Front End Engineer, API Gateway DX
Amazon.com - Sunnyvale, CA
posted 16 days ago
About the position
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world leader in providing a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers tens of thousands of businesses around the world! Amazon API Gateway, an AWS service, is rapidly changing how every company, from 2-person startups to the largest of the Fortune 100, think about building and delivering serverless and traditional applications in the cloud. API Gateway is the front-door of the Serverless revolution, an approach that lets customers turn business logic and application code into scalable, fault-tolerant production without requiring every developer to become an expert in deployment technologies, and infrastructure management. API Gateway turns daunting tasks such as traffic management, authentication, and authorization, monitoring and API versioning into easily configurable steps. It then helps companies to build their developer eco- and turns their sets and business logic into new revenue streams. We are looking to grow our API Gateway console development team to help design and deliver new customer facing features for our HTTP APIs product and migrate our REST APIs product to the HTTP APIs platform. We acknowledge that there's room for improvement in our customer experience so we're looking for engineers who are customer obsessed. Being customer obsessed will ensure we're delivering a user interface that exceed our customers expectations. We have a modern React JS based code base that leverages AWS component based design system. For this role in specific, our ideal candidate has a deep understanding of browser technology along with ReactJS, Redux, CSS and HTML. Which will enable them to help set the technical direction for our front end solutions.
Responsibilities
- Design and deliver new customer facing features for HTTP APIs product.
- Migrate REST APIs product to the HTTP APIs platform.
- Ensure a user interface that exceeds customer expectations.
- Set the technical direction for front end solutions.
Requirements
- 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.
Nice-to-haves
- 1+ years of agile software development methodology experience.
- Experience with common front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, JS, TypeScript, and Node.
Benefits
- Flexible working hours.
- Mentorship and career growth opportunities.
- Inclusive team culture with employee-led affinity groups.
- Work-life balance emphasis.
