Frontend Engineer, Kiro at Amazon
Portland, OR
$143,700–$194,400from the description
Jul 21, 2026
Portland, OR
Jul 23, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role involves front-end software development on Kiro, an autonomous AI agent service built within AWS. Day-to-day work spans architectural decisions, feature development, and operating production systems, with a focus on areas such as analytics, fraud detection, and governance. It suits engineers with hands-on JavaScript, HTML, and CSS experience who are comfortable working across the full development lifecycle in a fast-moving AI product team.
Mid level · 2+ years · Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 1,600 people in the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 1,200–2,100
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $159,430 (middle half $128,996–$177,877). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (5)
Despite the role description focusing heavily on autonomous AI agents, backend systems, and AWS infrastructure, the formal Basic Qualifications gate exclusively on front-end skills (JavaScript, HTML, CSS, JS frameworks). The broader narrative context (compiler technologies, agent training, scalable deployment) appears to describe the team's work rather than hard requirements for this specific posting.
React and Angular are listed together under 'JavaScript frameworks such as angular and react' in the required section — emitted as a single skill (React) with Angular as an alternative, since the posting treats them interchangeably.
TypeScript and Node.js appear only under Preferred Qualifications.
The role title carries no seniority level; the 2+ year minimum experience gate and the scope described (owning projects, defining technical direction) suggest a mid-level hire, though the narrative aspires higher.
Compensation is stated as a base salary range for Portland, OR; sign-on payments and RSUs are also mentioned but not quantified.
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