American Airlines · 23 hours ago
Engineer/Sr Engineer, IT UX
Dallas, TX
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
3+ years expAmerican Airlines is a global airline that is transforming the way it delivers software and solutions for its customers. The role involves designing, building, and operating systems within the User Experience (UX) team, focusing on creating a scalable design system and collaborating with various partners to meet user needs.
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Responsibilities
Manage and evolve design system architecture by improving performance, reliability, scalability, testing automation, and issue/vulnerability mitigation to align with AA's modernization journey
Build design system artifacts that meet user needs and follow organizational IT standards, process, and infrastructure, as well as industry best practices and trends in reusability, accessibility, and design system methodology
Own the technical strategy and implementation of a highly scalable design system, and translate technical direction into easily understandable language for all levels of technical expertise
Maintain a balanced workload with fellow engineers and provide mentorship/instruction to junior engineers
Collaborate with Engineers, Designers and Product partners to understand requirements and drive timely execution in an Agile environment
Enable product teams in their modernization journey to maintain the highest levels of development practices and standards when writing clean, modular and self-sustaining code
Contribute to measuring success of the design system through quantitative metrics that prove the value of reusability and consistency
Produce clear, actionable guidelines that help designers and developers understand the design system
Regularly audit the design system to remove redundancy and improve load times
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in software engineering, computer science, information systems or other related discipline, or equivalent experience
3 years of experience in web-based, front-end user interface development or similar
Full stack web development: HTML, CSS and Javascript, Web components, Lit (or similar)
Experience in Scrum/Agile development environments
Experience with design, prototyping, and component library tools such as Figma, Adobe XD or similar
Accessibility best practices: WCAG 2.0+ AA compliance, localization, inclusive design
Understanding of components and patterns of a design system and how each design choice is able to scale
Ability to express design principles and generate consensus over to achieve on the vision
Experience with iPhone/Android app design
Preferred
5+ years of experience in delivering enterprise design systems at scale, including web-based, front-end user interface development or similar
Experience working on enterprise design systems
Experience working with UX/UI (research, information architecture, visual design)
Modern frameworks like Angular or React
E-commerce and/or airline industry experience
Benefits
Travel Perks: Ready to explore the world? You, your family and your friends can reach 365 destinations on more than 6,800 daily flights across our global network.
Health Benefits: On day one, you’ll have access to your health, dental, prescription and vision benefits to help you stay well. And that’s just the start, we also offer virtual doctor visits, flexible spending accounts and more.
Wellness Programs: We want you to be the best version of yourself – that’s why our wellness programs provide you with all the right tools, resources and support you need.
401(k) Program: Available upon hire and, depending on the workgroup, employer contributions to your 401(k) program are available after one year.
Additional Benefits: Other great benefits include our Employee Assistance Program, pet insurance and discounts on hotels, cars, cruises and more
Company
American Airlines
American Airlines is an airline company that operates a diverse fleet of aircraft, including narrow-body and wide-body jets. It is a sub-organization of American Airlines.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1B2023-11-17Post Ipo Debt· $250M
2023-02-08Post Ipo Debt· $750M
2015-01-01Post Ipo Equity
Leadership Team
Doug Parker
Chairman and former CEO at American Airlines
David Seymour
Chief Operating Officer
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