Ascend Learning-posted about 1 month ago
Full-time • Mid Level
Hybrid • Leawood, KS
5,001-10,000 employees
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Ascend Learning is the connection between a powerful portfolio of brands serving students, educators, and employers with outcomes-based, data driven solutions across the lifecycle of learning. Our values-driven culture unifies our teams and inspires a mindset of action, innovation, and collaboration, with a relentless focus on customers. We're always looking for talented, passionate professionals to join us in our mission to help change lives. If this sounds like an environment where you'd thrive, read on to learn more. Ascend Learning leads the way in innovation and solution creation to improve outcomes and deliver results for students, educators, and healthcare workers in the ever-changing field of healthcare. We offer advanced resources that drive nursing success, empower front-line certified allied health workers, help physicians pass boards and stay current, and provide education management tools for medical education programs. WHAT YOU'LL DO We are looking for a front-end User Interface (UI) Engineer with a focus on design systems to lead the enterprise adoption of reusable UI components and design-system processes. This position involves architecting front-end solutions and actively participating in the development, testing, implementation, and maintenance of platform-agnostic UI components and component libraries. WHERE YOU'LL WORK This is a full-time position working on a hybrid schedule from our Leawood, KS office preferred. Remote will be considered.

  • Design System Architecture and Strategy
  • Partner with User Experience (UX)/UI designers to ensure Figma components mirror product-agnostic coded components in Storybook (design <> dev parity)
  • Establish naming conventions, variants, and auto-layout best practices.
  • Collaborate with UX team to ensure web components and UI functionality meet client needs as well as standards for usability, visual consistency, accessibility and security
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Work with Technical Product Owners, Technical Product Managers, Quality Assurance Analysts, and other cross-functional resources to define and deliver business impacting projects
  • Collaborate closely with UX/UI designers, architects and other engineers to architect, design, and implement design system focused processes and tooling
  • Component Library Development and Thought Leadership
  • Develop, update, support, and manage comprehensive component libraries and documentation for user interface components and libraries
  • Manage process for intake, refinement, development, and completion of user stories, with an eye towards continuous improvement in the release process
  • Provide technical expertise and troubleshooting as needed to support production issues
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field preferred, or equivalent relevant work experience required. High school diploma or GED required
  • 5+ years of experience in front-end UI development
  • Extensive experience with HTML5, CSS, and SVG
  • Strong experience working with JavaScript frameworks including StencilJS, Angular and Node.js and chart frameworks
  • Experience building custom components and form elements using semantic markup and web standards
  • Strong understanding of design tokens and how to implement them across platforms and brands
  • Deep experience with Storybook for component development and documentation
  • Working experience with WCAG (508) compliance
  • Robust understanding of agile software development practices, DevOps, and Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), ideally within the context of commercial software products preferred
  • Working experience with MVC and Microservices architectures preferred
  • Familiarity with visual regression testing tools (e.g., Chromatic, Percy) preferred
  • Good knowledge of visual design and best practices of UI, reports and dashboards, and scorecards preferred
  • Working experience with design tools such as Figma preferred
  • Basic understanding of project management fundamentals preferred
  • Flexible and generous paid time off
  • Competitive medical, dental, vision and life insurance
  • 401(k) employer matching program
  • Parental leave
  • Wellness resources
  • Charitable matching program
  • Hybrid work
  • On-site workout facilities (Leawood, Gilbert, Burlington)
  • Community outreach groups
  • Tuition reimbursement
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