Senior UX Engineer

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At GoDaddy the future of work looks different for each team. Some teams work in the office full-time, others have a hybrid arrangement (they work remotely some days and in the office some days) and some work entirely remotely.

This is a remote position, so you’ll be working remotely from your home. You may occasionally visit a GoDaddy office to meet with your team for events or meetings.

Join Our Team

A Senior UX Engineer with a solid foundation in design and UX/UI who enjoys taking the lead and working directly with the design system and app designers to help build sophisticated design system components and dynamic web applications using standards based HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and React. This position is focused on front-end UX/UI design and integration, helping to bridge UX best methods and production execution. You'll need to be well versed in responsive CSS/HTML/JavaScript/React webpage design and implementation across all modern browsers. Our development teams will handle all the backend integration, but you'll need to be familiar with the design and UI side of dynamic web apps. A Successful UX Engineer, you should be passionate about delighting the user and be proficient in every aspect of building design system components or dynamic web apps.To be successful as a UX Engineer, you should be passionate about user satisfaction and be competent in every aspect of building a website.

What you'll get to do...

• You are as passionate about UX as you are about code.
• Advise, collaborate with, and synthesize feedback from UX designers and researchers.
• You sweat the details – sometimes it is the little things that make or break a user’s experience and you do not stop until a feature is complete, polished, and ready to ship.
• You like to work collaboratively. Work closely with UX designers, project managers, and software engineers to implement versatile front-end solutions to web development problems.
• Able to tackle difficult software and UX problems with ambiguity. Pushes for information to avoid solving the wrong problem and mitigate UI risks early in the process. Can decompose a problem into clear software and UX design actions.
• Deliver innovative, engaging prototypes using the latest in front-end technologies
• Explore product concepts to find promising directions that address both human and business needs.
• Manage your own time, and work well both independently and as part of a team.
• You have a solid understanding of semantic HTML, CSS, and core JS concepts.

Your experience should include...

• Experience writing technical documents for preliminary component creation in English
• Experience in React
• Experience in development or prototyping.
• Experience using Sketch, Figma, Illustrator and or other design software.
• 5+ years of relevant full-time software and/or UX engineering experience.
• JavaScript and experience building performant front-end systems.
• Experience with Git/GitHub.
• A passion for quality, great UX, attention to detail, and an empathy for customer experience.
• 3+ years of experience in a technical, UX, design environment, or similar.
• Experience in designing and implementing user interfaces (UIs).
• Experience in or with design systems.
• Experience with appealing visuals and thoughtful, extensible code.
• Write technical documents for preliminary component creation in English.
• Understands how to optimize the delivery of code and assets (e.g., images, fonts) to a browser or device (e.g., lazy loading assets, using CDNs, caching, compression, etc.).

You might also have...

• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum software development and JIRA
• Excellent ability to tackle problems across domains, skills, and technologies.
• Excellent interpersonal skills are required to be able to convey technical issues and details to non-technical users.

We’ve got your back

Enjoy our many benefits (My Wallet), including paid time off, 401k, equity grants and parental leave. Join one of our employee resource groups (Culture). Continue to have a side hustle, if you have one (we love entrepreneurs, remember?). Most importantly, come as you are and make your own way.

We also embrace our diverse culture and offer a range of Employee Resource Groups (Culture). Have a side hustle? No problem. We love entrepreneurs! Most importantly, come as you are and make your own way.

About us... GoDaddy is empowering everyday entrepreneurs around the world by providing the help and tools to succeed online, making opportunity more inclusive for all. GoDaddy is the place people come to name their idea, build a professional website, attract customers, sell their products and services, and manage their work. Our mission is to give our customers the tools, insights, and people to transform their ideas and personal initiative into success. To learn more about the company, visit About Us.

At GoDaddy, we know diverse teams build better products—period. Our people and culture reflect and celebrate that sense of diversity and inclusion in ideas, experiences and perspectives. But we also know that’s not enough to build true equity and belonging in our communities. That’s why we prioritize integrating diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging principles into the core of how we work every day—focusing not only on our employee experience, but also our customer experience and operations. It’s the best way to serve our mission of empowering entrepreneurs everywhere, and making opportunity more inclusive for all. To read more about these commitments, as well as our representation and pay equity data, check out our Diversity and Pay Parity annual report which can be found on our Diversity Careers page.

GoDaddy is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. GoDaddy will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with local and federal requirements. Refer to our full EEO policy.

Our recruiting team is available to assist you in completing your application. If they could be helpful, please reach out to [email protected].

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