UXE - UI Engineer

s role at Nutanix is an excellent opportunity to influence the design process, improve our customer's experience, and drive innovation**.**

Engineering / R&D at Nutanix

Nutanix is a global guide in cloud software and a pioneer in hyper-converged infrastructure solutions, making computing invisible anywhere. Companies worldwide use Nutanix software to leverage a single platform to manage any app at any location or scale for their private, hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

"Design" and "Customer delight" are embedded into every step of our product cycle. Nutanix has a design-first philosophy that brings consumer-grade design and web-scale engineering together to create a fantastic user experience only seen in the consumer world with the likes of Apple and Tesla. Visit our career's page to know more about life at Nutanix.

Your Role

• Support the React component UI team in the creation and maintenance according to the Design System.

• Educate Engineering teams about the Design System best practices and consumption, as well as improve accessibility in the UI.

• Create prototypes, from micro-interactions to fully functional workflows, with multiple variations and customizations, to deliver delightful experiences and test them with our customers. Rapidly build improved prototypes through iterations based on customer feedback.

• Work with research to create prototypes for proof of concepts.

• Build and maintain platforms to expose prototypes both internally (Designers & Engineers) and externally (Customers)

• Work closely with UX and Graphic Designers to ensure the correct use of Nutanix's Design System.

• Analyze sketches and wire-frames, pre-prototype phase, to guide Designers, to optimize Design deliverables upstream.

• Educate Designers about our Component Libraries' basics to allow them to build real-world functional interfaces.

• Be the liaison between Design and Engineering teams and involved in fit and finish reviews to ensure smooth communication and requirements understanding on both sides to ensure intuitive and high-quality interfaces on final products and services.

• Build and maintain tools and infrastructure to ease the prototyping process and write comprehensive documentation for their usage.

What You Will Bring

• 3+ years of UI / Front End development experience

• Strong experience with JavaScript, ES6

• Strong experience with HTML 5 and CSS 3 & CSS Modules Levels 4+

• Strong experience with one or more JS Frameworks & Libraries (React, Angular, Vue, Backbone) and Single Page Applications

• Experience with one or more Pre-processors (Sass, Less, Stylus)

• Comfortable with Git (GitHub, Gerrit)

• Experience with NPM/Yarn

• Deep understanding and sensibility to Graphic & UX Design

• Basic knowledge of Design tools (Figma, Sketch, Illustrator)

• Basic knowledge in Semantic & Accessibility Standards

• Good interpersonal and communication skills

• Problem-solving and empathy mindset

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Responsive Design, Fluid Layouts, Grid Systems, Flexbox

• Experience with Visualization Libraries (D3)

• Experience with React Hooks, Redux, React Router

• Experience with Webpack

• Experience with CI/CD (CircleCI)

• Experience with Node.js scripting

• Experience with CSS & SVG Animations, and Lottie

• Experience with Databases (Firebase)

• Experience with Back End development (Php, Python etc.)

• Experience with Unit Tests & Visual Regression Tests

• Experience with HTTP / Web Servers (Linux, Unix, Apache etc.)

Nutanix is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer, and we are committed to building and sustaining a culture where people of all backgrounds are valued, know they belong, and believe they can succeed here. We focus on creating a diverse and inclusive workplace environment and all applicants will be considered for employment based on qualifications, experience, and skills without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, veteran status, or age. If this sounds interesting, apply now!

About the Team

About Your Manager:

Mansi Salvi, Senior Design Manager

• Mansi holds a degree in Electronics Engineering and a post-graduation in New Media Design from NID

• Worked at SAP, July Systems, Cisco, and currently at Nutanix

• Passionate about product design and values a dynamic team

What The Team Says: Leadership values design as integral to strategy and product development

How We Work: Team works in a hybrid work environment with a focus on collaboration and innovation