Description

Come and build the future with us as we redefine the email communication experience for people and applications!

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is on a mission to revolutionize email experiences for our customers and their end users. We are at the forefront of creating richer, more engaging email functionalities, innovating at every step to provide a seamless, unified experience.

As a Front End Engineer at Amazon Simple Email Service (SES), you will be at the forefront of creating richer, more engaging email customer experience for a vast array of people and applications. Your expertise will be pivotal in driving the design and architecture of user-centric solutions, contributing to our mission to revolutionize email experiences for our customers and their end users.

You will bring a blend of deep technical skills and leadership abilities to influence long-term strategic decisions. Your responsibilities will include translating complex requirements into well-architected, visually appealing solutions in collaboration with Product Managers, UX Designers, and customers. In addition to shaping the system's overall architecture, scalability, and reliability, you'll play a key role in mentoring other engineers and defining the technical direction of our rapidly growing team.

Life/Work Harmony:

Our team places a high value on life-work harmony. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe that striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to lifelong happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between work and personal life.

On-Call Responsibility:

This position involves on-call responsibilities. We don’t like being paged in the middle of the night or on the weekend, so we work to ensure that our systems are fault-tolerant. When we do get paged, we work together to resolve the root cause so that we aren’t paged for the same issue twice.

Inclusive Team Culture:

Inclusive Team Culture Our team is intentional about attracting, developing, and retaining amazing talent from diverse backgrounds. Yes, we do get to build a really cool service, but we also believe a big reason for that is the inclusive and welcoming culture we strive to cultivate every day. We’re looking for a new teammate who is enthusiastic, empathetic, curious, motivated, reliable, and able to work effectively with a diverse team of peers; someone who will help us amplify the positive and inclusive team culture we’ve been building.

About AWS

Diverse Experiences

AWS 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.

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

Applications and Higher Level Abstractions (Apps)

AWS Applications and Higher Level Abstractions (Apps) provides horizontal and industry vertical applications for business users with the same on-demand scalability, reliability, pay-as-you-go pricing, and machine learning expertise that drive AWS services. The AWS Applications group includes services such as Amazon Connect (a cost-effective cloud contact center), our End User Computing (including Amazon Workspaces, AppStream, etc.), Marketing Tech (Amazon Pinpoint), and Autonomous Checkout and Biometric Identity Services (Just Walk Out, Amazon One) for retail, sports, travel, and other verticals.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Dublin, D, IRL

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional front end development. Strong design skills around the user experience.

• Experience in at least one front-end frameworks such as React, Angular, Thyme Leaf, JQuery and experience in working in any UI Test Automation framework.

• Proficient in view layout and rendering technologies (e.g., responsiveness, progressive enhancement, browser/device support).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in a broad range of software design approaches and common UX patterns.

• Experience with large scale web and distributed systems.

• Experience partnering with product or program management teams.

• Experience with AI/ML technologies

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. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need an adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please contact the Applicant-Candidate Accommodation Team (ACAT), Monday through Friday from 7:00 am GMT - 4:00 pm GMT. If calling directly from the United Kingdom, please dial +44 800 086 9884 (tel:+448000869884). If calling from Ireland, please dial +353 1800 851 489 (tel:+3531800851489).