We have an exciting opportunity for an Engineer to join our Design System team, a cross-functional team of engineers and designers responsible for our design system in-house tooling.
Kaizen, our design system, is a library of React components that has been under development since 2017. You can view its documentation at https://cultureamp.design, and its source code on GitHub. When practical, we use React Aria Components as our foundation for new Kaizen components.
The Design System team helps Culture Amp product teams to create user experiences that are cohesive, intuitive, accessible and delightful, and to do so efficiently. We share a passion for user experience, and for empowering others teams.
Engineering at Culture Amp is an inclusive practice distributed across cross-functional, lightweight Agile teams, which are remote-friendly, and all of which embrace flexible work arrangements. You will be surrounded by talented engineers, and a cross-functional team including product management, design and delivery. You have great senior leadership support to make some large changes to all our inhouse product teams.
As part of this team of amazing humans,
You will:
- Build and maintain UI components within Culture Amp’s design system, collaborating with designers and other engineers in your team
- Maintain and improve tooling (Storybook, codemods, etc.), engineering systems and processes relating to your team’s work and the delivery of design system updates to other teams
- Participate in team rituals, and contribute to the continuous improvement of engineering culture, productivity and quality
You have:
- 2 to 5 years of front end experience working on complex web-based products
- Experience with web platform fundamentals such as HTML, CSS, JS and responsive design
- Experience with a modern JavaScript framework such as React
- Experience working in a design system team is a bonus
You are:
- Passionate about design systems, and empowering other engineering teams to be productive and deliver high quality products
- An effective communicator, able to articulate ideas and feelings when writing or speaking, and always open to other perspectives
- Self-motivated and can work independently, you approach work with curiosity and persistence while having good judgement to ask for support when needed
