Prime Video Slate

Slate is a website for Amazon Prime Video studio partners (Disney, MGM, HBO, etc.) to upload and manage their movie and TV content ultimately to be shown on Prime Video. This product replaced a legacy system developed in 2015 to give a fresh and modern look as well as speed up the process of creating a new asset on Prime Video.

I worked on this project as a co-lead front-end engineer from August 2023 to April 2024 after which it was handed off to core support teams.

My role

As a Front-end Software Engineer II in Amazon Prime Video, I was responsible for leading the daily development of the Slate application. I worked with many other engineers, front-end and back-end, as well a UX designer to collaborate and move a quick pace in order to deliver the new tool within six months. My primary features included title (movie/series) creation and file upload.

Skills & software

Front-end: React, TypeScript, CSS3, Micro-frontend NPM Packages

AWS cloud infrastructure: CloudFront

Design: Figma

Team

The team for this project was comprised of two front-end engineers and four back-end engineers. Myself and the other front-end engineer met daily to prioritze work and strategize about implementing the product. We partnered with our back-end engineers to call REST APIs for persisting the TV/movie content. We also met weekly with a UX Designer for input on the product vision.