DESCRIPTION We are on the hunt for an engineer with a passion for crafting exceptional social sharing features at Amazon. The ideal candidate will enhance the simplicity and intuitiveness of our sharing interface, ensuring that users not only share content effortlessly but also enjoy a personalized sharing experience. Your expertise will be pivotal in integrating enhanced previews, tailoring content recommendations based on user sharing data, and elevating the overall user experience. This role is a unique opportunity to influence how users connect, share, and discover content, making each interaction within our platform more engaging and personalized in a dynamic online environment.
We are on a mission to empower customers to meaningfully connect over discovery by enabling easy, impactful sharing across Amazon and beyond. Whether helping someone find the perfect gift or get expert advice, sharing creates communities of customers helping each other. Your work will directly help customers discover new items to buy and get social validation from sharing behaviors.
As an Engineer, you'll be taking a leadership role in defining and delivering the future of sharing on Amazon.You'll collaborate closely with UX designers and product managers to optimize the sharing journey and eliminate any friction. You'll also explore new opportunities to leverage valuable sharing data for social proofing and improved recommendations.
By joining our global, growing team, you'll help shape the future of social shopping experiences on Amazon while developing your leadership skills. If you want to make a meaningful impact with your technical skills at a large-scale, this is the role for you.
A day in the life
On a day-to-day basis, you'll evaluate new sharing opportunities, define technical solutions, and manage deliverables. You'll also mentor more junior engineers, influence architecture decisions, and present your work to senior leadership.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Seattle, WA, USA BASIC QUALIFICATIONS - 5+ 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, AngularJS, Vue)
- Experience in a broad range of software design approaches and common UX patterns.
- Experience collaborating with product managers, developers, and other stakeholders
