Description:
Local and Fully vaccinated
Mid-Level UI Engineer/Design Technologist
About the Design Language Team
We're a close-knit group of designers and front-end engineers who work across all business verticals to maintain and advocate for our design system. We care deeply about our design craft and the quality of the components that we produce. We work fast, valuing experimentation and iteration.
We're not afraid of tackling the complex UX problems that the FINTECH world can serve up, and we know that maintaining a system is just as much about evangelization and collaboration as it is about having extremely high standards for the work we produce for the entire technology team to consume and implement into their products.
About the role:
We are seeking a UI Engineer to evolve and mature the design system for our company and E*TRADE's web and mobile platforms. You will work as an advocate for the design system across the design team, as well as with business and technology partners. You will be an advocate for best code practices as well as be a collaborator with technology partners to ensure our Design Language library continues to be a framework that is easily implemented in projects. You should be familiar with implementing a design system.
Once here you will...
Build and document new patterns for our established design system
Work closely with our front-end development teams to ensure coding best practices are met
Maintain Design Language frameworks including our CSS framework and React component libraries
Create functioning prototypes of experiences or components
Contribute beyond the design system itself by helping to build out projects when needed
Establish requirements for new components and component enhancements Technical skills needed
Experience working with design systems
Experience documenting code contributions to a shared framework
Proficient knowledge of modern web frameworks including React
Proficient knowledge of best practices in HTML/CSS
Good understanding of CSS pre-processing platforms such as Sass
Experience applying accessibility best practices (WCAG)
Familiarity with the AGILE process Soft skills needed
Great eye for visual details
Excellent communication skills
Pride in the work delivered and tremendous attention to detail
Go the extra mile to deliver on time and to high quality standards
Curiosity about problem solving and learning about finance
Self-disciplined, self-motivating, and self-improving
Effectively communicate and present complex conceptual thinking visually and verbally
Qualifications
2+ years relevant work