Front End Engineer, Amazon Advertising ID-12762

April 25, 2025

About the position

Amazon Worldwide Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses. Ads Self-serve Products for Experience and Developer productivity team drives a coherent experience across Amazon Ads Console for all endemic and non-endemic advertisers and their agencies using Amazon's marketing portfolio to grow their business and brands on and off Amazon. We enable Ad application builders across every product development cycle stage - from decisions to build, to launch and ongoing product health monitoring and troubleshooting. We have three programs - Ads Portal Foundation Systems (Ads Portal Framework, Ads Portal Permission Delegation), Ads Portal Common Experience Systems (Ads Portal Navigation, Ads Notifications. Our foundation charter builds common features that form the home for all Amazon Ads products and applications. It accelerates federated innovation and enables all builders to ship applications for customers globally while keeping the overall Ads Portal experience familiar. Experience charter builds and enhances marketer experiences across Ads Portal. We are looking for an experienced Front End Engineer who is capable of breaking down and solving complex problems, and have a strong will to get things done! A Front End Engineer at Amazon works on world problems on a global scale. They own their products end to end and influence the direction of our product and technology which impacts hundreds of millions customers around the world. You are a hands-on, pragmatic problem solver that easily balances trade-offs between competing interests. You thrive in a fast-moving team environment where you are able to juggle complex dependencies and requirements while producing optimal solutions. Ambiguity and creativity are both expected and the norm. This unique opportunity puts you in the driver's seat to improve the efficiency and experience for our internal and external customers.

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Responsibilities

Leading ambiguous and undefined problems to resolution in the face of uncertainty.
Thinking big and working with leadership team, business stakeholders and software engineering teams to define vision, strategy and requirements.
Delivering results by driving execution of programs spanning multiple organizations from strategy to rollout.
Earning trust through regular communication with senior management on status, risks and change control.
Effectively cooperate with customers, technical staff and leaders, business leaders and executives in different geographical locations to define and deliver complex features.
Ability to make sense of ambiguity, define and plan programs in a fast paced and highly-technical organization, and secure buy in from internal and external stakeholders.
Effectively manage cross functional initiatives, dependencies and bottlenecks, provide escalations management, anticipate and make tradeoffs, balance the business need versus technical constraints and minimize business benefit while building great customer experience.
Be an effective collaborator in a cross functional team of SDMs, TPMs, PMs, FEEs, SDEs, Scientists, and PEs.
Own all operational metrics for your product.

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

Equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package.
Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.

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