Product Design Engineer
Job description
Major League Hacking is looking for a remote, contract Product Design Engineer to join the team responsible for building the products that help aspiring software engineers level up and launch their careers. The software that you and your team write will power the largest community of early career developers in the world and help redefine the future of work & technical education.
Responsibilities:
Design Rich User Experiences. You’ll be the primary designer for our user experiences and product. You’ll be speaking to our team and end users to create and implement components, page layouts, and interactive elements. You will have access to illustrators on our team for visual art and assets.
Write Code. You’ll work closely with the rest of our engineers to turn your designs into beautiful, functional code that our users enjoy interacting with. You’ll use Figma, React, and TailwindCSS to implement frontends for a Ruby on Rails backend.
Build WYSIWYG Marketing Sites. You’ll be responsible for designing and implementing UI components in headless and headed CMS platforms for our marketing-centric web-properties.
Contribute to our Engineering Culture. Your contributions will help shape a world-class engineering culture that values shipping high-quality software. You'll implement and benefit from industry best-practices including code reviews, pair programming, CI/CD, testing, and more.
About Major League Hacking (MLH): Major League Hacking (MLH) is rethinking technical education for the modern world. Now that every company is a technology company, we need faster and more effective ways to train the talent that everyone depends on. Our unique hands-on, community-driven approach has helped more than 1,000,000 technologists worldwide launch their careers and stay up-to-date with the latest trends. If you're passionate about technology, education, and the future of work – this is the place for you!
We’re a team of 15 full-time people with offices in New York City and Bangalore/Delhi.
Our co-founders, Swift and Jon, were recognized for their work in education by Forbes in the 2017 30 Under 30 list.
We work with some of the top technology brands like Google, MongoDB, Snowflake/Streamlit, and Figma to help them reach our community and get the latest and greatest tools into their hands.
We have a group of world-class investors focused on technology and impacting technical education including General Catalyst, Alexis Ohanian (Reddit), Jeff Lawson (Twilio), Rethink Education, Jobs for the Future, and Reach Capital.
We are a mission driven B Corp, committed to responsibly serving the world and our community.
If you’ve found yourself excited thinking about this role, even if you don’t quite meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply. Hacking is all about figuring out different solutions to problems, and showing how your experience might serve as a substitute for our requirements might be your first hack with us.
We serve a diverse community and perspectives of women, people of color, LGBTQIA+ people, and those with backgrounds typically not served by technology help us serve our community more deeply. We strongly encourage applications from people with these identities or who are members of other marginalized communities.
Job requirements
Experience with React JS and Tailwind CSS, we’re a Rails & React shop
Ability to use Figma to design components and implement them in React
Experience in TDD and modern development practices
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Impeccable organizational and project management skills
An interest in reimagining the future of education and work
Ability to be online for synchronous meetings with the rest of the engineering team from 9am-1pm EST. Async work may take place out of that time block, as our team is globally distributed.
