Senior UI/UX Engineer
Santa Monica, CA
Engineering – Engineering /
Full-time /
VideoAmp, Inc. is looking for a UI/UX Engineer to join the Design Operations team out of Santa Monica HQ. The Design Ops team is responsible for maintaining and evolving our design system, supporting and improving our internal style guide, and maintaining our React-based component library, PreAmp. We work closely with engineering, design, product, and marketing teams to support the implementation of user interfaces for our web applications and websites.
You will be combining your expertise in engineering and design into a single discipline to develop, prototype, and test innovative UI solutions. The ideal candidate will have experience building out code-based design systems, writing maintainable and scalable CSS, and be passionate about always improving the user experience of customers. You will push the envelope on front-end engineering and inspire engineering teams and leaders to invest in new ideas.
Qualifications
- Experience developing user-facing features or developer tools on the web.
- Strong JavaScript skills. Experience with modern JavaScript libraries and tooling, and debugging JavaScript issues.
- Strong experience in writing reliable, maintainable, and powerful code that may be used by many other people.
- Enthusiasm for collaborating with a diverse array of partners, including product managers, designers, and engineers across a variety of platforms.
- Experience with component-based architecture and development.
- Experience writing maintainable and scalable CSS, with familiarity in architecture and methodologies like OOCSS, BEM, Functional CSS, or other.
- Providing effective code reviews and peer support.
- Demonstrated design and UX sensibilities.
- Experience with responsive user interfaces and data visualization.
- Experience with application frameworks (React, Angular, Vue).
- Web development experience, including JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and Canvas.
- Strong grasp of web accessibility standards.
Responsibilities
- Build a scalable code-based design system.
- Inform the design process with opportunities and challenges presented by the medium.
- Integrate with web testing services for functional testing.
- Build tools that help operationalize and bring efficiencies to design activities.
- Develop and extend our React-based Component library.
- Help assess the technical impact of design decisions, and insure that less impactful options that can achieve the same design intent are considered.
- Assist across different engineering squads to ensure UI accuracy and proper UX conventions.
Perks
- Small, friendly, and highly collaborative team.
- Unlimited PTO.
- Unlimited use of personal trainer and weekly in-office yoga.
- Catered meals and fully stocked kitchen (premium + cold brew coffee, fresh produce, hot breakfast, variety of beverage options).
- Corporate support for hackathons, lunch and learns, and attending conferences.
- In office gym.
- Optional company outings, i.e. Bubble Soccer, White Water Rafting, Star Wars movie viewings, Camping, Beach Volleyball, etc...
VideoAmp is the software and data company that powers the convergence of the linear TV and digital video marketing ecosystems. Our Software Division enables marketers and content owners to holistically plan, transact, and measure deduplicated audiences across linear, digital, and OTT video advertising. Our Data Division connects linear TV viewership with addressable data assets via APIs for the marketing and media industries. VideoAmp is backed by Mediaocean, RTL Group and six institutional investors.