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Amazon Senior Front-End Engineer, AWS Industry Products, Manufacturing, Healthcare and Life Sciences in London, United Kingdom
Description
The AWS Industry Products (AIP) team directly collaborates with strategic customers on game-changing emerging technologies, building new industry-specific products to directly impact and transform industries at AWS scale. AIP products focus on delivering customer value by reducing the complexity and expertise required to build and operate modern digital industries on AWS. Simply put, our goal is to use the skill and scale of AWS to make the benefits of a connected world achievable for all businesses. We work closely with strategic customers to bring their domain expertise and our digital and innovation experience to solve industry-wide challenges on AWS.
You will get to solve some of the most challenging problems in the world work with industry leaders across multiple verticals such as consumer, industrial, chemical, cosmetic, automotive, etc. If you can touch it, it has been manufactured!
Our technical challenges involve back-end software engineering, edge computing, applied science, and front-end application development. We need to develop and apply quantitative algorithms (e.g. machine learning, computer vision, network optimization) to make industry process analysis relevant and actionable for operations engineers. We build software and information systems to process massive scale operational data, infer information relationship across complex systems, train decision models and apply them to critical operations at industrial scale. We work very closely with innovative, market leading customers to drive effective digital transformation of entire industries and the supply chains that support them.
As a member of the team, you can have a huge impact on everything from the functionality we deliver for our customers, to the design and architecture of our systems, to the algorithms we employ, to the culture we build. We also look for engineers that are obsessed with customer success, passionate about simplification and design-thinking and excited to dive deep into the growth opportunity of delivering new product categories to new customer types in the manufacturing and industrial solutions space.
Key job responsibilities
The Senior Front-End Engineer (FEE) will lead long-term architecture, design and development efforts, as well as operations of AWS Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions for Manufacturing, Healthcare and Life Sciences, influencing teams across AIP and AWS in multiple disciplines including product management, User Experience (UX) design and research, backend services, data science, solution architecture, application and information security, among others.
The Senior FEE will collaborate with other engineers, data scientists and technical leaders to define the technology strategy, balancing shorter-term constraints with current and future business needs, demonstrating and fostering adoption of best practices throughout the software development lifecycle, from UX and software architecture and design patterns, through to prototyping, coding, testing, deployment and integration, to monitoring, maintenance and support.
The Senior FEE will ensure the team grows by training, mentoring, recruiting, assessing and providing career guidance to less experienced engineers.
A day in the life
Work to understand customer problems and pain points, delivering working solutions that consider short and long-term perspectives and make technical tradeoffs
Drive productive and inclusive discussions among engineering teams, product managers, UX designers and technologies, solution architects and customers
Coach and mentor engineers
Sales, Marketing and Global Services (SMGS)
AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector.
About the team
Diverse Experiences
Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred 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.
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 flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
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 and 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.
Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.
AWS Solutions
As part of the AWS solutions organization, we have a vision to provide business applications, leveraging Amazon's unique experience and expertise, that are used by millions of companies worldwide to manage day-to-day operations. We will accomplish this by accelerating our customers' businesses through delivery of intuitive and differentiated technology solutions that solve enduring business challenges. we blend vision with curiosity and Amazon's real-world experience to build opinionated, turnkey solutions. Where customers prefer to buy over build, we become their trusted partner with solutions that are no-brainers to buy and easy to use.
Basic Qualifications
Experience as a front-end developer creating prototypes or wire-frames for enterprise web applications or workflows
Experience developing with MVC/MVM frameworks (e.g. React.JS, AngularJS, Vue)
Experience (non-internship) in professional front end, web or mobile software development using JavaScript, HTML and CSS
Preferred Qualifications
Knowledge of web services technologies such as SOAP, HTTP, WSDL, XSD, and REST
Experience in a broad range of software design approaches and common UX patterns.
Experience with micro-front-end and backend-for-front-end frameworks, and graphQL
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