UX Software Engineer

Aptible is looking for a UX Software Engineer to help make Aptible the best security management platform for startups.

At Aptible, we believe we can build an internet of trust by empowering software teams to embrace security and speak more fluently about risk and data privacy.  To do this, we are looking for an experienced Frontend/UX Software Engineer to collaborate with product designers and software engineers to ship new and exciting features for our flagship product, Gridiron.

As the first UX Engineer, you’ll:

• Take ownership of our internal design system built in React + Flow + Tailwind.css
• Act as the technical extension of our product design team and help bring our design vision to life with pixel-perfect precision
• Represent the voice of the user and work to constantly improve the user-friendliness of our products

About You: Strengths

• Product & Design Sense: You're comfortable making product and design decisions independently.
• Problem Solving Skills: You invest time upfront in understanding the root of problems before acting. 
• Communications Skills: You have experience explaining complicated concepts and drafting clear communications that demonstrate attention to detail.
• Collaboration Skills: You actively participate in Design, Technology, and Product discussions. You give and receive actionable feedback from both the Design and Engineering Teams.
• Comfort with Ambiguity: You have the ability to translate loose requirements into functional features, and apply existing design principles to new ideas. You know when to prototype unproven ideas before writing production code. 
• Desire to Learn Our Tools: You seek and have the ability to learn the tools we use today, and the new tools we might use tomorrow. Knowledge of what we use today is a plus. 1) Component-Based Frontend Framework (e.g. React) 2) Web Development Basics (e.g. Javascript, HTML, CSS) 3) CSS-in-JS
• Design & Design System Experience: You have a passion for and experience working directly as a Designer or very closely with a Design Team. You have the ability to build, maintain, or use a design system.

About You: Other Attributes

• Ownership Mentality: You take ownership, responsibility, and initiative. You have a track record of consistently delivering impactful, high-quality work on time.
• People-Oriented: You’re excited to work with a small group of high-performers. You foster collaboration, build trust, and support information sharing with colleagues.
• Love for Learning: You’re looking for an environment that challenges you to gain new knowledge and grow professionally every day. You’re adaptable in the face of change.
• Appetite for Remote Work: You’re ready to work with a fully distributed team, communicating asynchronously, deliberately, and openly across time zones and cultures.
• Passion for Internet Security: You want to create a more secure Internet, and are excited to help innovative companies solve their hardest engineering and regulatory problems.

Why Aptible

• Making the Internet safe to trust with sensitive data is a good thing! It’s also pretty fun. You’ll learn a lot about Security, Compliance, DevOps, and SaaS.
• You’ll feel invested in your work and make an impact. We’re highly transparent internally with business strategy, important decisions, and our failures and successes.
• You’ll help build a business for the long-term and invest in a sustainable business model. We’re backed by excellent investors and have the resources we need to do a great job.
• Everyone gets to live in the place that suits them best. We work remotely, and meet up at least twice a year in places like Barcelona, Mexico, and New York. Next Up: Paris?

Job Details

• Commitment: Full-Time
• Location: Anywhere
• Compensation: Competitive Salary, Equity, Health Benefits, Flexible Paid Time Off