Senior Software Engineer I, Design Systems

Spring Health’s design systems team ideates, designs, engineers, and maintains an ecosystem of internal tooling for product designers and front end engineers, and empower them to bring our vision to life. We serve as the glue between our product design and product engineering teams, and take great care to ensure our systems are creative, flexible, scalable, accessible, consistent and reliable. We believe that design is never done, and we’re building a scalable system to meet the highest levels of both quality and function. We need passionate people that aren’t afraid to push the limits, and can convince others to follow along. Ultimately you will help us deliver a polished product at scale. 

This position is remote, full time, with travel 1-2 times per year for team gatherings as possible. You will report to a Senior Engineering Manager in the Member Experience organization and work closely with the Design Systems team. 

What you’ll be doing: 

• Work on a small team to build performant experiences using your deep knowledge of modern front end development practices and technologies
• Develop with a component-first mindset and an eye for clean design and UX
• Partner with design systems and feature teams to ensure members come first
• Research complex problems, then design and implement solutions
• Utilize broad knowledge of architectural patterns and best practices
• Extending API’s that empower engineers to maximize creative expression and overall utility
• Use semantic design tokensImplemente tokenized Lottie or Rive animations
• Be a WCAG 2.2 A/AA advocate and resource to the engineering teams
• Develop React components per Figma design specifications
• Collaborate with design systems and feature teams to ensure members come first
• Accountable for estimation of work and deliverable timeline with high quality
• Mentor and guide fellow frontend software developers
• Uses clear and concise written and verbal communication, leaning on more asynchronous
• Review all design systems code changes, ensuring quality is high, meets accessibility standards, and is responsive to all supported screen sizes 

What success looks like in this role: 

• React component library - held accountable to a committed % of component availability for engineers to use in their React projects by agreed upon release date.
• Design system documentation - responsible for percentage of components and  patterns, timely documented
• Active contributors - increase the number of engineers contributing to the design system
• Automated a11y testing coverage - build and improve the percentage of the ecosystem covered by automated scans or monitoring for a11y conformance

What we expect from you: 

• Expertise in building performant experiences using HTML, CSS & JavaScript
• Expertise in React including JSX, components, props, state management, lifecycle methods, hooks, event handling, higher-order components (HOCs), render props, and composite components
• Deep knowledge & experience building encapsulated UI components using JavaScript front-end frameworks such as React, Angular, Knockout, Vue, Chakra
• Experienced performing code reviews as a mentor
• Experienced mentoring & leading front end developers, including accessible code (WCAG 2.2 A & AA)
• 3+ years experience with automated cross-browser testing
• BONUS:
  • Experience building Figma plugins
  • Experience working with Webflow APIs

The target base salary range for this position is $159,100 - $194,150, and is part of a competitive total rewards package including stock options and benefits. Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by a number of factors including experience, location, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations. We review all employee pay and compensation programs annually at minimum to ensure competitive and fair pay.

Don’t meet every requirement? Studies have shown that women, communities of color and historically underrepresented talent are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Spring Health we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we strongly encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles!

Ready to do the most impactful work of your life? Learn more about our values, how we work, and how hypergrowth meets impact at Spring Health: Our Values

Hypergrowth meets impact

What to expect working here:

• You will be held accountable to an exceptionally high bar and impact
• This may be the fastest work environment you will ever experience in terms of growth, decision-making, and time to impact
• You will be empowered to set your own boundaries and asked to adapt them in critical moments when the company needs you
• You will create processes & products that have never existed before
• You will have very direct conversations and receive continuous feedback to push you to become the most thriving team member and performer you can be
• Change is a constant here: your role, team, responsibilities, and success metrics will shift as the company grows

And…

• You get to be surrounded by some of the brightest minds in the field  
• You get to learn and grow at an extremely accelerated pace
• You will experience transparency, integrity, &  humility from leadership 
• You will be empowered to constantly challenge the status quo
• You get the space to experiment & innovate
• You get to make a transformational impact for the company, mental health, and for real human lives — and you will see that impact quickly
• You will become more resourceful and resilient
• You get to be part of a winning team that opens doors in the future

Benefits provided by Spring Health:

Your Total Health:

• Health, Dental, Vision benefits start on your first day at Spring Health. You and your dependents also receive an individual One Medical account which is valued at $199/year per user. HSA and FSA plans available
• A yearly allotment of no cost visits to the Spring Health network of therapists, coaches, and medication management providers for you and your dependents
• 10 allocated sick days per year
• Flexible paid time off in addition to 12 paid holidays throughout the year
• Access to Gympass, an on-demand virtual benefit that provides wellbeing coaching, and budget management.
• Spring Renewal: When you hit your four-year Springaversary, you’ll be awarded a four week, fully paid, sabbatical leave to renew and recharge. 

You And Your family:

• 4-4.5 months of fully paid parental leave
• Spring Health provides team members and their families with sponsored access to Bright Horizons® child care, back-up care, and elder care.
• Access to fertility care support through Carrot, in addition to $4,000 reimbursement for related fertility expenses

Supporting you financially through:

• Our People team benchmarks all salaries using the Radford Global Compensation Database for technology and life sciences industries. Radford benchmarks salaries with 3,589 global firms, 6.5 million employees, and 98 countries across the globe. We do this to ensure all of our team members are paid equally and competitively.
• On top of competitive and benchmarked salary, Spring Health offers incentive pay (based on role), and equity that begins vesting as we celebrate your first year with the company!
• Employer sponsored 401(k) match of up to 2% after 90 days of employment

Creating a culture you can thrive in:

• Flexible work arrangements: 66% of Spring Health team members work fully remote while 33% work in a hybrid model from our New York City offices
• Focus Fridays: no meetings, no distractions, just time for you to get work done.
• Focus Weeks: In Spring 2023, we held our first ever Focus Week, we canceled all non-essential meetings, minimized distractions, and you, our team members, to dive into the key work that gets chopped up or deprioritized during the regular day-to-day. We saw a 36% jump in the average energized score after those five days of flow state work and are finalizing a plan for quarterly Focus Weeks for team members.
• Up to $1,000 Professional Development Reimbursement per calendar year.
• $200 per year donation matching to support your favorite causes

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Don’t meet every requirement? Studies have shown that women, communities of color and historically underrepresented talent are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Spring Health we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace

To ensure intentional and equitable hiring practices, we use a balanced candidate slate in our interviews. This approach guarantees that our pool of qualified candidates includes individuals who are underrepresented in our organization at all levels. This is a key performance indicator (KPI) for our recruiting and hiring teams, reported quarterly to maintain accountability.