UX Engineer at Kofa

The UX Engineer is responsible for creating exciting, usable and beautiful web and mobile apps for internal or customer use. You will work with other software developers, researchers and product developers to create applications that meet user needs, are pleasurable to use, efficient, and consistent. You will also be responsible for creating innovative solutions to front end issues to help make our applications more visually appealing and enhance usability.

You will also be engaged in out-of-the-box thinking to create new techniques to visualise data. Using bleeding edge technology, you will take ownership of the design, development and implementation of new applications. If you enjoy what you do, we are looking forward to working with you.

Responsibilities

• Bridge the gap between interface design and technical implementation
• Understand the desired User Journey and translate it into a great User Experience across multiple applications
• Design a framework for creating apps that grows with the need of the company
• Use a variety of mark-up languages to develop both web and mobile apps and also enhance applications for maximum speed and scalability
• Consistently ship small features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with team members (backend developers, product manager etc.) and other stakeholders on larger projects
• Design and prototype user interfaces, including but not limited to mobile and Web-based applications, taking into consideration user research and feedback
• Develop and maintain styling architecture or design systems to ensure reusable components and visual consistency across all applications
• Understand and promote usability best practices
• Participate in user research and user interface concept design
• Lead user feedback and testing processes
• Analyze user interactions over time and suggest and make usability and User Experience improvements
• Maintain brand, layout and graphic consistency throughout design
• Assist in the development of applications and features for both internal and external use
• Take ownership of the overall direction and architecture of the front-end development, recommending whatever frameworks or libraries are relevant
• Shape the direction of the product by participating in feature scoping sessions
   

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience working with microservice architectures
• Experience in a peak performance organisation, preferably a tech startup
• Experience with Cloud Platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Experience with Interaction Design and animation
• Experience conducting User Experience research
• Experience designing Data Visualizations
• Experience designing for non-traditional interfaces (eg. electronic device dashboards, vehicle displays, etc.)
• Experience working with a global or otherwise multicultural team
   

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field. Equivalent experience may be considered in lieu of a formal degree
• 4+ years hands-on web development experience
• 2+ years hands-on mobile app development experience required
• 2+ years User Interface and User Experience Design experience
• Proficiency with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, TypeScript, Dart and Bootstrap
• Hands-on experience with modern front-end frameworks (React Native, ReactJS, VueJS, AngularJS, Node, ES6+)
• Experience in mobile development using any of these tools (Flutter, Ionic, React Native, Android Studio, XCode etc.)
• Experience in interaction design applications and mock up tools (Figma, Adobe Illustrator etc.)
• Experience with responsive and adaptive design
• Experience in one or more programming languages: Java, PHP, JavaScript/NodeJS, Python, C#, C++ etc.
• Experience using formal software management and source control tools (JIRA, Confluence, Git, SVN, Bitbucket etc.)
• Self-motivated, curious, creative and passionate about technology with the ability to learn new technologies as needed
• Strong communication skills, good interpersonal skills and ability to be a team player in an agile environment
• Demonstrated ability to onboard and integrate with an organisation long-term