Events are an incredible way for people to connect with each other face-to-face at a large scale. To facilitate these connections, Localist has built a first of its kind Event CMS for Marketing and HR teams. Our tools balance the needs of marketers and event organizers with the ideal audience experience.
Localist is a first of its kind Event CMS for Marketing and HR teams. Our team thinks big, dreams big and delivers big. This is an excellent opportunity to join a high energy company with a dynamic team culture at just the right time.
What you’ll do:
- Lead frontend contributions to Localist, our flagship event CMS. Localist is a large Rails app that requires fluency in Javascript and web technologies.
- Ship simple, approachable, performant, testable code.
- Communicate your recommended solutions and work to balance constraints in the short-term to reach your vision for the user in the long-term.
- Facilitate multiple types of research, identify customer pain points, and ensure usability of new designs.
- Collaborate with the head of product to ensure consistency across products, embrace our UX standards, best practices, styles, patterns, and guidelines as well as contribute to our design system.
- Facilitate and make informed technical decisions that drive the long term vision of connecting communities through events.
- Build workflow tools that enable our customers and event admins to publish beautiful event content faster and easier.
- Solve complex architecture problems in an extensible, maintainable way. Brings clarity to complex technical problems across the organization.
- Work closely on new features with others on the product team.
- Take ownership of frontend components – from architecture to development, deployment, and maintenance.
- Mentor your fellow product team members, participating in code reviews and working hand-in-hand with other developers.
Important traits for this role:
- 5+ years of experience developing user interfaces for large scale applications.
- Skillset priority: UI/UX (HTML + CSS) > JS > Rails
- Able to write approachable, performant code with comprehensive tests and thorough documentation.
- Love to make your customers and colleagues jobs easier through automation.
- Keep the big picture in mind, and strive to solve the root problem.
- Deep understanding of "designing for grandma," employing best-practice UX patterns, simplifying complex problems that require the least amount of UI possible.
- Experience developing a product from concept to launch (if you have public examples of existing products, that’s a huge plus).
- Experience collaborating with product managers, designers, and engineers.
- Experience developing user interfaces using a client-side technology such as React and Redux.
- Proficiency and ability to mentor others in web technologies.
- Experience in authoring UI for single page applications that meet WCAG 2.0 AA web accessibility standards to support customers who use assistive technologies.
- Expertise in design patterns, unit tests, and version control systems, especially git.
- Solid experience implementing features from style guides and user stories.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Needs:
Resume plus URL to your online portfolio describing your thought process for all projects and any UI components you designed. Please note that submissions without a portfolio that clearly demonstrate UI/UX design principles will not be considered.
Our health, wellness, and benefits package include:
- Competitive wages and flexible schedules
- Generous benefits package including:
- 100% paid medical, dental, vision
- 401(k) with company match
- Life insurance
- Long/short-term disability insurance
- 6 weeks PTO
- 4 paid days per year to volunteer for a not-for-profit of your choice
- Quarterly offsite team activities
- Mac Workstations
- Easy access to Metro (Silver Spring, Red Line)
- Complimentary Snacks & Drinks (Yum!)
- Open office design in a fun, collaborative team environment