simspace-corporation - Engineering Manager (Core UI)
Requirements
• 8+ years in frontend, UX, or design-adjacent engineering, including 2+ years directly managing or leading engineers. • Proven ability to lead and grow frontend or UX engineering teams, including distributed or hybrid teams. • Strong technical depth in TypeScript and React—modern component patterns and state management—enough to guide architecture and review work credibly. • Experience owning or substantially contributing to design systems or shared UI libraries used by multiple teams. • Solid understanding of accessibility (a11y) standards and how to operationalize them. • Track record of partnering closely with designers, PMs, and engineers across teams. • Hands-on experience with Agile methodologies, paired with strong leadership and communication skills. • Storybook, design tokens, and Figma-to-code workflows. • Theming, white-labeling, and design token strategy. • Frontend testing strategies (unit, visual, and accessibility). • Comfort across the stack when needed (API integration, backend collaboration). • Rapid UI prototyping and iterating against customer and UX research feedback. • Interest in AI-assisted UI development and prototyping. • Experience integrating work from contractors or external teams. • Bachelor's in Computer Science or a related field (or equivalent practical experience). • Hungry for ownership—you want a domain you can shape and set the bar for. • You care deeply about UX quality and craft, and operationalize it through systems and standards, not heroics. • You lead through your team but stay close enough to make—and unblock—hard technical calls. • You balance high standards with pragmatism, making smart trade-offs when delivery demands them. • You're energized by building teams, growing engineers, and influencing across disciplines without formal authority. • TypeScript, React, Kotlin, Storybook, Figma, our design system (Monorail), Git/GitHub, Docker, Kubernetes • We’re proud to offer a competitive and comprehensive package designed to support your well-being, growth, and success:
Responsibilities
• BUILD AND LEAD THE CORE UI TEAM • Lead, grow, and develop a team of Design Engineers and Core Frontend Engineers; own hiring, onboarding, 1:1s, performance, and career growth. • Set the team's direction, goals, and priorities, translating platform strategy into a clear roadmap and execution plan. • Foster a culture that values collaboration, inclusion, craft, and creativity. • Mentor Design Engineers and frontend engineers, modeling strong craft, collaboration, and pragmatism. • Lead UI-focused initiatives end to end, balancing ideal UX outcomes with delivery realities. • OWN THE CORE FRONTEND PLATFORM • Own SimSpace's core frontend repositories, design system (e.g., Monorail), component libraries, and overall frontend architecture—treating the platform as a product with a roadmap and measurable quality. • Steward architectural decisions and manage technical and UX debt deliberately, balancing long-term health with delivery needs. • Establish and enforce standards for code health, accessibility, responsiveness, performance, testing, and documentation across shared UI systems. • OWN THE PARTNERSHIP WITH UX DESIGN • Own the relationship between engineering and UX Design, ensuring alignment between design (Figma) and implementation (code, Storybook). • Define workflows that turn design intent into production code predictably, and bring feasibility and engineering insight into design reviews early. • Support prototyping workflows that let UX research gather customer feedback and iterate quickly. • DRIVE DELIVERY AND CROSS-TEAM EXECUTION • Partner with Product Management to align frontend work with business objectives and timelines, and maintain the plans and resourcing for predictable delivery. • Collaborate with other engineering teams and QA so shared UI systems integrate seamlessly and meet a high quality bar. • Continuously improve Agile processes to enhance your team's velocity, quality, and delivery. • RAISE THE BAR ON CRAFT, ACCESSIBILITY, AND CONSISTENCY • Champion accessibility (a11y) at the component, system, and organizational level, with WCAG-aligned standards and guidance. • Drive UX quality, polish, responsive design standards, and consistency across the product—down to the error states, transitions, and keyboard interactions that make it feel premium—reducing UI inconsistency and UX debt.
Benefits
• $160K – $220K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus • Upload your resume here to autofill key application fields. • Drop your resume here! • Parsing your resume. Autofilling key fields... • or drag and drop here • Decline to self-identify • Hispanic or Latino - A person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race. • Hispanic or Latino • White (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa. • White • Black or African American (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. • Black or African American • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands. • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander • Asian (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian Subcontinent, including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam. • Asian • American Indian or Alaska Native (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America), and who maintain tribal affiliation or community attachment. • American Indian or Alaska Native • Two or More Races (Not Hispanic or Latino) - All persons who identify with more than one of the above five races. • Two or More Races • Hispanic or Latino • White (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Black or African American (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Asian (Not Hispanic or Latino) • American Indian or Alaska Native (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Two or More Races (Not Hispanic or Latino) • I identify as one or more of the classifications of protected veteran listed above • I am not a protected veteran
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