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As a Staff Software Engineer, UI, Platform you will take a leading role in designing and implementing the front-end architecture that powers our platform's user experience. Your expertise will guide the development of intuitive, scalable, and responsive UI components, ensuring a seamless and engaging interface. Collaborating with UX designers, backend engineers, and product managers, you will translate complex functional requirements into efficient, aesthetically pleasing web applications. Your commitment to code quality, performance optimization, and adaptive design principles will be crucial in creating a dynamic portal that stands at the forefront of e-commerce innovation, enhancing user satisfaction and driving business success.

What you’ll do:

• Develop and maintain the front-end architecture for a brand new platform, ensuring it aligns with the overall technical vision and business goals.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Design and QA teams to translate wireframes and design mockups into interactive and visually appealing user interfaces and build “the right things the right way”
• Optimize UI components and application code for performance, scalability, and responsiveness, ensuring a smooth user experience even during high traffic periods. Be very aware of Accessibility, UX, and responsive design.
• Create and maintain documentation for UI components, coding standards, and best practices to facilitate collaboration among team members.
• Help the team to rewrite, refactor, and decouple frontend from a CommerceTools application to a NextJS app & build tests using playwright
• Help build the strategy, select the right tools and implement SEO, site analytics, A/B testing, monitoring etc.

What you’ll bring:

• Master's degree in Computer Science
• 5+ Strong expertise in React and related libraries, with the ability to design and develop complex user interfaces using React components.
• Proficiency in HTML, REACT and CSS, including knowledge of CSS preprocessors like SASS or LESS.
• Familiarity with UI/UX design principles and the ability to collaborate effectively with designers to create visually appealing and user-friendly interfaces.
• Knowledge of cross-browser compatibility issues and solutions to ensure consistent performance across different web browsers.
• Create intuitive and responsive User Interfaces (UI) that provide an exceptional user experience, leveraging your expertise in front-end technologies.
• Able to maintain high-performance service requirement.

Preferred Requirements:

• Prior experience building e-commerce customer portals
• High proficiency at problem-solving with focus on speed of delivery, being a team player, and being into details
• Knowledge of CommerceTools is a plus

What you’ll get from us:

• Our people: If you thrive in an inclusive, innovative, and fast-paced organization, look no further! You will get to work alongside some of the brightest minds - Join a genuinely fun and supportive workplace where we keep our employees consistently engaged through internal communication and corporate events
• Relaxation and Celebrations: Generous PTO, Sick Days, Paid National Holidays, and even more (ask us about this when we connect).
• Health Benefits: We contribute to your medical, dental, vision and short-term/long-term disability plans and have a strong employee assistance program.
• Plan for your Retirement: 401(k) eligible after your first 90 day's employed!
• Giving Back: We sponsor multiple events throughout the year to help out our communities. You will receive time off to give back as well.
• Growth: We’ll help you take your career to the next level. We want you to be creative and take initiative which will allow you to grow and create within the company. Most importantly, be the best at what matters!
• Flexible Work Schedules: With business units and employees across the globe, Material Technologies has embraced a hybrid working model allowing department leaders to decide on the best approach for their respective teams, whether that be remote, in person, or a little of both.