Front-End Developer Manager / Lead

Introduction

The Carbon Design System is IBM’s open-source design system for products and experiences. With the IBM Design Language primitives at its core, Carbon consists of working code, design tools and resources, and guidelines—all serving, and served by, a vibrant community of contributors.

A design system is a collection of pre-built, reusable assets—components, patterns, guidance, and code—allowing users to build consistent digital experiences faster. Using the pre-built and universal assets of Carbon minimizes the time teams spend designing and building. Instead of building and re-building basic elements, they can spend that time customizing their products to address specific client use cases.

The design system is named Carbon Design System because in nature the element carbon builds complex structures from simpler compounds. This motif mimics how our styles and components can combine to make beautifully complex, natural, and intuitive designs.

Your Role And Responsibilities

The Carbon Design System team is looking for a Front-End Web Developer Lead to become part of the team responsible for delivering Carbon’s core system to IBM. In this role, you will be developing in the heart of the Carbon ecosystem leveraging the latest front-end development methodologies, tools, and techniques. You will be instrumental in bringing industry-defining software products, cloud services, and web applications to users worldwide and making a global impact by delivering innovative user experiences. This role will be responsible for building a new team of developers co-located in Ireland, with the expectation of operating as a technical leader and people manager. This role will also be responsible for working with web standards communities to advance new emerging standards and UI capabilities.

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

• 7+ years of experience in web front-end development
• 3+ years of experience in developing high-performing, large, accessible and responsive websites
• Strong expertise in building and maintaining modern, accessible, tested, and scalable frontend web experiences.
• Strong experience running small to mid-size teams using Agile Scrum methodologies
• Extensive experience in creating and maintaining CI/CD workflows, such as Jenkins, Github workflows, Netlify, etc.
• Extensive experience with modern JavaScript frameworks, ideally React and Web Components.
• Deep knowledge of HTML, CSS, Sass, JavaScript, and TypeScript.
• Prior track record of cross-functional collaboration with designers
• Experience managing less senior developers as a first-line people manager
• Experience developing production applications as a front-end technical leader
• Excellent written/async communication skills and experience operating as part of a global team
  
  

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

• Building or maintaining a design system
• Using a design system
• Deep knowledge of web accessibility
• GitHub - projects, issue management, actions, etc.
• Open source project maintainership, development, governance, community, etc.
• Experience with using Figma