Senior UI Engineer

| Greater NYC Area
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At Skillshare, you’ll have a direct impact on how teachers share their expertise, how students find and watch content that excites them, and how we're presenting our platform to the world. The Engineering team’s work draws from a deep understanding of our users’ needs, working with product and data experts to build a robust and delightful experience for our students and teachers. You will collaborate with your fellow engineers, product managers, and designers to bring innovative and beautiful designs to life.

What you'll do:

  • Combine your solid coding skills with a design sense to deliver pixel perfect, premium experiences.
  • Be a part of a cross-functional team made up of product managers, designers, and engineers working in an iterative agile environment.
  • Build and ship high-quality code to deliver impactful features and experiences.
  • Design scalable front-end architecture.
  • Participate in code and architecture reviews.
  • Evangelize best practices for creating a delightful, fast, and scalable front end.

Why we're excited about you:

  • You’re an experienced software engineer with a focus on building polished, engaging, and responsive user experiences.
  • You’re experienced with well-known JavaScript libraries and frameworks such as React and Next.js.
  • You have deep mastery of HTML and CSS.
  • You know the pros and cons of CSS tools and systems such as BEM, Sass, Less, CSS Grid, and styled components. 
  • You’re experienced in creating and maintaining OOCSS libraries.
  • You’re an expert in browser compatibilities. 
  • You’re knowledgeable in best practices to maintain and go beyond ADA compliance.
  • You’ve worked on global products and aware of best practices to make sure users have a premium localized experience. 
  • You bring a thoughtful approach to coding, testing, and technical documentation to the table, and you’re ready to help continually improve processes. 
  • You’re interested in emerging technologies and excited to help push the boundaries of Skillshare’s platform offerings.

Why you're excited about us:

  • Growth: You’ll have the opportunity to lead UI efforts across our platforms, interact with colleagues across disciplines, and have opportunities for greater impact over time.
  • Our team: We have a passionate, talented team that is a lot of fun to work with.
  • Our mission: We’re doing work that matters – connecting lifelong learners around the world and empowering them to pursue their creativity.
  • Flexibility: We believe that doing your best work means living a full life. That means different things for everyone, so we optimize for trust, invest to support remote teams, have an unlimited vacation policy (with a required minimum!), and encourage work-life balance.

About Skillshare:

Skillshare is an online learning community whose mission is to connect curious, lifelong learners everywhere – and, in so doing, build a more creative, more generous, and more prosperous world. Today, our community has grown to millions of members who come to Skillshare to learn creative and entrepreneurial skills, network with peers, and even teach a class themselves. We are backed by Union Square Ventures, Spark Capital, Amasia, Spero Ventures, and Burda Principal Investments.

Skillshare is committed to building a diverse team that reflects a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We’re proud to be recognized as a top place to work by Crain’s, and one of the five best places to work for women by Bpeace. We work to ensure a consistent interview process, fair compensation, and inclusive work environment for all.

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