Front-End Engineer

Your Impact

Hearst Magazines is looking for a front-end engineer for the role of "Design Systems Engineer". Front-end experience in UI and experience in design is essential for this role, and prior experience with design systems is a plus. Our primary tech is React (Preact) and Next.js. In addition to JavaScript, we seek candidates with experience in CSS and JSX. Some other libraries and tools we will be using are Storybook, GraphQL, Figma, and Supernova.

What you'll do

• Develop scalable, robust UI components that are simple to use for our engineers and work flawlessly for our users-serving a variety of use cases
• Build interfaces for our design systems that pay careful attention to design / usability and empower our designers and engineers to efficiently do their best work
• Implement new features and strategies for design systems in our media platform. Collaborate with creators, product managers, engineers, and provide technical assistance to product designers
• Contribute to our design systems documentation and develop ways to harvest documentation from code and design sources
• Help evangelize our goals in component-driven development for our user interfaces
• Mentor contributors to our design system in sustainable development practices for user-interfaces
• Partner with members of the design and engineering teams to understand user needs across interfaces and deliver scalable and reusable solutions that can be impactful across all brands
• Mentor other product designers & engineers in your area of expertise, and seek mentorship from the wider organization with an eye towards pushing boundaries and keeping your skills up to date with the latest/best practices for our discipline

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience designing and/or building web or mobile products that have been fully implemented and released to a consumer or business market.

• Professional experience working with front-end design systems, responsive design principles, modern engineering workflows, and design systems.
• Strong experience prototyping and building user interfaces with modern web technologies such as React or Vue, and modular, component-based applications
• Proven experience with semantic markup and accessibility standards. Knowledge of WAI-ARIA and assistive technologies is a plus.
• Experience using development tools, like Docker and Git for local development and app deployment
• Familiarity with Javascript testing frameworks and libraries
• Experience with contemporary digital product design tools and technologies. This could include Figma, Sketch, and/or the Adobe Suite.

Our ideal candidate:

• Has designed end-to-end product experiences for web and mobile applications
• Demonstrates strong systems thinking, information architecture, and interaction design skills
• Prefers teamwork and collaborative, interdisciplinary design practices
• Has contributed to design systems
• Is eager to learn, has a track record for being self-driven, and has experience managing multiple projects at the same time
• Has interest and excitement about problem-solving and complex systems

At Hearst Magazines, you will join a diverse community of creatives building new experiences in digital media, serving over 500 million monthly visitors for diverse editorial brands such as ELLE, Cosmopolitan, Men's Health, Women's Health, Runner's World, Oprah Magazine, House Beautiful and more. Your focus will be on developing and implementing design system tools and strategies for a growing group of content creators, publishing businesses, not-for-profit and eCommerce brands, including creation and maintenance of component libraries, design tokens repositories, design systems documentation, and more.

Why Hearst Magazines?

Hearst Magazines is one of the largest publishers in the world, with more than 25 brands, including Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, Harper's BAZAAR, Popular Mechanics, and Oprah Daily. We reach more than 150 million people every month in the United States alone.

But we're more than just our magazines. We engage our audience across all mediums and channels-print, digital, video, and social-with sophisticated content creation, distribution, and data capabilities. We create, package, and sell products with cutting-edge technology and proprietary platforms. Together, we are reinventing publishing for the 21st century.

This role is fully remote and open to those living in the following states: AL, CA, CO, FL, IL, MA, MD, MI, NC, NJ, NY, OH, SC, TN, TX, VA

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