Senior UX Engineer, Design

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Note: Google’s hybrid workplace includes remote and in-office roles. By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following:

In-office locations: Tokyo, Japan.
Remote location(s): Japan.

Minimum qualifications:

• 7 years of experience in front-end engineering.

• Experience with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.

• Experience in web development, implementing user interfaces (UIs), or prototyping.

Preferred qualifications:

• 9 years of experience in front-end engineering.
• Experience in web design, prototyping, and the fundamentals of user experience, including accessibility.
• Experience in React, Vue, or Angular frameworks.
• Experience in Web and Android/iOS platforms.

About the job

At Google, we follow a simple but vital premise: "Focus on the user and all else will follow." Google’s UX Engineers are versatile and passionate about taking on new problems to drive progress and vision for design teams. They’re comfortable wearing many hats and get excited about working across discipline lines to develop products and prototypes that bring new ideas to life.

Google User Experience (UX) is made up of multi-disciplinary teams of UX Designers, Researchers, Writers, Content Strategists, Program Managers, and Engineers: we care deeply about the people who use our products. The UX team plays an integral part in gathering insights about the attitudes, emotions, and behaviors of people who use our products to inspire and inform design. We collaborate closely with each other and with engineering and product management to create industry-leading products that deliver value for the people who use them, and for Google’s businesses.

As a UX Engineer, you'll work as part of a UX team in a challenging, fast-paced environment. You’ll demonstrate your creativity, analytical skills, and knowledge of user facing technologies to create prototypes that identify the best product experiences, launch innovative features, build tools that accelerate UX teams, bridge between design and engineering discussions, and enable efficient, high quality execution.

You’ll be responsible for prototyping ideas for the team to gain insights through user testing, and develop platforms for scaling user understanding across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Deliver innovative, engaging prototypes using the in front-end technologies, including visual effects, graphic design templates, and data visualization through user testing and concept validation.
• Work with cross-functional team of UX Designers, Researchers, and Engineers to inform design and product decisions based on technical feasibility.
• Use web platform technology and a modern front-end stacks to build interactive sites and tools.
• Lead, conceptualize, and develop complex and impactful products with a focus on accessible, inclusive, and user-centered design.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.