Amazon Mechanical Turk is a service that provides access to an on-demand, scalable, workforce to complete jobs that humans can do better than computers. Common use cases include image recognition, audio transcription, machine learning algorithm training, sentiment analysis, data normalization, and surveys. At any given time, there are hundreds of thousands of jobs (called Human Intelligence Tasks, or “HITs”) available in the system. If you are excited by the opportunity to design and develop highly scalable web services and systems, this may be the right career move for you. We operate as a startup within Amazon, providing great flexibility in product and technology direction. As a Frontend Engineer on the team, you will be expected to operate at all levels, diving deep into the details while providing strategic inputs for the product. You will own architecting and implementing complex technological initiatives that could span multiple teams and expected to successfully deliver major product
· Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience · 5+ years in software development for interactive, high-performance interfaces · Proficiency in working in agile software development lifecycles · Experience with ReactJS, Redux, HTML5 Canvas · Experience with WebGL engineering · Familiarity with real-time communication mechanisms such as WebSockets and WebRTC · Proficiency in, at least, one modern programming language such as Java/Scala/Go/C#/Python on Unix/Linux. · Familiarity with Polymer Web Components · Experience building drag-and-drop web-based UIs · Experience building