Manager Front End Developer Design Systems

This is a Hybrid position located in Plano TX. Relocation to Plano TX is required if youre not located in the Dallas TX area.

We are currently seeking a Front End Developer to join our team. We are passionate about advocating for user needs and delivering worldclass products that redefine our customers daytoday financial activities.

At a Glance

The Manager Front End Designer Design Systems sets the tone and strategy of our FS Design System from a development person will Lead as a individual contributor.

Role Focus

The Design System Front End Designer Lead is responsible for setting the tone and strategy of the FS Design System from a development perspective. Theyll work alongside the Design System Visual Design Lead who is responsible for a similar effort from a visual design perspective. Additional responsibilities include:

• Serving as part of the Design Architecture Leadership Team advocating and representing the collective perspective of Design Architectures developers

• Leading the technical design and implementation of the FS Design System including typography color iconography and componentry and the tools resources and documentations to support the system

• Supporting the Head of Design Architecture with the Strategic Direction and Impact of FS Design System (developer focus)

• Learning about FS Design System needs development and adoption as the primary partner to our Tech Leads

• Supporting influence of the Enterprise Design System/Gravity and driving from a development perspective

• Ensuring the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs

• Creating and maintaining automated tests to ensure quality while saving time and money

• Setting technical standards and best practices for the Design Architecture team

• Collaborating with other team members and stakeholders

• Supporting our Design System customers where theyre at through working with them to understand issues and challenges and working with the Design Architecture team to resolve those issues and challenges in an expedient manner

• Reporting team and system progress regularly with a focus on development

• Managing the workload and priorities of additional developers under the direction and support of the Head of Design Architecture

• Providing growth and people leadership for Design System Front End Developers within FS Design Architecture

• Providing additional lift for developer support within team (helping spread existing responsibilities that are shared today)

What Were Looking For

• Systems Thinker: You have a knack for stepping back and looking beyond the immediate problem to see how it fits into the larger ecosystem across channels touchpoints and platforms and then diving in to nail the important details.

• Intrapreneur: Youll think about the team the product and the customer as parts of your own business; it needs a purpose whether to solve a problem entertain educate or delight and youll measure its performance against these goals. You dont wait for the next order to be issued. You seek opportunities and build the case for where the team needs to move next in order to bring the greatest impact.

• DataDriven: You are clear in articulation of intent and goals and you know how to use data and research to back up your work. Youll seek out analytics and user testing data to help you make design decisions support your design decisions and iterate on your past design decisions all so we constantly get better at getting better.

• Facilitator: You are at your best when leading stakeholders and partners through brainstorming sessions workshopping solutions in a truly collaborative fashion.

• Detail Oriented: You impress your teammates with the ability to pick out small nuances that no one else seems to notice. Youre proud that your production files are always pixel perfect and youve thought through every permutation of your designs making the development process smooth sailing.

• Flexible: You know that projects can adjust at the drop of a hat you are adaptable and welcome change.

What Youll Bring

• Indepth knowledge and experience with design systems and a desire to challenge the status quo and innovate

• Deep expertise in design thinking

• Experience delivering highquality specifications and documentation for system additions and enhancements

• A crossdisciplinary mindset and an ability to work directly with a design team to facilitate the building of components patterns and templates

• A passion for creating design solutions that are inclusive and accessible to provide a great experience for all users

• An educational mindset and desire to support system adopters through onboarding sessions 1:1 troubleshooting and ongoing training support

Basic Qualifications

• At least 4 years of experience with frontend technologies (TypeScript Web APIs Deno WebAssembly)

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelors degree

• FrontEnd Technologies & Architecture

• 4 years of experience with UI application architecture and design patterns

• 4 years of experience with build tools (webpack Vite esbuild Rollup)
  4 years of experience with architecture patterns including microservices layered and eventdriven architecture

• UI/UX & Responsive Design
  6 years of designing digital products and experiences
  4 years of experience in responsive adaptive and intrinsic design capabilities
  4 years of experience with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for components and responsive layouts
  4 years of experience translating complex business requirements into manageable building blocks

• HTML Accessibility & Compliance
  4 years of experience with semantic and accessible HTML
  2 years working with W3C standards to enable accessibility best practices for the web and applications
  2 years of experience building digital products where compliance with accessibility standards is part of the definition of done
  2 years of experience with semantic and accessible HTML to meet accessibility requirements (WCAG 2.1 AA ADA Section 508

• Frameworks & APIs
  2 years of experience working on a design system
  2 years of experience with web frameworks (React Angular Lit)
  2 years of experience with HTTPbased APIs (REST RPC GraphQL microservices)
  2 years of experience with a cloud computing provider (AWS Microsoft Azure Google Cloud)

• Leadership & Agile Methodologies
  2 years of experience in a technical leadership role overseeing strategic projects
  2 years of experience in a people management position
  Experience in Agile or Kanban software development methodologies

• Performance Optimization & Mobile Development
  1 year of experience improving load time performance through bundle size analysis or resource optimization
  Experience in native mobile development frameworks and environments (e.g. Swift)

At this time Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

The minimum and maximum fulltime annual salaries for this role are listed below by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for parttime roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.

Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidates offer letter.

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