Senior UI Engineer (Percy)
BrowserStack, United States
Job Description
Our mission is to be the testing infrastructure of the internet. Sound interesting?
BrowserStack is the industry-leading, cloud web and mobile testing platform that enables developers to test their websites and apps on different operating systems and mobile devices.
To further our mission, we acquired Percy in mid-2020 and this role will join the Percy U.S. engineering team. Percy is an all-in-one visual testing solution. We are working on exciting new ways to design, develop and deliver software with confidence.
We’re hiring for a Senior User Interface Engineer with a heavy design focus to join our growing team. In this role, you will be the primary owner of frontend aspects of Percy’s UI and UX.
Role Description
On a day to day basis, you might:
- Share polished UI designs with the team.
- Discuss trade offs of a UX exploration using wireframes.
- Write CSS amp; HTML to implement the components and designs you make.
- Use Percy to visually review the UI you’re working on.
- Meet with team members around the globe.
- Learn or level up with new tools and techniques.
- Contribute to project meetings as part of a highly-collaborative team.
- Implement a design using Tailwind into our Ember.js application.
- Collaborate with a frontend engineer to connect functionality to your UI.
- Communicate your progress and blockers.
- Delight our users with polished animations or illustrations.
- Provide feedback and reflection through retrospectives.
We want people who know that design is not just about the result, but about the process by which we get there. You should value iteration and exploring the trade-offs of different solutions, and be able to explain the trade-offs to others. You should value both driving consensus as well as moving projects forward.
Design skills are necessary but not sufficient we strongly value empathy and communication with others on the team and with our customers.
Top reasons to choose this role:
- Work on a product people love. Percy is valued by Basecamp, Canva, Shopify, and more.
- A focus on happiness. We’re focused on retaining our hires for the long-term. We try our best to foster a sense of loyalty and happiness among the team.
- A truly empathetic team. Our team feels included and listened to, no matter what background they are coming from.
- High-growth company amp; products: BrowserStack is rapidly expanding globally and is used by millions of developers around the world.
The team:
We strive to grow a collaborative team where everyone feels a strong sense of belonging. All members of our team have clear objectives for success, but also have lots of autonomy to achieve these objectives.
When new features are being added to Percy, we take care to fix things as they come up so we don’t have to worry about them while still making forward progress. We consistently take care of technical and design debt, automating workflows, and reflecting on how to improve our own productivity.
What our team says about working on Percy’s team (collected by a third party):
- Everything people bring to the table is unique to them and is valued. I don’t know how to articulate what it is that makes me feel like I can be my authentic self.
- I feel important every person is willing to listen to another’s perspective. I have regular one-on-ones to see how it’s going, both as a person and an underrepresented person. My voice can and has had an effect on the business and culture.
- I feel engaged. I learn new things every day. The projects I’ve given are well-suited to my
Requirements
You might be our team’s missing puzzle piece if:
- You can communicate in a friendly and professional manner. People you talk to feel important and heard.
- You have enough experience in Figma to go most days without needing mentorship.
- You can hit the ground running with Tailwind, either because you have plenty of experience building with it before or because you’ve used a comparable CSS framework for many years.
- You have experience driving the UI/UX aspects of a project from wireframes to implementation.
- You have a proven ability to learn new skills on the job as they come up, and you love learning so you relish the opportunity.
- You’re able to self-manage and communicate your progress to others.
Non-necessary bonus points:
- You’ve used Ember.js
- You’ve created and maintained a design system
- You have experience with 3D modelling using Blender
Diversity and Inclusion
We strongly value building a company where everyone feels safe, welcome, and supported to achieve their professional goals. We strive to build an inclusive environm