Senior Frontend Engineer, AWS Applied AI Solutions

Amazon is hiring a Senior Frontend Engineer, AWS Applied AI Solutions in Seattle, United States. It pays $168k-$227k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.

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Level rates this software engineer role Uses AI ●●○○: an ordinary role that requires AI tools.
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The posting mentions Cursor and AI agents among its tools and skills.
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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.

Basic qualifications

- 4+ years of non-internship professional front end, web or mobile software development using JavaScript, HTML and CSS experience
- 5+ years of front-end developer creating prototypes or wire-frames for enterprise web applications or workflows experience
- Experience developing with MVC/MVM frameworks (e.g. React.JS, AngularJS, Vue)
- Experience in web applications design and development

Preferred qualifications

- Knowledge of web services technologies such as SOAP, HTTP, WSDL, XSD, and REST
- Experience in a broad range of software design approaches and common UX patterns.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, Seattle - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually

How we rate this

Senior Frontend Engineer, AWS Applied AI Solutions at Amazon rates 45 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Uses AI (AI Level 2 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Uses AI. An ordinary role that requires AI tools.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

Key facts

Senior Frontend Engineer, AWS Applied AI Solutions is an open job at Amazon.
Level rates this role AI Level 2 of 4: Uses AI.
The listed salary is $168k-$227k a year.
The role is based in US, WA, Seattle.
The job was posted on November 10, 2026.
Seniority: senior.
Applications are handled by Amazon. Apply on Amazon

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