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Senior Frontend Engineer, AWS Applied AI Solutions

Amazon.com Inc
  • Seattle, WA
    1 day ago

    Job Description

    AWS Applied AI Solutions (AAIS) is building toward a future where every business innovates with Amazon AI teammates. To get there, we build AI solutions that improve human capabilities and transform entire business functions. We create end-to-end products that surprise and delight out-of-the-box, making complex things easy and hard things possible, with no cloud experience required. We start with customers who embrace the future and build bridges to meet the rest where they are. We pursue ambitious opportunities with conviction, and we are looking for builders who share that mindset.

    We"re building Chorus, a real-time document workspace where AI agents are actual collaborators: an agent gets a cursor in the doc, edits the same CRDT, and shows up in presence right next to you. We wrote it from scratch in Rust and TypeScript; we sync in under 50ms with hundreds of simultaneous editors on a single document, and it costs roughly a dollar per builder per year to run. It"s an exciting combination of greenfield work with a massive user base that provides immediate feedback when something doesn"t work.

    Requirements

    • You proactively seek out problems, propose solutions, and own delivery
    • You find ways to deliver code with agents at high speed without sacrificing the quality of the code or the software.
    • Experience in building distributed and high-concurrency systems

    We"re a small team with an unusually direct line from idea to thousands of builders using it. If you want to be one of maybe a dozen people in the world shipping production CRDT infrastructure that treats AI as a peer, this is the job.

    Key job responsibilities

    • Own the front end of a real-time collaborative editing product end to end: its architecture, performance and reliability as it grows from early customers to broad AWS adoption
    • Take a front end that grew faster than its foundations and make it one the team can move quickly and safely in. Find the worst pain points, set a direction and drive the cleanup to completion
    • Design and deliver major features on a modern editor stack (React, TipTap/ProseMirror, Yjs CRDTs, Rust compiled to WASM), balancing short-term delivery with long-term health
    • Know when a one-off fix is the right call and when a repeated pattern needs a shared component, hook or abstraction. Raise it with the team and build it
    • Lead technical discussions with backend and partner teams on API contracts, real-time sync behavior and UX tradeoffs. Bring data, write down the options and help the team reach a decision
    • Raise the front-end bar through thorough code reviews and clear conventions for state management, testing and component design, and by onboarding newer engineers into the codebase
    • Make the front end observable and production-ready: client-side error and performance monitoring, alarms on what you ship, solid test coverage, and real ownership during on-call

    A day in the life

    Your mornings are usually free for focus work -- architecture deep dives and hard problems. Around 11 you"ll have standup, then grab lunch with the team (if you like) before the afternoon opens up for design reviews, CR feedback, or unblocking an engineer. Some days you"re deep in code; others you"re on a call with a customer team working through how their system integrates with yours. You"re the person who knows the system most deeply -- and you work to ensure you"re never the bottleneck. The problems are hard and the stakes are high -- but we believe we can move fast, do exceptional work, and have a full life outside of it.

    About the team

    Amazon 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.

    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.

    We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there"s nothing we can"t achieve in the cloud.

    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 and AmazeCon conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

    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.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationSeattle, WA
    IndustryRetail
    Company Size10,000 employees or more
    Year Founded1994
    Websitehttp://Amazon.com/militaryroles

    About Company

    At Amazon, we don’t wait for the next big idea to present itself. We envision the shape of impossible things and then we boldly make them reality. So far, this mindset has helped us achieve some incredible things. Let’s build new systems, challenge the status quo, and design the world we want to live in. We believe the work you do here will be the best work of your life.

    Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.

    It’s Always Day 1
    At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here

    Our Leadership Principles
    Our Leadership Principles help us keep a Day 1 mentality. They aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging. Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates. To read through our Leadership Principles from Customer Obsession to Bias for Action, visit https://www.amazon.jobs/principles

    Skills

    • Amazon Web Services (AWS)unmatched
    • Application Programming Interface (API)unmatched
    • Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
    • Artificial Intelligence (AI) Agentsunmatched
    • Bridge Buildingunmatched
    • Cloud Computingunmatched
    • Code Reviewsunmatched
    • Concurrencyunmatched
    • Conferencesunmatched
    • Editingunmatched
    • Event Managementunmatched
    • Mentoringunmatched
    • On Callunmatched
    • Onboardingunmatched
    • Performance Analysisunmatched
    • React.jsunmatched
    • Startupunmatched
    • Team Playerunmatched
    • Technical Leadershipunmatched
    • Testingunmatched
    • User Interface/Experience (UI/UX)unmatched
    • Writing Skillsunmatched

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