Software Engineer, Design Systems
The Role:
As an Engineer on the Design Systems team, you will be closely partnered with designers in building out Newsela’s library of foundational components. This team is part of a centralized group who collaborate closely with product engineering teams and enable them to build in scalable, consistent ways that meet high standards of design, flexibility, and accessibility.
Why You’ll Love This Role:
You will be part of a highly collaborative interdisciplinary team, and will own the building blocks for the whole of Newsela’s product. This role gets you flexing your product and design skills as well as your expertise in software development, all while enabling other teams to build features that are beautifully designed and highly accessible. And because we're a technology company focused on improving the way students learn, you’ll be part of an engineering culture that values learning, teaching, and questioning.
Why We’ll Love You:
You have 2+ years of professional web application development experience, and competency in our tech stack (Javascript, React). You also possess foundational knowledge of CSS, HTML, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, and web performance. You have demonstrated experience building in responsive design natively without a frontend framework (across mobile, tablet, and desktop) and are comfortable writing in Javascript against the browser’s native API. Previous experience building design systems is a bonus, as is familiarity with server-side rendering or progressive web applications.
In addition to your coding skills, you are able to work and communicate with design, engineering, and product teams to produce timely, healthy code. You have a keen eye for reuse and simplicity, work to understand the needs and goals of others on the team, and engage in creative problem solving to achieve them while maintaining the integrity of the user experience. You bring an informed point of view to your team, and pay as close attention to the clarity and maintainability of your code as you do its functionality.
About Newsela:
One of the fastest growing tech companies in K-12 education, Newsela was founded on the principle that while every child may have unique learning preferences, they all deserve a rich learning experience that ignites a love of learning. We built our platform based on learning science research to deliver the most engaging, authentic content to modernize how teaching happens in the classroom. Along with interactive assessments and tools, we provide teachers with digital content at five reading levels -- from +100 of the best sources -- that is relevant to the diverse backgrounds and interests of their students. Since we started in 2013, we’ve established a presence in 90% of U.S. K-12 schools and over 2.5M teachers and 37M students have registered with Newsela.