Dublin, IRL
3 days ago
Front End Engineer, DynamoDB
Description Are you interested in building operational interfaces to support some of the largest distributed systems in the world? Do you want to revolutionize the way people view and manage huge volumes of data? On the Amazon DynamoDB team, our mission is to provide customers with best-in-class cloud data services to store, query, and analyze the enormous datasets that their businesses generate. We build distributed storage, index, and query systems that are scalable, fault tolerant, low cost, and easy to manage and use. These are exciting times—we are building an elite team of developers in Dublin to work on ambitious initiatives to keep pace with the global demand for DynamoDB. We are currently looking for an expert front-end engineer with a strong user-experience background to build operational user interfaces for our customers. We are looking for smart, motivated engineers who are passionate about delivering a world-class customer experience. If you have the skills for building high-performance, customer-friendly products that delight customers, and you are interested in cutting-edge cloud computing, this might be the job for you. Successful candidates for this position should have a strong background in building web applications using current technologies such as HTML5, JavaScript, CSS, and web UI frameworks such as jQuery, React, and Flux. Experience working with web services and JSON services is desired. Equally important to these specific skills are a candidate's ability to multitask, quickly adapt to new development environments and changing business requirements, learn new systems, create reliable and maintainable code, and find creative and scalable solutions to difficult problems. AWS is a unique place where you can design and build innovative technologies in a very large distributed-computing environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry. Key job responsibilities Position responsibilities: - Drive the architecture and technology roadmap and execution for key DynamoDB services - Define functional and technical feature epics and user stories, and translate them into detailed solution architecture - Code and test system components, and lead code and design reviews - Deliver and operate highly available, scalable, low-latency services in production - Be responsible for the overall system architecture, scalability, reliability, and performance - Mentor other engineers, define the technical culture, and help grow the team. About the team About AWS Diverse Experiences AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying. Why AWS? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses. Inclusive Team Culture Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness. Mentorship & Career Growth We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional. Work/Life Balance We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud. About the team Utility Computing (UC) AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services. Basic Qualifications - Experience (non-internship) in professional front end, web or mobile software development using JavaScript, HTML and CSS - Experience in computer science fundamentals (object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving and complexity analysis) - Experience using JavaScript frameworks such as angular and react Preferred Qualifications - Experience in agile software development methodology - Experience with common front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, JS, TypeScript, and Node Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. 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