Zocdoc's mission is to give power to the patient by making it easy to find and book healthcare. The Senior Software Engineer, Design System Team will help build and maintain reusable UI components and libraries to empower product teams to create consistent, high-quality user interfaces at scale, driving efficiency and a unified user experience.
Requirements
- Meaningful experience building and scaling shared UI/UX/Web components, design system libraries, or UI libraries.
- Strong technical skills with React, Javascript, and Typescript, primarily mentioning work on developing new consumer-facing applications.
- Experience working as part of a Design System team or focused on Design System initiatives.
- A traditional Application Development background with several years of frontend experience.
- A fundamental understanding of software development principles, including CI/CD (e.g., TeamCity), testing strategies (e.g., Jest), and version control.
- Experience or passion for code reviews, architectural reviews, and establishing best practices.
Responsibilities
- Taking full ownership of architecting and building core UI components and libraries for the Zocdoc Design System.
- Collaborating closely with design, product, and frontend application development teams to ensure components meet functional and aesthetic requirements.
- Ensuring all components meet high standards of performance and maintainability.
- Authentically mentoring and coaching engineers on best practices for component development, code reviews, and technical decisions to elevate the entire team's performance.
- Building and fostering strong relationships with cross-functional stakeholders to align on technical direction and deliverables.
- Contributing to the overall vision and roadmap of the Design System.
Other
- Passionate about shared UI/UX/Web components and building design system libraries.
- Focused on creating reusable components and UI libraries.
- Excited by the opportunity to define and implement best practices for component development and usage.
- Highly detail-oriented, yet able to prioritize and focus on delivering meaningful impact.
- A strong communicator with the ability to negotiate tradeoffs and secure buy-in from Product Managers and other engineers on timelines or resource allocation.
