Senior UX Engineer

The Rock Family of Companies is made up of nearly 100 separate businesses spanning fintech, sports, entertainment, real estate, startups and more. We're united by our culture - a drive to find a better way that fuels our commitment to our clients, our community and our team members. We believe in and build inclusive workplaces, where every voice is heard and diverse perspectives are welcomed. Working for a company in the Family is about more than just a job - it's about having the opportunity to become the best version of yourself.

Minimum Qualifications

• 5 years of experience with HTML, CSS and JavaScript
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer information systems, design/UX or a related field or equivalent experience
• Demonstrated ability in building web experiences with JavaScript frameworks (React & Angular) and preprocessors (Sass)
• Demonstrated ability in using advanced Responsive Design techniques (e.g., responsive images)
• Familiarity in the UX discipline (user research/testing, design thinking, prototyping, etc.)
• Demonstrated ability in writing accessible applications and components using digital accessibility knowledge
• Demonstrated ability in writing modular, component-based CSS and JavaScript
• Demonstrated ability using CSS architectural principles (e.g., BEM, ITCSS, CSS-in-JS)
• Demonstrated ability with testing techniques, including accessibility, performance and unit testing
• Demonstrated ability using version control systems (e.g., Git)

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability using build, bundling and package management/publishing tools (e.g., Webpack, Gulp, NPM)
• Demonstrated ability using Typescript
• Demonstrated ability using Node.js

Job Summary

The Senior UX Engineer builds components, libraries, applications, tools and design systems to meet user needs. They combine HTML, CSS and JavaScript with practical design and accessibility knowledge and advocate for collaboration between design and engineering. They develop UX engineer best practices as well as mentor and develop others on the team.

Responsibilities

• Work within the UX process to create user-focused features and interactions
• Modify existing software to fix errors and improve the overall quality and functionality
• Participate in design and code reviews
• Develop team standards and best practices such as improvements to the team's processes, code and systems
• Develop and perform software automated testing procedures, solutions and frameworks to ensure software functions
• Assist with delivery estimates
• Determine and execute software deployment process
• Contribute to the internally developed, open-source Design System
• Act as the technical lead on projects and features
• Mentor and develop other UX engineer team members
• Recommend metrics and utilize data to track performance and prioritize future product features

Who We Are

We're America's largest mortgage lender, closing loans in all 50 states. J.D. Power ranked Quicken Loans "Highest in Customer Satisfaction in Primary Mortgage Origination" for the past 11 consecutive years, 2010 - 2020. The company was also ranked highest in the nation for client satisfaction among mortgage servicers by J.D. Power for 7 consecutive years, 2014 through 2020, each year the company was eligible. There's a simple reason we've been so successful: We care about the people we work with.

If you're tired of stuffy, bureaucratic workplaces, then you'll be delighted to find something different here. We strive to make a creative, fun and collaborative environment you simply won't find anywhere else. Quicken Loans was once again named to FORTUNE magazine's "100 Best Companies to Work For" list in 2019 and has been included in the magazine's top one-third of companies named to the list for the past 16 consecutive years. In addition, Essence Magazine named Quicken Loans the "#1 Place to Work in the Country for African Americans."

Disclaimer
This is an outline of the primary responsibilities of this position. As with everything in life, things change. The tasks and responsibilities can be changed, added to, removed, amended, deleted and modified at any time by the leadership group.

The Company is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and does not discriminate in any hiring or employment practices. The Company provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with state and federal law. Applicants requiring reasonable accommodation in completing the application and/or participating in the employment application process should notify a representative of the Human Resources Team, The Pulse, at 1-800-411-JOBS.