COMPLETE Staff Software Engineer, Frontend - Design Systems

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Software Engineering

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About Salesforce

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In this role you’ll use your extensive knowledge of JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS to improve our internal design system and product language, Slack Kit. You’ll engineer for usability, maintainability, accessibility, and performance while delighting our users by making their working lives simpler, more pleasant, and more productive.

In addition to building and maintaining components, you’ll be responsible for helping fellow Frontend engineers contribute to the overall system, serving as a technical lead on the ongoing work, aligning component APIs across the system, and working with other engineers and designers within Slack Kit to help define a shared vision for how Slack builds its product interface.

Our existing components and patterns are used in thousands of places throughout the code base, and implemented by the majority of frontend engineers here. We need engineers who want to make that experience as enjoyable and seamless as possible.
 

What you will be doing

• Collaborate with designers and fellow engineers to spec, write, test, and deploy code that adds to and enhances our existing library.
• Brainstorm improvements to our design system’s user experience such as Figma plugins, robust documentation, interactive component sandboxes like Storybook, and more.
• Lead technical strategy and efforts to push our Design System forward with insightful and forward-looking approaches that have an impact on an entire engineering function and tackle large open-ended problems.
• Explore new technologies to push the design system forward and enabling improved developer experience for the scale and size of the product & frontend team today.
• Set the vision for strategic development of methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria.
• Advise and guide the efforts of this new initiative through delegation to senior technical leaders.
• Improve the accessibility throughout the product by ensuring our core components are all fully usable by users of assistive technologies.
• Communicate updates and changes outwardly to frontend engineers.
• Document and share best practices more broadly with the frontend team.

What you should have

• 5+ years of practical experience writing client-side JavaScript or TypeScript.
• 2+ years experience with React and Redux, Lodash, and/or CSS preprocessors like LESS or Sass.
• Strong communication, organization, and project management skills.
• User experience and design sensibilities.
• Ability to boil down fuzzy or complex initiatives into actionable tasks. Willingness to collaborate and enjoy serving within a larger community of engineers and product designers.
• Experience with complex API and library design and implementation, with an emphasis on modularity.
• A disciplined approach to development, testing, documentation and code structure in a highly collaborative team environment.
• A constant desire to improve, learn more, and take things higher.
• Self-awareness, a positive attitude, a sense of humor, and empathy.

Bonus points if you have experience with

• Using or developing within a design system at scale.
• Using Slack and a keen interest in making it better.
• Turning complex product specs into features.
• Accessibility, internationalization, or localization.
• An understanding of how to evaluate conflicting needs and navigate the best path forward for the broader system.
• Web development, distributed systems and parallel processing.
• Testing and documentation tools including Applitools, Cypress, Storybook, and Zeroheight.
• Development tools such as Kubernetes, Webpack, ESLint, and TypeScript.

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For Colorado-based roles, the base salary hiring range for this position is $175,600 to $254,700.

Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, benefits. More details about our company benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.salesforcebenefits.com.