Senior Design Technologist: Prototyping at Scale

Amazon Web Services (AWS); New York (NY); On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in New York, NY is seeking an experienced Design Technologist to bridge design and engineering.

You will deliver innovative, production-ready design solutions that address complex challenges at scale and turn concepts into functional prototypes and production-ready experiences that delight customers. You will work at the intersection of design, research, and engineering, collaborating with UX designers, researchers, and software engineers to bring designs to

Qualifications

• 7+ years of front-end technologist, engineer, or UX prototyper experience.
• Have coding samples in front end programming languages.
• Experience developing visually polished, engaging, and highly fluid UX prototypes.
• Experience collaborating with UX, Product, and technical partners.
• 6+ years of participating in the complete product development lifecycle of successfully launched applications experience.

Responsibilities

• Deliver innovative design solutions that address complex UX challenges through code and technical implementation.
• Proactively identify UX problems and opportunities to improve the customer experience.
• Build high-fidelity, functional prototypes that communicate design intent and validate concepts with real interactions.
• Adapt and extend industry prototyping tools to large-scale use cases unique to our products.
• Guide future UX choices by demonstrating what's technically possible through working prototypes.
• Present design solutions and technical approaches to management and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Collaborate closely with UX designers, UX researchers, and software engineers to bring designs to life.
• Develop production-ready front-end code that meets engineering standards for performance, accessibility, and scalability.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and frameworks to advance the team's prototyping and development capabilities.
• Mentor other designers and engineers on design-technology best practices.

Skills

Front-end development

UX prototyping

Collaboration

Code samples

Prototyping tools

Tools

ElasticSearch

Redshift

DynamoDB

ML tools

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in New York, NY is seeking an experienced Design Technologist to bridge design and engineering.

You will deliver innovative, production-ready design solutions that address complex challenges at scale and turn concepts into functional prototypes and production-ready experiences that delight customers. You will work at the intersection of design, research, and engineering, collaborating with UX designers, researchers, and software engineers to bring designs to