Engineer​/Sr Engineer, IT UX

Job Description

Are you ready to explore a world of possibilities, both at work and during your time off? Join our American Airlines family, and you’ll travel the world, grow your expertise and become the best version of you. As you embark on a new journey, you’ll tackle challenges with flexibility and grace, learning new skills and advancing your career while having the time of your life.

Feel free to enrich both your personal and work life and hop on board!

• This job is a member of the User Experience (UX) team within the Information Technology division at American Airlines.
• American is transforming the way we deliver software and solutions for our customers. As part of this transformation, the UX organization is championing Design Systems methodology to create and maintain reusable components that will lead to more efficient and consistent product design.
• As an Engineer, you will design, build, and operate systems in American's development environment in collaboration with users, product partners, software vendors, and other Engineering teams to increase the speed, reliability, and value of our systems.
• We build and maintain end-to-end solutions at scale for our customers and employees across the enterprise, meeting their expectations with the right tools, platforms, and experiences that deliver on caring for people on life's journey.

As noted above, this list is intended to reflect the current job but there may be additional essential functions (and certainly non-essential job functions) that are not referenced. Management will modify the job or require other tasks to be performed whenever it is deemed appropriate to do so, observing, of course, any legal obligations including any collective bargaining obligations.

• Manage and evolve design system architecture by improving performance, reliability, scalability, testing automation, and issue/vulnerability mitigation to align with AA's modernization journey
• Build design system artifacts that meet user needs and follow organizational IT standards, process, and infrastructure, as well as industry best practices and trends in reusability, accessibility, and design system methodology
• Own the technical strategy and implementation of a highly scalable design system, and translate technical direction into easily understandable language for all levels of technical expertise
• Maintain a balanced workload with fellow engineers and provide mentorship/instruction to junior engineers
• Collaborate with Engineers, Designers and Product partners to understand requirements and drive timely execution in an Agile environment
• Enable product teams in their modernization journey to maintain the highest levels of development practices and standards when writing clean, modular and self-sustaining code
• Contribute to measuring success of the design system through quantitative metrics that prove the value of reusability and consistency
• Produce clear, actionable guidelines that help designers and developers understand the design system
• Regularly audit the design system to remove redundancy and improve load times

Minimum Qualifications
- Education & Prior Job Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in software engineering, computer science, information systems or other related discipline, or equivalent experience
• 3 years of experience in web-based, front-end user interface development or similar
• Full stack web development: HTML, CSS and Java script, Web components, Lit (or similar)
• Experience in Scrum/Agile development environments

Preferred Qualifications
- Education & Prior Job Experience

• 5+ years of experience in delivering enterprise design systems at scale, including web-based, front-end user interface development or similar Experience working on enterprise design systems
• Experience working with UX/UI (research, information architecture, design)
• Modern frameworks like Angular or React
• E-commerce and/or airline industry experience

Skills, Licenses & Certifications

• Experience with design, prototyping, and component library tools such as Figma, Adobe XD or similar
• Accessibility best practices: WCAG 2.0+ AA compliance, localization,…