Web Development Engineer / Amazon Web Services / Herndon, VA

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Amazon Web Services/Herndon, VAAmazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It gives any customer complete control of their computing resources and lets them run on Amazon's proven computing environment. We enable the global deployment and execution of thousands of applications across tens of thousands of servers worldwide. Amazon EC2 is off to a great start, continues to grow quite rapidly, and constantly surpassing all internal forecasts of adoption. We are building the team to expand on our feature set and manage our rapidly increasing scale, and we want to talk to you!

Are you a frontend developer with deep experience designing and implementing web UIs using CSS and Javascript? Are you passionate about providing amazing customer experiences on the web? Do you possess a deep understanding of language best practices? Do you take great personal pride in building cool apps for other developers? If so, this job is for you!

We want you to be clearly passionate about the large opportunity that Amazon EC2 presents and about web services, in general. You must thrive and succeed in delivering high quality web services in a fast-moving environment. We're looking forward to working with you!

This position is located in Ashburn, VA.

Job Qualifications

* Extensive knowledge and experience in XHTML, Javascript, CSS and general Web 2.0 techniques.
* Expert in developing efficient AJAX interfaces with in-depth knowledge of available AJAX libraries and frameworks (e.g. YUI, DOJO, JQuery, Prototype, etc.)
* Passion for creating efficient, scalable web interfaces.
* Experience in a Linux environment.
* Familiarity with scripting languages (e.g. PHP, Perl, Ruby) is a plus.
* Understanding of web services technologies such as SOAP, HTTP, WSDL, XSD, and REST.
* 3+ years of front-end web development experience.
* Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive
* Experience with Agile development processes
* BS/MS in Computer Science, Digital Media, or equivalent Apply To Job