UX Engineer

UX Engineer

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The Digital User Experience (UX) Engineers works collaboratively with our cross-functional Digital UX team to create user-centered digital solutions that align customer needs with business goals. The UX Engineer plays a key role in creating experiences in the browser or application. The UX Engineer takes a pragmatic and systems thinking approach to front-end design, and are motivated by collaborating to create inclusive experiences and clean, responsible code.

Candidates must be able to work on W2.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Writes maintainable, scalable, and accessible HTML and CSS for User Interface (UI) components and page designs
• Collaborates with other designers to create working prototypes in the browser with HTML and CSS
• Contributes to testing and code governance and collaboration via Git
• Assists in establishing standards for HTML and CSS conventions and CSS architecture
• Writes documentation and teaches designers and developers across the organization about how to leverage front-end design
• Provides senior-level guidance in code reviews
• Leads team in code testing strategies

Requirements:

• High school diploma/GED and fourteen (14) years of hands-on experience building websites and web applications
• OR bachelors degree in in Design, Computer Science, Information Sciences, Psychology, Human Factors or Human-Computer Interaction and ten (10) years of hands-on experience building websites and web applications

Skills and Competencies:

• Demonstrated ability to work as part of a collaborative team to listen effectively, to respect others' perspectives and contributions, and to offer and accept feedback openly
• Ability to establish meaningful relationships with cross-functional teams including development and product management within and across product groups
• A systems thinking and proactive problem solving approach to identifying common UI patterns and distilling them down into highly repeatable components
• Expert at scalable CSS architecture and expert with modern CSS layout techniques (flexbox, grid, feature queries) and preprocessors (Sass or Less)
• Commitment to inclusive design and accessibility (Experience working within WCAG)
• A love for collaborating with designers, as well as self-directed problem solving to design in the browser
• Pragmatic approach to working within existing tech stacks while keeping an eye on the industry for opportunities for improvement
• Strong written, presentation and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work within Agile/Scrum/SAFe development methodologies
• Familiarity with design tools like Sketch and InVision
• Experience or familiarity with static site generators and UI testing techniques
• Familiarity with or interest in learning about Web Components and the Sketch Plugin API
• Experience with the Atlassian stack (Jira, BitBucket, Bamboo) and Artifactory
• Proficiency with JavaScript and experience with Node
• Experience guiding CSS framework/design system integration with a variety of tech stacks, including JavaScript frameworks and MVC
• Experienced in designing systems and process structure for web and mobile solutions for enterprise platforms
• Experience in establishing CSS build tools and delivery infrastructure and writing code that enables design system assets (design tokens, SCSS, CSS, Sketch files, documentation site) to be delivered to a variety development teams of designers and developers
• Experience in setting up and maintaining automated CI/CD workflow
• Experience with automating build processes and working with package managers

If you believe you are a great candidate please send your resume & portfolio to

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