User Experience Engineer

Roberts Recruiting, LLC; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading SaaS technology company in Boston is seeking a creative UX Engineer to join their team. You will collaborate with engineering, product, and business teams to craft exceptional user experiences. The ideal candidate has over 3 years of experience in product development, strong front-end design skills, and proficiency in HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript libraries. This role offers the chance to work in an innovative environment dedicated to delivering impactful solutions.

Qualifications

• At least 3 years experience developing awesome products.
• Expertise with HTML5, CSS3, and major JavaScript libraries.
• Ability to create quick prototypes to test feasibility.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with engineering, product, and business teams.
• Rapidly iterate UX design concepts.
• Bring presentation layers of interfaces to life.

Skills

Rapid prototyping

Front-end design

Visual sensitivity

HTML5

CSS3

JavaScript

Responsive design

Tools

jQuery

Angular

React

LESS

SASS

Job description

Headquartered in San Francisco, we are a SaaS technology company with a mission to unleash the power of the people-centric web. Our platform enables brands to enter the new world of Context-Driven Marketing and build meaningful relationships with those impacting their business and category.

Our SaaS platform is used by Fortune 500 companies across a variety of industries including Energy, Travel and Hospitality, Financial Services, Software, Consumer Goods, Retail, and Pharmaceuticals. A majority of the top Communications Agencies use us. We are growing rapidly in terms of recurring revenue and the size of our customer base in North America, Europe, and Asia.

Job Description

We are looking for a creative UX Engineer who will work closely with our engineering, product, and business teams to craft the future of our product and build amazing experiences for our customers. To excel, you will need outstanding rapid prototyping and development skills and a keen eye for visual detail at the pixel level. You will play an essential role in rapidly iterating UX design concepts, bringing the presentation layer of interfaces to life for our world-class customers.

The right candidate would enjoy being challenged, love learning, be detail-orientated, appreciate working with people from diverse backgrounds, and be really passionate about what you do.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will demonstrate several of the following:

• At least 3 years experience developing awesome products
• UX + development and visual sensitivity
• Passion for front-end design and implementation — from building responsive solutions across multiple devices to writing high-performance, reusable code for UI components
• Prototyping skills — ability to create quick prototypes to test feasibility and allow for rapid evolution of ideas
• Expertise with HTML5, CSS3, Canvas, etc.
• Expertise with at least one of the major Javascript libraries (jQuery, YUI, etc.)
• Expertise with JavaScript and CSS frameworks such as LESS, SASS, Angular, React or Backbone etc.
• Understanding of back end implications of code
• 2+ years experience working with design teams preferred

What makes you get up in the morning

• You roll up your sleeves and dive head first into new challenges and technologies
• You like staying current with code and user experience trends and patterns
• You like using technology to empower people