Overview
Frontend Web Engineer: Design System at Just Eat Takeaway.com.
Ready for a challenge? Then Just Eat Takeaway.com might be the place for you. We’re a leading global online delivery platform, and our vision is to empower everyday convenience. Whether it’s a Friday-night feast, a post-gym poke bowl, or grabbing some groceries, our tech platform connects tens of millions of customers with hundreds of thousands of restaurant, grocery and convenience partners across the globe.
About This Role: Love solving real frontend problems at scale? Our design system team is the backbone of how we build consistent, accessible experiences across web and mobile. In this Frontend Web Engineer: Design System role you will work developing and maintaining UI components for the web, partner closely with designers, and support teams across the company in delivering great UI. We are looking for someone who cares about delivering good frontend experiences and quality products. As part of a service team, you'll empower other engineers and teams by providing support and guidance on our design system and its contribution process.
Location note: Please note that this position is located in Bristol OR Berlin (3 days a week from our office and 2 days working from home).
Responsibilities
* Collaborate across functions: Work closely with designers, mobile engineers, and other web developers to build, maintain, and evolve our design system.
* Build and maintain robust UI components for web: Develop high-quality, accessible, and performant web components that serve as the building blocks for our applications.
* Champion best practices: Advocate for and implement best practices in frontend engineering, ensuring code quality, consistency, and reusability.
* Ensure accessibility (a11y): Proactively integrate accessibility standards into all components and documentation, making sure our products are usable by everyone.
* Empower through documentation: Create clear, comprehensive, and engaging documentation that enables engineers across the organization to effectively use our design system.
* Provide support and guidance: Act as a resource for other engineers, helping them understand and implement our design system effectively.
Tech Stack Overview
* We build Web Components with Lit, Sass and TypeScript, and maintain a Legacy React Component library.
* We use Storybook for developing, documenting and testing our web components.
* CI uses Github Actions with infrastructure including our documentation living in AWS.
* Components integrate with React/Next.js and Vue/Nuxt; experience with these frameworks is a plus.
You can find our design system documentation at https://pie.design/. Our Web library is open source at https://github.com/justeattakeaway/pie. Our technical documentation is at https://webc.pie.design/.
What will you bring to the team?
* A background as a frontend web developer, with expertise in core technologies like JavaScript, TypeScript and modern frameworks.
* Practical experience building and maintaining component libraries.
* A solid understanding of CSS and HTML.
* Familiarity with the principles of design systems, including the usage and value of design tokens.
* Practical experience with various testing methodologies like unit, accessibility, browser, and visual regression testing.
* You have a keen eye for detail, with knowledge of web accessibility (a11y) and performance best practices.
Nice-to-haves
* Experience with contribution models for open-source projects or internal libraries.
* Prior experience in building and maintaining Web Components and Lit.
* Experience creating accessible products and testing for accessibility.
* Experience working with frameworks such as React, Vue, Next.js or Nuxt, so you can better understand how to author components for these platforms.
Culture & Inclusion
At JET, this is on the menu: Our teams forge connections internally and work with some of the best-known brands on the planet, giving us international impact in a dynamic environment. Fun, fast-paced and supportive, the JET culture is about movement, growth and celebrating every aspect of our JETers. Inclusion, Diversity & Belonging: No matter who you are, what you look like, who you love, or where you are from, you can find your place at Just Eat Takeaway.com. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture, encouraging diversity of people and thinking, in which all employees feel they truly belong and can bring their most colourful selves to work every day.
Next steps
Are you ready to take your seat? Apply now!
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