Design System Frontend Developer

Position Overview:

The State of Michigan is working to improve the experience of interacting with government by creating a smooth and easy process. As a frontend developer on our enterprise design system team, you will join a small group of developers and designers responsible for creating accessible, performant, scalable UI components that drive consistence and streamline

development projects. This role will play in integral role in improving the development, testing, and deployment strategies, and act as a liaison between the design system team and development teams to ensure they have successful implementations. The ideal candidate will have a passion for creating highly usable experiences for both end users and developers.

Responsibilities:

- Develop and maintain UI components that are accessible, performant, scalable, and robust.

- Lead the frontend development efforts on large scale content management systems supporting high-visibility websites such as michigan.gov and michiganbusiness.org.

- Create and maintain design system documentation.

- Develop robust automated and manual test plans.

- Streamline build and release processes utilizing Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines.

- Communicate as a frontend development advisor to other development teams, helping them integrate the enterprise design system.

- Facilitate discussions with leadership and stakeholders on design system’s benefits and roadmap.

Qualifications:

- 4+ years of experience designing, architecting, and developing applications using modern JavaScript technologies such as React, Angular, Vue, Typescript.

- Proficient in writing efficient, modular, and scalable CSS using SASS/SCSS, ensuring maintainability and ease of collaboration within development teams.

- Experience building and maintaining reusable, performant, accessible components.

- Experience developing UI components in an enterprise content management system.

- Robust understanding of web components and their utilization in various technology stacks

- Experience working with and publishing NPM packages.

- Experience with GIT and branching and merging strategies.

- Experience with frontend packaging systems (Webpack, Rollup, etc), frontend testing frameworks (Jest, Enzyme, etc.), and linting tools (ESLint, Prettier, etc.)

- Experience and familiarity with web accessibility standards (WCAG)

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

- Experience developing web components utilizing StencilJS is preferred