Material Bank is hiring: Staff UI Engineer, Brand Central in New York

Material Bank is a fast-paced, high-growth technology company and created the world's largest material marketplace for the Architecture and Design industry, providing the fastest and most powerful way to start and manage a design project. Learn more about us at www.materialbank.com or see below.

As a Staff UI Engineer specializing in React for our Brand Central Portal, you will take a leading role in designing and implementing the front-end architecture that powers our platform's user experience. Your expertise will guide the development of intuitive, scalable, and responsive UI components, ensuring a seamless and engaging interface for brand owners to manage their online sales and presence. Collaborating with UX designers, backend engineers, and product managers, you will translate complex functional requirements into efficient, aesthetically pleasing web applications. Your commitment to code quality, performance optimization, and adaptive design principles will be crucial in creating a dynamic portal that stands at the forefront of e-commerce innovation, enhancing user satisfaction and driving business success.

What you'll do:

• Develop and maintain the front-end architecture of the Brand Central Portal, ensuring it aligns with the overall technical vision and business goals.
• Collaborate closely with UX designers to translate wireframes and design mockups into interactive and visually appealing user interfaces.
• Optimize UI components and application code for performance, scalability, and responsiveness, ensuring a smooth user experience even during high traffic periods.
• Create and maintain documentation for UI components, coding standards, and best practices to facilitate collaboration among team members.
• Understand the specific needs and challenges of the e-commerce industry and ensure the portal meets those requirements effectively.

What you'll bring:

• Master's degree in Computer Science
• 5+ Strong expertise in React and related libraries, with the ability to design and develop complex user interfaces using React components.
• Proficiency in REACT, Typescript, Javascript, HTML and CSS, including knowledge of CSS preprocessors like SASS or LESS.
• Familiarity with UI/UX design principles and the ability to collaborate effectively with designers to create visually appealing and user-friendly interfaces.
• Knowledge of cross-browser compatibility issues and solutions to ensure consistent performance across different web browsers.
• Create intuitive and responsive User Interfaces (UI) that provide an exceptional user experience, leveraging your expertise in front-end technologies.
• Able to maintain high-performance service requirement.

Preferred Requirements:

• Prior experience building e-commerce customer portals
• High proficiency at problem-solving
• High performance on speed, team player, and details

What you'll get from us:

• Our people: If you thrive in an inclusive, innovative, and fast-paced organization, look no further! You will get to work alongside some of the brightest minds - Join a genuinely fun and supportive workplace where we keep our employees consistently engaged through internal communication and corporate events
• Relaxation and Celebrations: Generous PTO, Sick Days, Paid National Holidays, and even more (ask us about this when we connect).
• Health Benefits: We contribute to your medical, dental, vision and short-term/long-term disability plans and have a strong employee assistance program.
• Plan for your Retirement: 401(k) eligible after your first 90 day's employed!
• Giving Back: We sponsor multiple events throughout the year to help out our communities. You will receive time off to give back as well.
• Growth: We'll help you take your career to the next level. We want you to be creative and take initiative which will allow you to grow and create within the company. Most importantly, be the best at what matters!
• Flexible Work Schedules: With business units and employees across the globe, Material Technologies has embraced a hybrid working model allowing department leaders to decide on the best approach for their respective teams, whether that be remote, in person, or a little of both.

About Material Bank

Material Bank is the world's largest material marketplace for the architecture and design industry, providing the fastest and most powerful way to search and sample materials. Material Bank connects design professionals to hundreds of manufacturers through facilitating brand discovery, rep engagement, and material sampling.

Material Bank has transformed the way an entire industry discovers and samples materials. By removing the friction that exists in the process, we drive business between architects and designers (members) and our Brand Partners (clients).

Our powerful material database and proprietary robotic distribution facility allow members to order samples until midnight (ET) to be delivered free of charge anywhere in the US, in one box, by 10:30 AM the next morning.

Connect with us and discover your career at Material Bank.

Material Bank is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity, and all applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, veteran or disability status or other status protected under any applicable federal, state or local law.