Front End Development Engineer, Automation Integration Technologies at Amazon
Bellevue, WA
$143,700–$194,400from the description
Jul 15, 2026
Bellevue, WA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A front-end software engineering role focused on building Human Machine Interface platforms for warehouse automation systems — including conveyor networks, work cells, and industrial control systems. Day-to-day work involves designing and developing scalable front-end infrastructure, writing automated UI tests, and instrumenting software with real-user metrics. Suited to engineers with professional JavaScript, HTML, and CSS experience and familiarity with frameworks like React or Angular.
Mid level · 2+ years · Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 7,400 people in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 5,500–9,600
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $170,959 (middle half $135,720–$216,519). 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 (7)
The role is titled 'Software Development Engineer' with no level modifier, so advertised seniority is Unspecified; the 2+ year minimum and scope of responsibilities support a Mid-level classification.
Three US locations are listed (North Reading MA, Arlington VA, Bellevue WA) with identical salary bands ($143,700–$194,400/yr); Bellevue/Seattle is used as the primary CBSA since it is the most common Amazon engineering hub, but the role may be filled at any of the three sites.
Angular and React are listed together under 'JavaScript frameworks such as angular and react' in the required qualifications — treated as interchangeable alternatives for a single hard gate on a JS framework.
HTML, CSS, TypeScript, and Node.js appear again under Preferred Qualifications; HTML and CSS are already hard-gated in the Basic Qualifications (2+ years), so they remain required. TypeScript and Node.js appear only in the Preferred section and are marked accordingly.
AWS is mentioned only in passing narrative context ('Amazon and AWS tools') and not in any qualifications section, so it is marked preferred.
Machine Learning and Controls Programming are mentioned only as illustrative exposure examples in the intro narrative, not as qualifications, and are omitted from the skills list.
The role builds a Human Machine Interface platform for warehouse automation — it ships an application (not pages/sites), supporting the 15-1252 classification over 15-1254, though the strong front-end/UI framing makes 15-1254 a plausible runner-up.
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