Our UX Engineer will build and maintain highly interactive, high performance UI-components in React/Storybook. We’re building a product for UI/UX designers, and those designers have very high standards for both the functional and also the visual quality of our product. So of course, we need a UX Engineer who is pixel-perfect.

This role is for someone who is one-part engineer, one-part designer, living in both worlds.

Outcomes

Here's some of what we might expect of a new hire:

• Capable of taking the lead role in architecting own code, which fits correctly into the larger system architecture, within 6-weeks.

• Provide useful code review (consistent with our company’s standards) on other engineers’ Merge Requests within 3-weeks.

• Proactive participation in group planning, meetings, and other discussions within 1-week.

• Capable of communicating a detailed explanation of our product vision (broken into specific features) within 4-weeks.

• Complete a full BDD-process (alongside designers, product, and QA) correctly completing the engineering role’s responsibilities in BDD, within 4-weeks.

This role is for highly-independent, proactive, user-centric engineers. Engineers who will work cross-functionally, think from the users’ perspective, and will take real ownership.

We’re looking for Engineers who step outside their comfort zone.

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• User-centric: considers their task “done” only when working code is in a user’s hands, and this user is having a great experience.

• Collaborative: proactively gives/asks-for help and feedback, as early as possible. Works well both within team boundaries, and also across them.

• Systems-Thinker: does the work required to plan work which fits into the larger architectural picture, and long-term product vision.

• Proactive: speaks up, takes the initiative, and accepts personal responsibility for great user-centric outcomes. Believes nothing is ‘someone else’s problem.’

• Positive Influence: outlook and behavior bring the team’s spirits up, not down. Positively contributes to the team’s energy and mood.

• Responsible: thrives on a high level of autonomy and responsibility. Embraces accountability for outcomes.

• Growth-Oriented: a constant and proactive learner. Allergic to “good enough” (差不多), always proactively, energetically improving.

• Business-Thinker: takes responsibility to understand our market, strategy, roadmap, users, etc. Does not stop at just understanding today’s specification.

• Clear Communicator: easily understands (and can be understood by) others in English. Good grammar is not required, the only requirement is that someone’s ideas can be clearly understood.

• Cross-Functional Mindset: Collaborates hands-on with designers, product managers, other engineers, and even users. Does not restrict responsibility to implementing a specification which must be provided by others.

• Sense of Urgency: Fights against an organization’s natural state: inertia. Knows that to build something great we all need to move mountains, now!

• Adversity & Ambiguity: we’re tackling enormous, complex, important problems. We want to work with ambitious people who are not afraid to aim extremely high.

• 5+ years minimum experience in the following

  • Fundamental knowledge of JavaScript (min ES6+), HTML5, and CSS and Node.js

  • Developing front end applications using Javascript UI libraries and Node.js frameworks

• 3+ years minimum experience in the following React related technologies including but not limited to

  • Extending create-react-app based applications with styled components and TailwindCSS

  • Installing, compiling and bundling with Webpack, Yarn and Node.js and NPM

  • Designing UI Components using React with Storybook

  • Design and development of performant optimised UI components that can scale to hundreds of instances in a Single Page Application.

  • TDD using Enzyme, Chai, Jest, Mocha

  • In depth knowledge in the use of Chrome DevTools for debugging and performance optimisation

  • Use of git workflow with source hosting services such as github and gitlab

• Developing graphical applications based on Canvas, Webgl and React.js

• Experience in developing multi-tab SPA and handling concurrency issues.

• Experience in Multi User Application development and offline support

• Working knowledge and experience in integrating React, Webgl with webassembly

• Working knowledge of leveraging web workers

• In depth knowledge of UX principles and designer development workflow

• Mac OSX / Linux / Windows 10 / WSL2 shell scripting and administration

• Use of Docker Desktop for Mac OSX or Windows 10 or docker in native Linux

We believe in fair Shared Ownership.