FEE 3s lead their team’s software development, often working with peers on related teams. They deliver working software systems consisting of multiple features spanning the full software lifecycle including technical design, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance strategy. They work with stakeholders to create or evolve processes for the team to propose UX, provide feedback, recommend improvements, and give voice to engineering considerations. They drive UX outcomes which will scale as their software or product grows. The problems they solve do not start with a defined technology strategy, and often have conflicting constraints. They have expertise in many aspects of front-end engineering including, but not limited to, rendering, performance, accessibility, security, and browser/device compatibility. They are familiar with front-end technology trends and apply them judiciously. While they often do not design every feature themselves, they review others’ work to ensure it fits into the bigger picture and is well designed, extensible, accessible, performant, and secure.
FEE 3’s code contributions demonstrate best practices, which others emulate, and continue to be high-quality (See FAQ 6 for the definition of the “Amazon Code Bar”). They take on projects where the business direction is understood, but the technology strategy is not. They balance constraints, limiting short-term workarounds and focusing on future extension. They influence and drive consensus between design, engineering, and product owners. They ensure the results of their deliveries is measurable.
FEE 3s are beginning to solve problems through the use of non-technical solutions such as UX design patterns, process improvement, culture changes, or staffing and training. They ensure that their team has good operational practices with the correct alarms, telemetry, runbooks, and retrospective/COE processes. When disagreements arise, they lead inclusive, constructive dialog with team members and related teams. They ensure their team grows by training, recruiting, assessing, and providing career guidance to members of their team.
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Key job responsibilities
Scope and Influence
• You lead projects that require the work of multiple engineers.
• You own team architecture, providing a system-wide view and design guidance. You are a key influencer in team strategy and goals.
• You bring perspective and context for current technology choices and guide future technology choices.
• You make space for others to voice their views. When confronted with differing points of view, you build consensus on the best path forward.
• Members of other teams seek you out for your expertise.
• You drive adoption of engineering best practices on your team.
• You actively coach or mentor multiple other engineers and / or colleagues. These people may or may not be on your team.
• You identify areas within the UX that might be roadblocks for customers and influence stakeholders to improve the UX. This includes but is not limited to issues around accessibility, security, and performance.
Ambiguity
• You work on problems where the customer case is defined, but the technology strategy may not yet be defined.
• You work to clearly understand the problems you’re solving before moving on to solutions. You drive productive discussions with customers, peers, and stakeholders such as designers and product managers.
• You understand the business impact of your systems and show good judgment when making technical trade-offs between your team’s short and long-term needs.
• You understand that many problems are not new and explore re-use or extending existing solutions first.
Technical Complexity
• You work on problems with multiple risks and roadblocks using solutions that are as simple as possible, both directly, through others on your team, as well as the product requirements. You develop an understanding of these problems in a way that lets you explain them to others in simple, concise terms.
• Where your work involves other teams with their own priorities, you create the right checkpoints to ensure a successful delivery.
• You enable your team to rapidly solve difficult UX problems through either visual or architectural design patterns and effective collaboration with design and product teams.
Execution
• You effectively communicate your technical designs and decisions in writing. You are able to write for a technical, non-engineering audience in your domain when required.
• You work efficiently and routinely deliver the right things without guidance. Your deliveries are frequent and incremental.
• You set a culture of robust software development. Your personal coding practices are exemplary in terms of code organization, clarity, accessibility, simplicity, error handling, and documentation.
• You make existing systems and solutions simpler.
• You balance speed of delivery and foundation for the future. You identify one-way door technical decisions, and advocate for developing the right solution for them.
Impact
• Your work prioritizes long-term results including software quality, business requirements, customer experience, and maintainability of both your team’s and related team's product(s).
• You consider where each system is at in its lifecycle and where to appropriately and proactively fix architecture and UX deficiencies.
• You work to resolve the root cause of endemic problems including areas where your team limits the innovation of other teams. This may require you to influence software decisions made by other teams.
• Your team is stronger because of your presence, but does not depend upon your presence to be successful.
A day in the life
You'll be surrounded by people who are incredibly passionate about AWS technology and our product. We are functioning cross-organization. You are expected to make fast data-driven decisions, and implement features with high quality. The team is based out of SEA and SJC, so you will whiteboard ideas with Sr. SDEs and PEs and come up with proof-of-concepts to showcase what is possible.
About the team
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge-sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects that help our team members develop your engineering expertise so you feel empowered to take on more complex tasks in the future.
Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the 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.
About AWS
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.
Inclusive Team Culture
AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
Mentorship & Career Growth
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.
