REA-029 Senior Software Engineer, Design System
Toronto or Remote (ON, BC, AB)
Our client is the commercial real estate industry’s leading technology platform that transforms how strategic decisions are made and executed across the asset lifecycle. In 2013, our client revolutionized the commercial real estate industry’s leasing operations with their core product. Today, the platform is the largest first-party data source in the industry and delivers data insights and solutions for everyone in commercial real estate to fuel their investment and asset strategy, leasing and marketing automation, property operations, and tenant experience.
With the platform every business stakeholder in commercial real estate is given the real-time market information and executional capabilities to do their job with unparalleled speed and intelligence. Our client is the global leader with more than 60% of Class A office space in the U.S., and 12 billion square feet of office, retail, and industrial space is managed through our platform globally. Their user base includes over 45,000 CRE professionals and industry-leading customers such as Blackstone, Brookfield Properties, LaSalle Investment Management, Hines, Boston Properties, Oxford Properties, JLL, and CBRE.
Our client maintains offices in New York City, London, Toronto, Chicago, San Francisco, and San Diego.
As our Senior Software Engineer you will be leading the engineering efforts of planning, designing, developing, and rolling out the design system of their core platform. You will also take a lead role in advancing their front-end craft, recommending initiatives and evangelizing state-of-the-art practices, techniques, and tools. Every day you will collaborate closely with the wider engineering, product, design, QA organization to ensure the successful adoption of the design system and to guide front-end excellence.
To thrive in this role you must have several years of experience delivering high-quality software with demonstrable experience in a single-page application React stack, and experience building design systems is highly desirable. Experience with backend technologies (e.g. Ruby on Rails, GraphQL) is nice to have. You are a practitioner of an agile software process, can work autonomously and in a self-directed manner with the support of the larger team, and have strong values towards good testing practices. You enjoy collaborating with other engineers for code reviews, pair programming, and software design, and have experience architecting solutions to problems in a thoughtful way.
Here’s what you can expect as a Senior Software Engineer, Design System
- Shipping customer value within small, cross-functional teams as a part of a larger (250+ person) product, engineering, design, and QA teams
- Deploying daily and relying heavily on a variety of QA strategies including automated testing and CI
- Participating in group code reviews and being a part of a knowledge-sharing culture
- Using agile development and lean startup principles and practices to deliver products