Design System Engineer (Remote within UK or Hybrid Working)

Collaborative people that create ingenious solutions

Get on board with the fastest-growing cybersecurity company in the UK

Immersive Labs is the leader in people-centric cyber resilience. We help organizations continuously assess, build, and prove their cyber workforce resilience for teams across the entire organization, from front-line cybersecurity and development teams to Board-level executives. We provide realistic simulations and hands-on cybersecurity labs to evaluate individual and team capabilities and decision-making against the latest threats. 

https://www.immersivelabs.com/why-immersive-labs

Where we are now

Immersive Labs was founded in 2017, from a cargo container in Bristol, UK we’ve grown to over 300 employees globally, announced funding of more than £150 million and been voted a Best place to work for the last 3 years running! We are trusted by the world’s largest organizations including KPMG, Sophos and the NHS to measure, map to risk, and optimize the human cyber abilities of their entire workforce.

https://careers.immersivelabs.com/our-story/

We encourage people of all different backgrounds and identities to apply. We are committed to maintaining an inclusive, supportive place for you to be you and do your very best work.

Design System Engineer

We have an exciting opportunity for a motivated and curious Front-end developer to join us at Immersive Labs as a Design System Engineer, working in our Product Design team.   

This is an opportunity to own the systematic end-to-end implementation of design in our platform UI, covering the operation, contribution, extension and performant delivery for the end user.

We are not just seeking a skillset though – we are looking for someone who will also become an important and vital part of our team, so we seek a driven, curious and collaborative person to become our next colleague.

If you want to have a large impact and contribute more than just your time, this could be the role for you – at Immersive Labs, we value determination, ingenuity, collaboration and an understanding that unique products require solid technical solutions.

You'll get to work in and with friendly, multi-disciplinary teams on innovative ideas during our Hack Weeks, where collaboration between different teams is encouraged to explore new and clever solutions.

Your main responsibilities:

You will be driving the centralization, extension and polishing of our front-end tech. Your role is to care for the design system full time, eliminate debt and modernize it to match our standards.

• You'll participate in crafting a strong product that enables us to serve the highest quality experiences to our users.

• You demonstrate an understanding of the development workflow, how to streamline processes, and involve other stakeholders.

• You'll be the driving force behind a component library that enables developers to work at pace, owning the implementation of new components and patterns from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution.

• You'll contribute to the definition and be the advocate of our internal standards for style, accessibility, maintainability and best practices.

• You’ll work with designers and engineers to ensure accessibility is built into our UIs from the ground up

• You'll provide mentorship for engineers to help them best apply systemic product UI composition 

• You’ll gather regular feedback from engineers to remove blockers and ensure our component library serves to aid productive developer workflows

• You’ll work in our design team as the technical driver for composable product realization.

Success in this role will depend most on your approach, core web skills and drive for growth, even if some of the above would be new to you. 

Our current tech stack includes Typescript, React, css tooling – including Vanilla Extract, Tailwind and Styled-components, Ruby on Rails, Node, Python, AWS, Github and Slack.

• This role would best suit someone who is several years into their career and have worked on a product or SaaS platform.

• You are experienced in Javascript frameworks, preferably React

• Demonstrable, and up-to-date knowledge of best practices and patterns when working in a large, scalable frontend codebase, and familiarity with CI setups

• Understanding of Git, semantic, accessible HTML, CSS and CSS in JS solutions 

• You've begun to develop the skills to critically review technical solutions and identify potential performance / design system / security / scalability issues

• You show excellent communication skills and are excited to solve challenging problems in developing a long-term product building environment

• You show a strong desire to work collaboratively as part of a team to deliver features on our product.

Immersive Labs’ growth has been fuelled by our values that underpin everything we do, here's how they relate to this role:

• Driven - We are innovators and market-creators, constantly moving forward to achieve results in support of our mission.

• Inclusive - We are passionate about creating an environment of inclusion and respect for our employees, customers and partners, everyone has opportunities to thrive.

• Customer Obsessed - We seek to develop deep relationships with our customers to help them achieve their business outcomes.

• One Team - We are a talented global team working together to achieve our vision.

If you would like to read more about what you can expect from our recruitment process, you can visit our dedicated interview process page.

As well as an inclusive, supportive place for you to be you. We offer an extensive range of benefits so you can do your very best work:

• Time off, flexible and hybrid working so you can work when is best for you, includes 25 days annual leave +  2 volunteering days and birthday half day

• Look after your family and yourself with enhanced parental leave, mindfulness groups, critical illness cover, 7% matched pension, health plan and more

• Career and learning development through the platform and our ‘Learn Anything’ fund

• Recognition & Rewards for doing great work and living our values and behaviours

• Informal or formal flexible working options, e.g. flexible start and finish times, reduced hours, job share, remote working

• We’re a sociable, tight-knit team with monthly socials, and sports clubs. Our socials have included everything from pottery painting and paper mask making, to movie nights and escape rooms

• When you do visit the UK hub getting there is easy: we’re based in the centre of Bristol, just a 10 minute walk from the train station. We also offer railcard loan and cycle scheme to buy a new bike

Find out more at https://careers.immersivelabs.com

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