UI Software Engineer

Cisco Systems, Inc.•San Jose, CA

36d

About The Position

The LIO (Lifecycle Innovation and Optimization) team is a multifaceted group of people working on big ground-breaking, highly visible initiatives and acquired company integrations. The Cisco.com Engineering team within the LIO organization is leading the charge on crafting a first-in-class digital experience for our customers and partners as they interact with our flagship corporate Cisco.com website, which is the largest and most visited digital platform supporting all stages of the lifecycle. We are at the epicenter of developing modern, cloud-native technologies, integrating various artificial intelligence tools & LLM models that allow us to stay agile and adaptable in a constantly evolving market. Pioneers in our field, Cisco.com Engineering team enables customers and partners to increase value with a simple, unified Cisco experience, driving accelerated time to impact!

Requirements

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (Bachelor's with 7+ years of relevant experience, or Master's with 4+ years of relevant experience).
7+ years of proven experience in frontend or full-stack development with a focus on large-scale web applications.
3+ years of hands on experience AEM Adobe Experience Manager, including HTL, Core Components, template development, dialogs/policies, client libraries strategy, and authoring workflows.
Deep understanding of designing, building, and scaling modular component systems applying framework agnostic web components.
Expertise in an Nx-managed (or similar) mono-repository comprised of TypeScript, ES Modules, Sass/CSS, Vite, Vitest, ESLint/Stylelint; able to review PRs for UX fidelity and a11y. Experience using Docker as well as Node/npm.

Nice To Haves

Deep understanding of WCAG 2.1 AA, ARIA - Accessible Rich Internet Applications, keyboard interaction models, and practical a11y testing.
Strong spec writing and documentation (JSDoc/TypeDoc, READMEs, AEM authoring guides).
Semantic versioning, change-logs, Gitflow branching; coordination across engineering and AEM release pipelines.
Excellent multi-functional communication; ability to align diverse partners and empower authors.

Responsibilities

Lead architecture and hands-on development of components, frameworks, and libraries used across multiple web properties through definition and evolution of the vision, roadmap, and governance model.
Partner with the Senior UI Architect by co leading the component lifecycle-from specs and tokens to API develop and implementation/integration-balancing performance, accessibility (a11y), and component standards.
Develop and run an enterprise-ready, framework-agnostic, web component-based component system to be used in different web application stacks/infrastructure including Adobe Experience Manager (AEM).
Develop and run AEM components using HTL and Sling Models that correspond to components maintained within the component system.
Design and implement templates, component dialogs, and policies used for authoring in AEM using editable templates, content fragments, and experience fragments as well as providing author training and mentorship.
Champion accessibility (WCAG 2.1+) by defining a11y checklists, ARIA patterns, and keyboard support for supported components as well as maintaining outstanding web page performance.
Help drive discovery, design decomposition, spec writing, and UX acceptance for components in the component system.
Mentor and support other developers across multiple scrum teams by defining and promoting code quality standards.
Contribute to design critiques/component reviews with design, research, engineering, and platform teams.
Participate in tool selection, framework evaluation, and technical roadmap planning for UX component system and AEM components.
Assist with coordinating release trains across frontend component system and AEM deployments; communicate breaking changes and deprecations across teams.
Proactively evaluate emerging front-end standards and tools and translate them into practical improvements.

Benefits

U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco's plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance.
Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.
10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
1 paid day off for employee's birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees
Exempt employees participate in Cisco's flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)
80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco's policies.