Amazon Music is an immersive audio entertainment service that deepens connections between fans, artists, and creators. From personalized music playlists to exclusive podcasts, concert livestreams to artist merch, Amazon Music is innovating at some of the most exciting intersections of music and culture. We offer experiences that serve all listeners with our different tiers of service: Prime members get access to all the music in shuffle mode, and top ad-free podcasts, included with their membership; customers can upgrade to Amazon Music Unlimited for unlimited, on-demand access to 100 million songs, including millions in HD, Ultra HD, and spatial audio; and anyone can listen for free by downloading the Amazon Music app or via Alexa-enabled devices. Join us for the opportunity to influence how Amazon Music engages fans, artists, and creators on a global scale. Learn more at https://www.amazon.com/music.
Do you love music and are excited about building the future of music experiences? Are you driven by directly impacting the look and feel of customer facing applications? Do you want to collaborate with design and engineering experts to deliver technologies that help accelerate innovation at Amazon? If so, the Amazon Music Product Design team is looking for a talented, passionate, Front-End Engineer with a track record of delivery, ownership and attention to detail that is excited to help us grow our design system, and prototype new features that customers will love. You will help champion how the Amazon Music design team delivers experiences that are distributed around the world, spanning mobile apps, web, tv, and voice for our customers across different geographies and musical cultures.
Key job responsibilities
We’re growing quickly and hiring the best; this is day one. This Front-End Engineer will support the Design Systems & Engineering team focused on user-interface development, prototyping, and tooling to delivery high quality user-interfaces and user-experiences for the Amazon Music app. The role requires the need to be adept at both application architecture, reusable component frameworks, understanding the intricacies of component design, while also creating and maintaining mechanisms to deliver high quality code - including libraries, motion frameworks and prototyping design explorations. You’ll work closely with a cross functional team of UX designers, motion designers, and other engineers to collaborate on feature designs, create prototypes, implement dynamic app animations, and contribute to the component library for our Design System. Your peers will look to you to communicate technical feasibility and alternative solutions when roadblocks are discovered. Your prototyping work will help extend design explorations and drive high quality UX across our app experience. Within this fast-paced environment, you will also contribute to testing, deployment, and maintenance of our React Native component library which is leveraged by our engineering org. Your key job responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
- Working on our React Native library of reusable foundations, components and patterns.
- Working on an extensible motion framework to support our quality bar.
- Working on high-fidelity prototypes to support our next generation experiences.
- Write high-quality, clean, efficient, performant, and well documented code to create reusable and modular components.
- Document front-end engineering best practices for other cross-functional team members.
- Participate in code reviews and contribute to a culture of continuous improvement.
- Provide thorough unit and integration testing, and support products while deployed and used by our customers.
- Balance constraints, limiting short-term workarounds, while focusing on future extensions.
- Drive consensus between design, engineering and product owners.
A day in the life
Work/Life Harmony
Our team is focused on balancing life with our work, and we do this via work autonomy and by putting focus on prioritizing solutions and processes that enable us to scale. Work hours are flexible and typically self-defined.
Mentorship & Career Growth
One of the most exciting aspects of being on the Amazon Music creative team is the opportunity to partner closely with professionals across the full organization. The fast-paced, collaborative
environment means you’ll be working alongside engineering, product design, music industry, marketing, and creative rock stars who can help you accelerate your career, stretch your skills, and bring new ideas to market.
About the team
The Design Systems & Engineering team is embedded within the Product Design team, striving and focusing on delivering high quality CX to our customers. The team builds our design system UI library, and builds and distributes prototypes that are used for innovation and user-testing. We set the standard for the process, earning trust with all partners, biasing for action when working within tight parameters, and using sound judgment to make decisions in areas of ambiguity or uncharted territories. We partner with our engineering counterparts on the experience teams with the primary objective to enable the development of bar-raising design for our apps.
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