UX Engineer
Job Title: UX Engineer
Function: Product & Engineering
Position Type: Full-time
Position Level: Senior
Travel: Minimum travel may be required
At NurseFly, we’re on a mission to transform hiring and recruiting in healthcare. We’re a high impact and positive impact business working to efficiently and cost effectively match the right talent to the right jobs in the healthcare sector, and as a result, help reduce healthcare costs and improve patient care.
We’re starting by bringing transparency and increased access to the opaque and offline $17 billion temporary healthcare staffing industry. We empower nurses and other healthcare professionals across the country by giving them unprecedented access to honest, transparent, and real-time information to aid them in their job search. We connect candidates to the highest paying, most relevant travel healthcare jobs in the country and we help enable research around the best places to work.
Our goal is to help healthcare professionals take the headache out of finding a great job, and for healthcare employers, making it easier and faster to find great talent. Through the NurseFly platform, we enable staffing agencies and healthcare employers to more find relevant talent, communicate more efficiently, and make better hiring decisions, ultimately enabling them to serve patients more safely and effectively.
THE OPPORTUNITY
This is an opportunity to be directly involved in both the Design and Engineering teams at NurseFly. You will be one of the first few people to join this team and help us build a culture of design thinking coupled with engineering excellence.
As a UX Engineer, you will be the pivotal go-between for two organizations that need to work closely together to ensure the best possible execution of our goal to simplify healthcare staffing. By working closely with designers and building out a reusable and extensible component library based on our design system, you’ll speed engineering efforts across the org and allow other engineers to spend more time focusing on functionality instead of front-end requirements.
THE TEAM
NurseFly is small and rapidly growing. Our Design team is tasked with not only ensuring an incredible user experience for both healthcare providers and staffing recruiters alike, but also with imagining and visualizing just how the future of healthcare staffing should be. We work very closely with the Product and Engineering teams to iteratively improve our current offering while also placing some big bets on what the future of our industry could hold.
THE SKILL SET
- Extensive experience with browser specific front-end technologies and a passion for semantic HTML and CSS optimized for rendering speed
- Expertise in best Sass practices
- Experience building components via React-js, Redux, Next.js
- Expertise in building fully responsive layouts with a keen eye for the visual details
- React-native experience a bonus
- Experience maintaining an open-source project or a component library also a bonus
- Bachelors degree or equivalent experience preferred
WITHIN ONE MONTH, YOU’LL...
- have audited our existing front-end code and build systems.
- gain familiarity with all that NurseFly does and one day aims to do.
- get to know the teams in San Francisco, Denver, and Medellin.
WITHIN THREE MONTHS, YOU’LL...
- have committed the beginnings of a reusable component library for a piece of the NurseFly product.
- have worked closely with designers on a plan to componentize much of the product.
WITHIN SIX MONTHS, YOU’LL...
- have ported over the bulk of the front-end code to use the reusable components from the design system.
- have helped the rest of the engineering team capitalize on the design-system-driven components.
- have been responsible for measured improvements in page load time and reduced browser re-renders
WITHIN TWELVE MONTHS, YOU’LL...
- be an expert in the NurseFly codebase
- have cleaned up old, unused code in favor of flexible and reusable components that can adapt to new use cases as they arise
- have contributed to entirely new features and lines of business that helped NurseFly capitalize on the potential in the healthcare staffing market
BENEFITS & PERKS
- Comprehensive Health Insurance Plans including HSA and FSA Options
- Pet Insurance
- Flexible Time Off
- 401K Retirement Savings Plan with Generous Employer Match
- Access to Corporate Discount Program
- Pre-tax Commuter Benefit Plan
NurseFly is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law.
We do not accept resumes from agencies, headhunters, or other suppliers who have not signed a formal agreement with us.