Good storytelling starts with great listening. At Audible, that means each role and every project has our audience in mind. Because the same people who design, develop, and deploy our products also happen to use them. To us, that speaks volumes.
ABOUT THIS ROLE
This opportunity is for a Front End Engineer for Audible’s Consumer Domains group. We are the team that creates and powers Audible’s applications, components and services for our global listeners across Audible and Amazon web. We are the home for tech talent that wants to grow Audible’s market leading business and build the sites and services (APIs) across desktop and mobile devices. The team is comprised of developers who work in an agile environment and partner closely with Audible and Amazon tech teams, Product, UX and QA teams.
We are embarking on a mission to reshape the fundamental experiences and delight our customers and drive a strong engineering culture. It's our responsibility to push Audible into new places; wherever our customers are listening. Achieving this vision means expanding and strengthening our development process and leveraging new technologies to deliver services and web applications.
ABOUT THE TEAM
This opportunity is to work as a front-end engineer within Audible's engineering team. The team is building customer facing UIs and a design system for Audible’s webapplication. We need your help to develop and deliver on this vision. Success means we lay the foundation for continued expansion of our company without disrupting an already tremendously successful and much-loved project.
As a Front-End Software Engineer, you will...
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Contribute to the overall front-end architecture and technical strategy within our platform: Envisioning, designing, creating, and supporting our solutions that operate with a high degree of operational excellence
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Partner with a cross-functional team to imagine, design, develop, test, and launch software that wows our community and inspires our peers
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Draw inspiration from the tools, trends, technologies and frameworks both industry-wide and within Amazon and apply these in a meaningful way within our software
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Collaborate to deliver the best technology solution, responsible for front-end system design and support and mentoring of our developers
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Be willing to explore business needs and learn un-prompted. Bring problems AND solutions to the table
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Constantly strive to raise the bar on engineering excellence
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Lead the way - staying up to date with tools, trends, technologies and frameworks both industry-wide and within Amazon and then sharing that knowledge in a meaningful way with the community
ABOUT AUDIBLE
At Audible, we innovate and inspire through the power of voice. We're changing the narrative on storytelling. As a leading creator and provider of premium audio storytelling, we've redefined the ways people access, discover, and share stories. The stories we tell have the ability to transport and transform everyday moments into meaningful experiences and it's our people who make Audible's service possible. We're listeners, storytellers, and problem-solvers. Our perspectives and experiences power our ideas and come together in our mission to unleash the power of the spoken word. Audible offers a Hub+Home hybrid workplace model that gives employees flexibility between gathering in an Audible workspace (work from hub) and remote work (work from home). For more information, please visit adbl.co/hybrid.
Basic Qualifications
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Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
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UI development skills with knowledge of: JS or Typescript, or Angular, or React
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4+ years of professional software development experience.
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Demonstrated experience in problem-solving with experience in ambiguous situations
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Experience in documentation, unit testing, code reviews, test automation, continuous integration & deployment
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Experience in Agile development
Preferred Qualifications
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Working knowledge of dependency injection, operations/promises, and modular development
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Web Components and Design System development
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Foundational knowledge of building large scale service and web applications in AWS or other cloud-based environments
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Ability to think creatively and adapt messages to the audience
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Prior use of AWS technologies at scale in a production
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Problem solving skills; adaptable, proactive and willing to take ownership
Audible is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Audible is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.