Senior Engineer - Full Stack (Design Systems)

Job Description

When you join Verizon

You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely — even if they’re daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love — driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together — lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the V Team Life.

Job DescriptionWhat you’ll be doing…
As part of Verizon’s Experience Design team, you’ll have the chance to impact one of the largest consumer presences in America, supporting millions of daily customer interactions across an omnichannel ecosystem and a growing consumer product portfolio. With global offices and hybrid work environments, the team is assembling the brightest designers, design strategists, and product managers to collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams, shaping the future of the customer experience.As a member of the Verizon Design Systems team, you will drive the continued evolution and adoption of a world-class, multi-channel Design System comprising a visual language, an interaction language, a verbal and audio language, patterns for use, and coded templates and components for implementation. The Design System team provides creative direction, interfaces with teams across our B2C, B2B, Media, Technology, and Marketing divisions, and is accountable for the successful development and integration of the Design System into hundreds of millions of dollars of development work that enables billions of customer touchpoints.As a Senior Engineer Consultant, you will develop and maintain the servers/applications to ensure smooth functioning at all times.You will be responsible for developing solutions to system initiatives, scripting coding, and testing applications, and resolving issues occurring within programming independently. Working with partners in product, technology, and business, you will collaborate on a wide range of design programs or products.Your day-to-day responsibilities may include:

• Develop and maintain infrastructure and ensure the availability of the servers/applications.
• Thoroughly exploring, refining, and documenting the development solutions.
• Actively exploring user context, and engaging in target user activities when possible.
• Participating in insight-gathering activities (informal or formal, primary or secondary) and creating solutions that leverage user insights.
• Actively researching competitive products, industry trends, and topics, and recommending activities, solutions, and methods to guide team members and stakeholders
• Staying updated on Verizon's business, strategy, and organizational structure.
• Effectively designing solutions within Verizon's business context and revenue model.
• Maintaining a working knowledge of UI standards for common platforms (iOS, Android, Web).
• Working within Verizon's front-end and back-end technology constraints and capabilities.
• Giving and receiving constructive feedback.
• Communicating the current project plan, goals, and expected outcomes.
• Articulating user, business, and/or technical reasoning for detailed design decisions in critiques or presentations.
• Mentoring peers and new hires by sharing experiences and processes to enable growth.
• Identifying project needs and engaging stakeholders in conversation to fully understand needs.
• Presenting work and engaging in constructive dialogue with stakeholders to understand the context of tasks and ensure strong design rationale.
• Contributing to recommendations for shaping appropriate user insight-gathering activities (informal or formal, primary or secondary).
• Playing a role in evolving the design system by proposing updates and participating in feedback opportunities
• Exploring, refining, and documenting engineering solutions while adhering to design system guidelines
• Participate in the interview and evaluation process as requested, based on the interview approach defined by the team.

What we’re looking for…You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Four or more years of relevant work experience.
• Experience with Agile software delivery environments.
• Experience with containerisation and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with DevOps tools and platforms (eg. Jenkins, Gitlab CI, Terraform, Ansible).
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS and GCP.
• Experience with NodeJS, JavaScript (ES5, ES6+), ExpressJS and NestJS.
• In-depth knowledge of database technologies such as MongoDB, PostgreSQL, or MySql.
• Good understanding of DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code and automated testing.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science.
• Experience with GraphQL, Typescript, HTML, CSS, Object Oriented JavaScript, React Js and headless CMS.
• Experience with Fortune 500 organizational environments.
• Experience with code security tools like Sonarcube, Blackduck and Fortify scan.
• Experience with Micro Frontend and Code versioning tools such as Git or Gitlab.
• Hands-on experience in writing Unit Tests using mocha, chai or Jest.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.#CXO

Where you’ll be working

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Diversity and Inclusion

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. At Verizon, we know that diversity makes us stronger. We are committed to a collaborative, inclusive environment that encourages authenticity and fosters a sense of belonging. We strive for everyone to feel valued, connected, and empowered to reach their potential and contribute their best. Check out our diversity and inclusion page to learn more.