Design Systems Engineer

Company: Amplitude
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: February 25, 2021

Job Description:

Amplitude's mission is to help companies build better products. We are the analytics platform of choice for many top product teams around the world including Square, Paypal, and Notion. We're looking for an engineer to work within Amplitude's frontend infrastructure team, which is responsible for Amplitude's design system / component library, UX accessibility, and dependency management across our product's frontend. As a design systems engineer you'll collaborate with Amplitude's product teams (made up of engineers, designers, and product managers) to ensure they have the building blocks they need to build and improve high quality, consistent, and accessible experiences for our users. As a Design Systems engineer you will:

• Develop the reusable components that serve as the building blocks for Amplitude's workflows and analyses using TypeScript, React, and CSS.
• Develop systems, patterns, and tooling to ensure that the quality, performance, and accessibility of Amplitude's React components continuously improves.
• Write user-friendly design-system documentation for our product teams to consume.
• Work closely with product teams (including product managers, designers, and engineers) to ensure the Amplitude design system is supporting their current and future needs.
• Make core architectural improvements to our frontend infrastructure, ensuring the Amplitude web app uses modern patterns and technologies that enable rapid development.
• Participate in design and code reviews.
• Lead engineering discussions and mentor other engineers on engineering best practices, especially around component reusability, accessibility, and performance. You'll be a great fit if several of the following statements describe you:
  • You have 3+ years of experience working in a frontend or full stack engineering role.
  • You enjoy building component-based UIs with modern tools like React and TypeScript.
  • You have a strong understanding of how to build components that are atomic, composable, and reusable.
  • You have a good understanding of current and emerging trends in web application development, including the various approaches to styling (CSS Modules, CSS-in-JS, Sass, etc.), component libraries (such as Material UI, Ant Design, and Tailwind) and design system tooling (such as Storybook, Styleguidist, and Chromatic).
  • You're familiar with WCAG Accessibility 2.0 Standards, and care about building components that are inclusive and accessible for all.
  • You pride yourself in your attention to detail, and your UI / UX sensibilities.
  • You care about the under-the-hood details that can make the difference between interfaces that are performant and accessible, versus those that merely look good.
  • Bonus points if you have experience contributing to open-source software.
  • Bonus points if you have experience building data visualizations using D3. Who We Are Amplitude is built on a culture of having a growth mindset, humility, and ownership. We empower our teams to build with autonomy and collaboration and are committed to continual improvement. For more insight into how we work and what life is like at Amplitude, take a look at our KeyValues profile: https://www.keyvalues.com/amplitude The Company: Amplitude is filled with humble, life-long learners who are eager to help one another and the company succeed. Our values of growth mindset, ownership, and humility are core to the way we work: we're tenacious in the face of challenges, we take the initiative to solve problems that drive our shared success, and we operate from a place of empathy and openness, seeking to understand many points of view.-- We care about the well-being of our team: along with excellent health insurance, we offer flexible time off, a monthly wellness stipend, delicious in-office lunch, dinner, & snacks, commuting benefits, a 12-week parental leave, a generous Learning & Development stipend, and a full 10-year window to exercise your stock options. The Product: Amplitude is a product intelligence platform- we help companies understand their users, rapidly release better product experiences, and grow their business. We're super proud of what we've built and continue to build on: a platform that enables companies to thrive.-- Other fun facts about Amplitude
    • Founded in 2012, Amplitude is backed by Sequoia Capital, IVP, Battery Ventures, Benchmark Capital, Y Combinator and other top tier investors.
    • Twenty of the Fortune 100 are now customers of Amplitude as our innovative brands such as Atlassian, Twitter, FuboTV, and Thredup.
    • We have offices in San Francisco (HQ), New York, Singapore, Amsterdam, London, and Paris.
    • Our mascot is the DataMonster, who loves to chow down on all your numbers, charts, and graphs. Nom nom. Amplitude provides equal employment opportunities (EEO). All applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or sexual orientation. Amplitude's D&I Commitment: Amplitude believes that diversity enables the creation of better products, the ability to solve complex problems, and drive more powerful solutions. In order to make diversity possible, we commit to striving to create an environment of inclusion: an environment focused on psychological safety, empathy, and human connection, which will allow employees of all backgrounds to feel the care they need to thrive.-- U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment Information (Completion is voluntary) Individuals seeking employment at Amplitude are considered without regards to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation. You are being given the opportunity to provide the following information in order to help us comply with federal and state Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action record keeping, reporting, and other legal requirements. Completion of the form is entirely voluntary. Whatever your decision, it will not be considered in the hiring process or thereafter. Any information that you do provide will be recorded and maintained in a confidential file. Gender Please select Are you Hispanic/Latino? Please select Race & Ethnicity Definitions If you believe you belong to any of the categories of protected veterans listed below, please indicate by making the appropriate selection. As a government contractor subject to Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA), we request this information in order to measure the effectiveness of the outreach and positive recruitment efforts we undertake pursuant to VEVRAA. Classification of protected categories is as follows: A "disabled veteran" is one of the following: a veteran of the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service who is entitled to compensation (or who but for the receipt of military retired pay would be entitled to compensation) under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; or a person who was discharged or released from active duty because of a service-connected disability. A "recently separated veteran" means any veteran during the three-year period beginning on the date of such veteran's discharge or release from active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval, or air service. An "active duty wartime or campaign badge veteran" means a veteran who served on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service during a war, or in a campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge has been authorized under the laws administered by the Department of Defense. An "Armed forces service medal veteran" means a veteran who, while serving on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service, participated in a United States military operation for which an Armed Forces service medal was awarded pursuant to Executive Order 12985. Veteran Status Please select Form CC-305 OMB Control Number 1250-0005 Expires 05/31/2023 Voluntary Self-Identification of DisabilityWhy are you being asked to complete this form? We are a federal contractor or subcontractor required by law to provide equal employment opportunity to qualified people with disabilities. We are also required to measure our progress toward having at least 7% of our workforce be individuals with disabilities. To do this, we must ask applicants and employees if they have a disability or have ever had a disability. Because a person may become disabled at any time, we ask all of our employees to update their information at least every five years. Identifying yourself as an individual with a disability is voluntary, and we hope that you will choose to do so. Your answer will be maintained confidentially and not be seen by selecting officials or anyone else involved in making personnel decisions. Completing the form will not negatively impact you in any way, regardless of whether you have self-identified in the past. For more information about this form or the equal employment obligations of federal contractors under Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act, visit the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) website at www.dol.gov/ofccp . How do you know if you have a disability? You are considered to have a disability if you have a physical or mental impairment or medical condition that substantially limits a major life activity, or if you have a history or record of such an impairment or medical condition. Disabilities include, but are not limited to:
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