SOFTWARE ENGINEER, DESIGN SYSTEMS
Company: Index Ventures
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: June 26, 2022
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Job Description:
The Design Systems team creates a standard shared UI language in
code that spans the Discord's user-facing platforms. Designers and
engineers on this team collaborate closely to accelerate product
feature teams' ability to ship new features with UI that is
consistent and high quality. Our design system is still in the
early stages, so there's lots of opportunity to have impact
here!We're looking for product-driven, empathetic engineers who
have experience building front-end architecture for other
engineers, and by extension our users.What you'll be doing:Help
build the foundation of our design system (design tokens,
components, and other code patterns) and improve it over time.Write
code that works across our iOS, Android, desktop, and web
platforms.Create and maintain Figma plugins that synchronize our
designs to code (and vice versa).Create lightweight developer
tooling to aid in migration and communicating best practices (e.g.
linting rules, CI jobs).Collaborate closely with other engineers
and designers to understand the needs and impact of your
work.Provide guidance to teams on the best way to utilize design
systems components and tools across their projects.Build internal
tools to empower all of our engineers and designers to leverage the
design system to the fullest extent.Work with Senior and Staff
level engineers to grow your skillset and aptitudes.You will thrive
in this role if...Familiarity with web (React, TypeScript) or
mobile (React Native, Objective-C, Kotlin) development. We're a
cross-platform team and believe that engineers should be empowered
to work across a variety of tech stacks. We'll support you in
learning the stacks you don't know!Experience building, shipping,
and iterating on product features or internal tools.Experience
working on cross-functional teams with designers or product
managers.Strong written and verbal communication skills.Willingness
and excitement to learn new technical skills.Experience working on
a project where you interfaced directly with
stakeholders.Experience working on a design system.Experience
migrating existing front-end codebases to new technical
patterns.New York City residents only: Minimum salary of
$165,000/year + equity and benefitsNote: Disclosure as required by
NYC Pay Transparency Law.Colorado residents only: Minimum salary of
$132,000/year + equity and benefitsNote: Disclosure as required by
sb19-085(8-5-20).Benefits and PerksComprehensive medical insurance
including Health, Dental and Vision (plus up to $20,000 for gender
affirmation procedures)Mental health resources and quarterly
wellness stipends16+ paid holidays, 4 weeks of PTO +
use-what-you-need sick daysPaid parental leave (plus fertility,
adoption and other family planning benefits)Flexible long-term work
options (remote and hybrid)Volunteer time offA diverse slate of
Employee Resource GroupsPlus commuter contributions and other perks
for office-based employeesAbout UsDiscord is a voice, video and
text app that helps friends and communities come together to hang
out and explore their interests - from artists and activists, to
study groups, sneakerheads, plant parents, and more. With 150
million monthly users across 19 million active communities, called
servers, Discord has grown to become one of the most popular
communications services in the world. Discord was built without
selling ads or user data and instead, offers a premium subscription
called Nitro that gives users special perks like higher quality
streams and fun customizations.We're working toward an inclusive
world where no one feels like an outsider, where genuine human
connection is a click, text chat, or voice call away. A place where
everyone can find belonging. Challenging? Heck yes. Rewarding?
Double heck yes. It's a mission that gives us the chance to
positively impact millions of people all over the world. So if this
strikes a chord with you, come build belonging with us!
Keywords: Index Ventures, San Francisco , SOFTWARE ENGINEER, DESIGN SYSTEMS, IT / Software / Systems , San Francisco, California
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