Front-End Engineer, GenAI, Amazon

Amazon; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Front-End Engineer to join their growing advertising division. This role involves building innovative customer-facing features and mentors junior team members, utilizing technologies like React and AWS. The ideal candidate is experienced in agile methodologies and various front-end technologies, ready to help enhance Amazon's creative solutions.

Qualifications

• 1+ years of agile software development methodology experience.
• Experience with common front-end technologies including HTML, CSS, JS, TypeScript, and Node.

Responsibilities

• Solve technical challenges and mentor junior engineers.
• Translate business requirements into deliverables and develop prototypes.
• Invent new features and deploy scalable and reliable distributed services.

Skills

HTML

CSS

JavaScript

TypeScript

Node

React

Agile Methodology

Tools

AWS

Job description

Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses. Amazon's advertising portfolio helps merchants, retail vendors, and brand owners succeed via native advertising, which grows incremental sales of their products sold through Amazon. The primary goals are to help shoppers discover new products they love, be the most efficient way for advertisers to meet their business objectives, and build a sustainable business that continuously innovates on behalf of customers. Our products and solutions are strategically important to enable our Retail and Marketplace businesses to drive long-term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks and break fresh ground in product and technical innovations every day!

The Creative X org within Amazon Advertising aims to democratize access to high-quality creative assets, including copy, images, and video, by building and productizing generative AI-driven tools for advertisers. We are investing in latent-diffusion and DiT models, LLMs, computer vision, reinforcement learning, and image + video synthesis. The solutions we develop will be deployed for use by self-service advertisers and agencies, as well as available to premium brands that advertise on Amazon.

We are seeking an experienced Front-End Engineer who is adept at a variety of skills, that enable the productization of Generative AI experiences for advertising at scale.

Every member of the team is expected to build customer (advertiser) facing features, contribute to the collaborative spirit within the team, productize, deploy at scale, and bring cutting edge production-grade experiences to raise the bar within the team.

Key job responsibilities

• As a Front-End Engineer, you will solve technical challenges and act as a mentor to other junior engineers.
• Given that this is an early-stage initiative, you'll play an active role in translating business and functional requirements into concrete deliverables and build quick prototypes or proofs of concept in partnership with other technology leaders within the team.
• You will help invent new features, design, develop and deploy highly scalable and reliable distributed services.
• You will work with a variety of core languages (primarily React, etc.) and technologies (AWS).
• You will work closely with Product Managers, Engineers, and Applied Scientists.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 1+ years of agile software development methodology experience
• Experience with common front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, JS, TypeScript, and Node

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

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