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OneText Founding UX Engineer

 

We're OneText, a YC backed (Winter '23) startup in the Bay Area, and
we're looking for a founding UX Engineer to completely own and
redefine our dashboard and web checkout experiences.

Apply using this form

Email any questions to: engineering@onetext.com

Job description

 

This is the generalized job description for all engineers at OneText

For this role specifically, we want someone who can act as a founding
Design and UX Engineer. What does that mean?

We want you to take ownership of our UX

 

The entire team has a lot ideas for how our platform should evolve,
which are a great launching-off point and will help you get a running
start in this role.

But: we want to get to the point where the UX is defined by your
vision, where you're willing to fight for that and take complete
ownership of it. We don't like things that are designed by committee.

We want you to redefine our most pivotal experiences:

 

  * Our merchant dashboard, which is the entry point for all of our
    customers and the first thing we show in sales calls
  * Our checkout flow, which allows every single consumer to vault a
    card or paypal account and purchase through OneText
  * Our branded messaging experiences (especially MMS and Whatsapp)

We want you to be a ux engineer with a design background

 

We know we're looking for a unicorn. But we also know how slow the
feedback loop gets when you have a design team handing off to an
engineering team handing off to a design team ad-infinitum.

We want you to be able to come up with a great experience, and make
it happen, with no interruptions in your process or endless reviews
and sign-offs.

It doesn't matter what your process is; you might use Figma or you
might design in code. But we need you to be able to come up with
great user experiences from scratch, without working to a pre-defined
design or wireframe.

We want to you build something new

 

It's tempting to copy existing platforms from our competitors. We
should constantly challenge that temptation, and build something that
is truly unique and the absolute best experience for our customers,
regardless of what has been done before.

That doesn't mean we can't learn from everyone else. We can and
should. We just shouldn't be constrained by them.

We want you to be a great all-round engineer

 

Your role will obviously be primarily on the design and UX side. So
the table stakes are that:

  * You have a strong design background in whatever tools work best
    for you
  * You're proficient with React, and writing great reusable
    components (and tests) that can easily be composed into great
    experiences.
  * You're an expert in CSS (and/or Tailwind) and in building designs
    and layouts that look and work great on any device

But: we only hire full stack engineers. This doesn't mean you need to
be a Node or database expert. But it does mean you need to be willing
to go and learn and poke around in the api when the opportunity
arises, or when it unblocks you to build a perfect user experience.

We want you to level up the entire engineering team

 

Any PRs which touch a user experience, we want you to be there with
an iron fist - reviewing them and making sure they're perfect before
they go out, and helping us level up.

We want you to turn the entire team into stellar UX engineers.

Questions

 

The kinds of questions we'll ask you when we interview you:

  * Show us two or three experiences you've built which you're really
    proud of
      + If you had another 6 months to work on one of them, what
        would you spend the time doing?
  * What's your strategy for speccing out and building the perfect
    React component?
      + How do you know when it's too big, too small, or just right?
      + How do you deal with state management? When should you switch
        from vanilla hooks to something like Redux?
      + How do you deal with accessibility?
      + How do you like to test?
  * What do you think of React? What do you love, what do you hate?
  * What do you think of Tailwind? What do you love, what do you
    hate?
  * What is your favorite dashboard for any online web based
    platform? OK to pick more than one.
      + What do you love about it?
      + What would you change if given the chance?
  * Debate me. Let's pick a topic we disagree on and hash it out.

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