Senior Software Engineer - UI Systems

Are you passionate about Design Systems, solving complex UI problems, and creating scalable architectures? You’ll be right at home here. The technology team participates in the research and development of highly scalable, data-driven, consumer-facing applications and identifies new technologies and trends to continually enhance our products and business. As a part of our Web Platform team, you will play a key role in developing a critical component enabling our engineering community across all of our consumer product lines to build scalable applications. Join us as our newest Sr. Software Engineer - UI Component Systems, and help change the world of real estate, one home at a time. Work and learn from world-class talent that promotes a culture of experimentation and learning.

• Work in the Web Platform team to develop and optimize our internal Component System used by the design and engineering community across our consumer product teams
• Create modular, performant, responsive, highly scalable, and accessible (WCAG 2.1) React components in collaboration with our Design System and Inclusion Design teams that adhere to our best practices
• Ensure that components are fully tested using automated frameworks, including unit, component, and end-to-end (e2e) tests
• Optimize developer experience by developing intuitive component APIs, authoring thorough documentation, and providing migration guides for our engineering community
• Provide engineering and design teams with technical guidance and support for component usage, code reviews, feature requests, bug fixes, UI and accessibility best practices, etc. through office hours, design sessions, and ad hoc requests
• Create and maintain an ecosystem of tools, documentation, and processes that support our Component System users and minimize development friction
• Lead discussions on component systems and library architecture with engineers to build high-quality components with intuitive APIs that are easy to implement, and promote best practices in our tech organization
• Build relationships with designers and engineers across different product lines and bridge gaps between product design and engineering
• Research and identify opportunities for improvements to our existing processes and solutions, create analysis documentation and proof of concepts, and present initiatives to engineering and business audiences
• Work with the Web Platform’s Leadership to influence and define short/long-term goals and roadmaps
• Engage in Aglie ceremonies like standups, office hours, weekly planning, and retrospectives

• Passionate about Design Systems and solving complex UI problems, and have a great sense for identifying design/interface patterns
• 5+ years of web development experience with knowledge of modern JavaScript (ES6) libraries and frameworks (e.g. React, TypeScript, NextJS)
• Extensive experience with component library architecture and CSS architecture including CSS-in-JS (styled-components, CSS Modules, etc.) and pre/post processors, and best practices around responsive layouts, accessibility, and animation
• Extensive experience with the Atomic Design methodology and breaking down complex UI designs into modular pieces that can be intuitively assembled with each other
• Experience with component systems toolings such as Storybook and Figma
• Experience with testing tools such as Jest, React Testing Library, and Playwright
• Ability to troubleshoot and debug web application problems such as front-end performance (core web vitals), bundle size optimization, SSR vs CSR issues, accessibility problems, layout issues, cross-browser bugs, etc.
• Experience with SEO best practices and page performance optimization
• Knowledge of digital accessibility and web content accessibility guidelines (WCAG)
• Familiarity with manual accessibility testing using assistive technologies
• Experience working within an engineering platform or enablement team
• Experience working with a Design Systems team
• Ability to present complex technical concepts and trade-offs to both engineering and business audiences
• Experience with build systems such as webpack and ES6 transpilers (i.e.: babel/SWC)
• Experience with the AWS service ecosystem (i.e.: CloudFormation, EC2, ECS, S3, RDS) to support build automation, CI/CD systems, testing, and deployment 
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering/related field or equivalent professional experience

Missing checkmarks on a few items in the “What you'll bring…” section? Don’t fret! We’re looking for people who have a passion for front-end website development and love to learn new things, so we’d still love to hear from you if you think you’d be a great fit!