Senior Software Engineer, Core UI

This is Engineering at Lattice

Lattice’s Engineering team is continuously working to better both our product and our craft. We use a modern, cutting-edge tech stack aimed at developer productivity and delight. We strive for maintainable, robust, and performant code. We’re highly collaborative and continuously iterative and work closely with designers and product managers. We prioritize not only great technical architecture but also an amazing product experience.

What You Will Do

The Core UI pod is part of the Platform Domain, focusing on making Lattice a more cohesive suite of products by increasing the quality of shared components and experiences across our product suite. In this role, you can expect to work on our design system, UI frameworks, and shared experiences to support the Engineering, Product and Design teams in minimizing redundancy and accelerating our development process.

1. You’ll help maintain our UI frameworks, including Relay, React, and Next.js, and advance tooling and best practices for their use.
2. You'll work closely with the design team to create, scale, and maintain a design system for use by designers and developers alike.
3. You'll architect performant, accessible, and reusable front-end components for our design system.
4. You’ll work with other engineers to build and own products across a modern tech stack. Our current stack includes React, Relay, GraphQL, Next.js, Node, and PostgreSQL. We rely on AWS to host our infrastructure.
5. You’ll provide substantial mentorship to less experienced colleagues, helping to refine their technical craft and expand their knowledge.
6. You’ll make contributions to our engineering practices, identifying and evangelizing improvements to our team output.
7. You'll be a champion for accessibility and clean code across our engineering organization and in particular our design system and shared experiences.

What You Will Bring To The Table

You have 5+ years of professional experience writing and maintaining production-level applications.

1. You’ve worked with a modern programming language like JavaScript and Typescript, and are well versed in frameworks such as React, Relay and Next.js.
2. You know how to make complex components with multiple use-cases, easy to compose and use across a scaling organization.
3. You understand and promote the benefits of pragmatic testing from the component level to entire pages.
4. You have worked on design systems or UI framework integration/maintenance, understand how to build and maintain them, along with the necessary communication to ensure proper and healthy usage.
5. You seek out the root cause when debugging software defects, and champion improvements that prevent future issues.
6. You understand and champion accessibility requirements for modern web development and are passionate about helping every potential user.
7. You understand what it takes to communicate to a large and diverse audience that will use the systems and patterns you and your team owns.
8. You’re clear and concise in explaining your thought process and in enumerating the tradeoffs made in your work.
9. You work well with designers and product managers to come up with optimal solutions.
10. You will be a strong advocate across the business for other teams to adopt changes from the design system, UI frameworks, and shared experiences.
11. You love mentoring and supporting other software engineers who are newer to the industry.
12. You have experience taking the lead in planning and executing the development roadmap for software projects.

About Lattice

Lattice is on a mission to build cultures where employees and their companies thrive. In an age where employees have more choices than ever before, businesses that put employees first are winning – and Lattice is building the tools to empower those people-centric companies.

Lattice is a people success platform that offers performance reviews, employee engagement surveys, real-time feedback, weekly check-ins, goal setting, and career planning in a way that allows companies to focus on employee development, growth, and engagement – yielding stronger employee retention, performance, and impact to the bottom line. Since launching in 2016, we have grown to over 5,000+ customers globally, including brands like Slack, Robinhood, and Gusto.

Lattice is committed to equal treatment and opportunity in all aspects of recruitment, selection, and employment without regard to gender, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other category protected under the law. Lattice is an equal opportunity employer; committed to a community of inclusion, and an environment free from discrimination, harassment, and retaliation.