Engineering Manager, UI Infrastructure
Udacity is on a mission to change lives, businesses and nations through radical talent transformation in digital technologies. We offer a unique and immersive online learning platform, powering corporate technical training in fields such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science, Autonomous Systems, Cloud Computing and more. Our rapidly growing global organization is revolutionizing how the enterprise market bridges the talent shortage and skills gaps during their digital transformation journey. Udacity is proud to be backed by respected investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Charles River Ventures, Bertelsmann and Drive Capital, among other leading VC firms, and provides a powerful and differentiated solution inside of a $32b total addressable market opportunity. Udacity has more than 100 enterprise customers including Airbus, Bertelsmann, BNP Paribas, Leidos, Mazda, and the United States Air Force.
We are looking for an exceptional engineering manager to help lead and grow this high-impact team.
The UI Infrastructure team sets out to increase the productivity of frontend engineers, manage a platform responsible for driving a consistent user experience, and define best practices for frontend applications across the organization. We own an ecosystem of UI Infrastructure packages, such as a Design System, performance monitoring tools, accessibility monitoring, and more. We help educate the rest of the organization on the latest frontend best practices, and ensure that each team can ship the most efficient, secure, and user-friendly applications possible. The most common languages and frameworks we use are Typescript, Javascript, React, and Node.
As the leader of the UI Infrastructure team, you’ll grow the team and you'll be hands on keyboard building UI Infrastructure in order to support the Product Engineering teams. You would be working with a team that cares deeply about improving the lives of others, both our fellow Udacians as well as our students.
What You'll Do:
- Hire, Grow, and lead a best in class team.
- Collaborate with designers to continually improve and expand our Design System
- Build and maintain UI Infrastructure packages that support the Developer experience
- Provide support to other developers by fixing bugs and answering questions
- Build tools to monitor and improve important site metrics like performance and accessibility
- Ensure our product and features are built with security as a first priority.
- Collaborate with engineers across the organization to discover problems common across teams that we can help solve
- Assist in documenting procedures and processes, and educating other engineers on best practices
What We Value:
- 2+ years of experience leading teams.
- 3+ years of professional front-end engineering experience
- Deep knowledge of HTML and CSS or SASS
- Experience with a modern web framework, such as React
- Solid understanding of the ins and outs of modern web applications
- Strong background in Javascript and/or TypeScript
- A user-centric and empathetic mindset
Learn more about Udacity's Values
Students First - Better Together - Entrepreneurial - Data Driven - Candid and Direct - Talent Obsessed
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