Senior Software Engineer

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Locations

In this role you can work from Remote, United States

Overview

GitHub is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Primer Engineering team to help evolve GitHub's open source design system, Primer. Primer Product maintainers play a vital role in ensuring GitHub's UI is consistent and accessible by supporting the implementation and adoption of reusable design patterns across the product.

In this role, you'll work with a distributed, diverse, and passionate community of engineers and designers to design, prototype, implement, and ship highly performant user experiences. You'll focus on the details: crafting open source and inner source component libraries and developer tooling that make it easier for product teams to build high-quality UI with Primer, from designing balanced component APIs to maturing components for stable release. You'll also partner with product engineers to surface and upstream common patterns and coach Primer adoption as net-new projects and UI patterns move from conception to launch.

We're looking for creative problem solvers and diverse thinkers who care about culture as much as they care about customers and features. If you enjoy the challenge of building design systems at scale while delivering an equally empowering end user and developer experience, the Primer Engineering team might be the place for you. Great products reflect the teams that build them.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, test and ship high-quality technical solutions, written primarily in React/JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, that scale across multiple GitHub services. You will be a core contributor to Primer React, and may also push changes to React-based internal components, github.com, and our Rails library, Primer ViewComponents.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teammates to define and implement innovative UX solutions and advance UI quality.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews to encourage the growth of others and enable broad contribution to the design system.
• Write architecture briefs and proposals to guide the future of the design system’s technical health and growth, and directly serve the needs of feature team consumers.
• Design and implement well-reasoned component APIs to facilitate seamless integration between software components.
• Own and advocate for the health and quality of the systems that the team builds, including participating in on-call and first responder rotations.
• Become intimately familiar with the systems you build and take pride in writing maintainable code and supporting what the team has built, and contribute to high-quality documentation and technical maintenance of our docs site.
• Partner with feature teams developing new features to share expertise on reusable UI components and coach Primer adoption as projects move from conception to launch, with a view toward growing the feature team’s systems thinking practices.
• Leverage AI to build, maintain, and automate our systems, scale contribution, and ensure agents and humans alike can build UI successfully with Primer.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 6+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python

• OR Associate’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 5+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python

• OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 4+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python

• OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND 2+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python.

• OR Doctorate in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.

• OR equivalent experience

• 4+ years of experience in JavaScript/React

• 3+ years of experience writing accessible HTML according to WCAG standards

• 2+ years contributing to or maintaining a UI component library or design system

Preferred Qualifications:

• 1+ year of experience providing technical leadership
• Minimum 2 years' experience as an engineer contributing to design systems or UI/UX using JavaScript and associated tools (e.g., React, TypeScript, Jest, Storybook, ESLint), HTML, and CSS
• Comfortable with Git version control
• Experience leading the implementation of complex UI components for multiple use cases within a website or application
• Experience with WCAG compliance and/or implementing accessibility best practicesExperience benchmarking UI performance and shipping optimizations
• Track record of working successfully with designers to implement and fine-tune complex UI

Compensation Range

The base salary range for this job is USD $124,000.00 - USD $329,200.00 /Yr.

These pay ranges are intended to cover roles based across the United States. An individual's base pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant. At GitHub certain roles are eligible for benefits and additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock. These rewards are allocated based on individual impact in role. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role.

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• Ship to learn
• Growth mindset
• Own the outcome
• Better together
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• Coach
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• Create clarity
• Generate energy
• Deliver success

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