Design Engineer
Job Description
This role sits on the Marketing team, where you’ll be the primary engineer. You’ll collaborate on a variety of Brand, Growth and Product Marketing projects with our full Marketing team. You’ll partner closely with our Marketing UX Designer to build web and mobile experiences that help people learn about and sign up for Buffer.
Requirement(s)
Responsibilities Create delightful user experiences on buffer.com that attract, engage, and convert website visitors, in collaboration with UX design. Contribute to the design of buffer.com through prototyping ideas, creating new performant components, and crafting unique animations and experiences. We want you to bring our pages to the next level! ✨ Lead the technical roadmap for buffer.com; championing iterative improvements to our site’s browser performance, accessibility, and usability. Contribute to our marketing design system by creating new components to our front-end library on web and mobile responsive web. Collaborate with Marketing to build various landing pages to support our product launches, growth experiments, and Open Hub that capture Buffer’s product, culture, and brand. Support our experimentation roadmap by implementing conversion rate optimization tests on buffer.com, while contributing technical improvements to our web experiment process. Support the implementation of various tools that power the marketing team, including Ghost, Prismic, and Google Tag Manager. Our technical stack consists mainly of Next.js and Typescript. Qualifications You bring experience in a similar role(s) where you have obsessed over the details and strived for pixel perfection with your web and mobile experience. You are passionate about writing simple, maintainable, tested code, and you take a balanced approach to engineering. You have strong communication and collaboration skills and enjoy sharing knowledge with your teammates. You have experience with front-end frameworks like Next.js, performance best practices, and using Typescript as your main driver. We value the depth and quality of your experience over counting years. That said, successful applicants typically have at least 5 years of development experience. You are comfortable in a high-velocity testing environment and can contribute to testing ideation and workflows. You are comfortable working with Figma, CMS platforms like Ghost and Prismic, and web tracking software (Google Tag Manager, Segment, etc). You have closely collaborated with folks from Marketing and Design in previous roles. Bonus: If you have engineering experience supporting search engine optimization, web experimentation, and web tracking projects.
