Job summary
We are looking for creative web development engineers to join Amazon’s Brand Innovation Lab. You will work on high profile advertising campaigns that span countries such as the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, and Japan.

Your work looks to push the boundaries of what is possible in the browser and on Amazon. Your work will be featured across Amazon’s mobile shopping app, Fire Tablet, desktop, and Fire TV properties and used by shopping customers across the globe.

You will own the estimating and building of new Amazon landing pages. You will use modern and established web development technologies such as ReactJS, Webpack, Eslint, Postcss and more. You will use these technologies and a solid understanding of HTML, CSS and JavaScript to create performant and accessible web page experiences.

You will work together with designers, design technologists and program managers to define, estimate and deliver the advertising campaigns which feature the web pages you build.

Key job responsibilities

• Estimate how to build user interfaces for the web
• Clarify requirements with designers and program managers
• Deliver high-quality projects, using modern front-end development technologies

A day in the life

• Attend your team’s stand-up
• Clarify design elements in the user interface you are building
• Update your project’s code-base, defining and editing ReactJS components and associated styling rules.
• Test your code across browsers
• Address any bugs found by our Quality Assurance (QA) team

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Links to a portfolio, live projects or code repos for professional work where you owned a significant amount of the development.
• 3+ years of professional experience building and supporting customer-facing UX across multiple devices, webviews, and browsers in a web tech stack (HTML, CSS, JS).
• Experience using React or a comparable JS framework like Vue, Ember or Meteor to build responsive/adaptive, component-based UI.
• Experience using JS libraries like ThreeJS and GreenSock to create and animate graphics within a 2D and 3D UI.
• Experience using JS APIs to retrieve and parse XML/JSON data from a server.
• Understanding of client-side performance and how to mitigate latency issues.
• Ability and interest in participating in the full campaign development lifecycle -- including scoping of effort, parsing requirements, web development, code reviews, and testing across browsers and devices.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and analytical skills.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience in advertising.
• Experience communicating requirements and technical designs with users, other technical/non-technical teams and management.
• Experience influencing software engineering approaches and culture within your team.
• Experience with Amazon Web Services.
• Desire to learn new technologies and systems.
• Strong sense of ownership and drive.
• Sharp problem solving skills and ability to convert ambiguous requirements to structured solutions and actions.