Senior Design Technologist: UX & Front-End Prototyping

Amazon; 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 is seeking an experienced Sr Design Technologist to bridge design and engineering at scale. You will deliver production-quality design solutions and turn concepts into functional prototypes and production-ready experiences.

You will work at the intersection of design, research, and engineering, collaborating with designers, researchers, and software engineers to create delightful customer experiences and push the boundaries of prototyping and frontend technology.

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

Frontend prototyping

UX prototyping

Collaboration

Coding samples

Lifecycle experience

Tools

ElasticSearch

Redshift

DynamoDB

Job description

Amazon is seeking an experienced Sr Design Technologist to bridge design and engineering at scale. You will deliver production-quality design solutions and turn concepts into functional prototypes and production-ready experiences.

You will work at the intersection of design, research, and engineering, collaborating with designers, researchers, and software engineers to create delightful customer experiences and push the boundaries of prototyping and frontend technology.