UI Engineer | Frontend Developer

Antithesis

Vienna, Virginia

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Algorithms, CSS (Cascading Style Sheet), Data Structures, Detail Oriented, HTML (HyperText Markup Language), Internet Application, JavaScript, Node.js, PHP Scripting Language (PHP Hypertext Preprocessor), Performance Tuning/Optimization, Product Design, Python Programming/Scripting Language, Refactoring, Software Administration, Systems Maintenance, User Interface/Experience (UI/UX), Web Browsers
LOCATION
Vienna, Virginia
POSTED
30+ days ago

Antithesis is looking for an in-office employee to help improve and maintain our design system and product web apps / websites.

As a UI Engineer, you will work closely with the designers and product managers to deliver features and components.

Requirements

  • Experience implementing design mocks in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

  • A solid programming background in algorithms and data structures demonstrable via coding exercise during in-person interview

  • Experience building static and dynamic websites

  • Understanding of how the internet and browsers work

  • At least 4 years of experience creating, improving and maintaining web apps / websites

  • Great attention to detail

  • A portfolio website or a list of links to projects you’ve worked on

Bonus points

  • Experience with different build tools

  • Experience with testing libraries like Playwright

  • Experience building SPAs with a frontend framework (React, Vue, Svelte, Solid, etc.)

  • Experience in back-end development (Node.js, Python, PHP, etc.)

  • Experience with Terraform

  • Experience with Nix

  • Experience creating and shipping a software package (e.g., an npm library)

  • Experience optimizing web pages for performance

  • Experience creating, scaling, and supporting design systems

Possible contributions

Months 1–3

  • Get onboarded to Antithesis web app and how its working (pretty tricky)

  • Correct a few things in components of our design system.

  • Build a few new components.

  • Take a full Figma mock and implement an entire view/page with components available.

  • Refactor how design tokens and css variables are exported/imported

  • Plan future work on the design system and prepare tickets for it in Linear

Months 3–6

  • Add significant features to components we have and potentially refactor them

  • Build good interactive examples for the design system and UI kit

  • Learn, apply, and improve testing for our components

  • Refine and enhance old web app pages with new components

  • Ship a new design for a big feature we already had

About the Company

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