Sr. UX Engineer
Job Description
About Pinterest:
Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product.
Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible.
As a Design Technologist / UX Engineer, you will drive initiatives that empower designers to build modern world-class user experiences for our Pinners and Advertisers with high productivity, performance and quality. We’re looking for someone who bridges design and engineering, has a growth mindset and isn’t afraid to give their opinion on how we can improve. You’ll work intimately with a small innovative design team and you’ll have the opportunity to find creative solutions to thought-provoking problems while helping to ensure both design fidelity as well as technical feasibility.
What you’ll do:
- Contribute to strategic technical direction for our design systems’s cross platform libraries
- Design solutions that address problems at both current and future scale
- Work with designers, product managers, management, internal business partners, and other subject matter experts.
- Ensure a seamless connection between design and engineering by maintaining design/UX visions through code, applying technical architecture and data
- Work within the design system and help evolve the system to meet the needs of our users; Contribute to the continuous improvement of design standards, guidelines, and reusable components
- Mentor team members and participate actively in design and code reviews, team processes and decision making
What we’re looking for:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, a related field or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of experience as a design technologist, engineer, or UX engineer
- Proven track-record of delivering highly reliable technical solutions that scale
- Deep experience working in frontend web technologies (HTML, CSS, React/TS)
- Experience developing a design system or leading design system initiatives
- Experience breaking down big challenges into smaller decisions framed as trade-offs (e.g. time vs. scope)
- Track record of delivering large, cross-functional projects across multiple organizations and being a champion of developer experience, performance and quality
- Excellent communication and collaboration with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams
- Basic awareness of accessibility principles with a commitment to further learning
Relocation Statement:
- This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Visit our PinFlex page to learn more about our working model.
In-Office Requirement Statement
- We let the type of work you do guide the collaboration style. That means we're not always working in an office, but we continue to gather for key moments of collaboration and connection.
- This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 1-2 times/quarter and therefore can be situated anywhere in the country.
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