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The Role We are seeking a manager ready to have a transformative impact on user experience and developer experience at Addepar. Leading a new team, you’ll refine Addepar’s product UI practice through Addepar’s UX design system, your experience working with web frameworks, and web native APIs. Working closely with design partners will make you an expert in the elevation of UX quality. As your role matures, you will leverage your ability to automate, communicate, and teach to unlock the potential of product engineering teams across the company. You’ll push the cutting edge of what can be done with AI in Addepar’s UI development practice, and then drive adoption of tools and techniques across the company. As an expert in building polished and reliable UX, you will be at the forefront of how our design systems and testing solutions can be applied. Your partners in this work will include Addepar’s incredible design team, our design systems engineering team, and our web architecture team. This is a vibrant group of experts in how to build for the web, and your contributions as a colleague will strengthen it. What You’ll Do Lead a new team in Addepar’s web platform group. Implement new user experiences in Addepar’s products, bringing them to life with dark and light mode. Raise the productivity of engineers in our largest frontend codebase through the application of AI, improvements to CI, and testing tools. Build a team which can mentor other UX contributors at Addepar. Become an expert in Addepar’s web component design system, and shape the future of that system through feedback and contribution. Work across a broad spectrum of the design and web ecosystem, including with Figma, Storybook, Tailwind, Ember, Stencil, Svelte, React, Web Component technologies, and CI / testing systems. Tackle the challenge of building a global product, and a global team. Who You Are B.S., or M.S. in Computer Science or similar technical field of study (or equivalent practical experience.) 8+ years of experience as a professional software engineer 2+ years of experience as an engineering manager Strong and demonstrable knowledge of web fundamentals (TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, HTTP) Obsessive about detail and quality in a user’s experience Eager to learn new technologies Have a capacity for self-organization and direction Preferred but not required: Experience with Ember, Stencil, TailwindCSS, and Web Components. Preferred but not required: Experience with UI testing systems such as GitHub Actions, visual regression testing, QUnit, and Playwright
