive innovation for the benefit of Amazon and third party customers alike. Come and join our journey...

What you’ll do
As a front end engineer in Amazon, you are expected to solve difficult front-end engineering problems, applying appropriate technologies, UX patterns and best practices to ensure you and your team can deliver at speed. You work with your team to invent, design, and build software that is stable, performant, secure, and accessible in order to address the customers needs.

A successful candidate will have a strong front end development background and be able to deliver innovative solutions which solve problems for a wide range of business users. Daily work will involve working with a development team on multiple product features, helping other engineers get to grips with front end engineering and looking to improve the front end space across the department.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
· Significant experience as a front-end developer or web technologist role
· Strong knowledge of web technologies including: HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript, XML, JSON, React/Angular, web and server programming
· Passion to design and develop intuitive user interfaces
· Ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast paced environment
· Strong customer focus with ability to translate user requirements into good design
· Sound business judgment, proven ability to influence others and strong analytical thinking skills
· Entrepreneurial spirit and willingness to have fun!

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· Masters in Computer Science or a related technical discipline
· Experience mentoring junior software engineers to improve their skills and make them more effective, product software engineer