Grommet Open Source UI Developer

Job description

Job ID 1030431 Date posted 8/27/2018 Primary Location Palo Alto, California, United States Job Category Engineering Schedule Full time Shift No shift premium (United States of America)

At Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), we live by three core values that drive our business: Partner. Innovate. Act. These values combine to help us create important work all over the world to advance how people live and work.

We’re solving the world’s most complex challenges, and our people are at the forefront of progress. Working at HPE, you’ll have the resources to develop your talent and creativity. Are you ready to unleash your potential?

As part of the Software Defined and Cloud Group’s Chief Design Office at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, you will be making our user experience design vision a reality.  You will be a developer behind the open source Grommet project ( http://grommet.io ), Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s most successful open source project.  With nearly 300,000 downloads, and over 100 contributors, Grommet continues to be adopted as one of the premier ReactJS frameworks both within HPE and in the open source community. 

The Grommet team is a small, agile, and high-caliber team with visibility at the highest levels of HPE. The broader team is responsible for the design of HPE OneSphere, HPE OneView, and other HPE initiatives.  If you have a proven sense of modern design and passion for developing rich, interactive web applications based on ReactJS, this is the opportunity for you!  You will consult and collaborate with product designers, product managers, engineers, the brand team, and 3rd party agencies to deliver modern experiences.

In addition, you’ll be participating in research, planning, and developing web components to meet project needs that align to the theme and application design for the mutual benefit of both users and the business. 

Responsibilities

·  Contribute to implementation by enhancing existing components, resolving issues, augmenting the documentation, and creating new example applications.
·  Engage with the Grommet community and act as a Grommet evangelist via Slack channels

Knowledge & Skills

·  Passionate about delivering world-class user experiences
·  Demonstrated competence with ReactJS, JavaScript, and HTML5 skills
·  Experience with Sass & CSS3 and responsive component design
·  Experience in developing components that meet the WC3 Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
·  Experience with CI/CD tools like Heroku, AWS, Travis, and/or David-DM
·  Proficient with GitHub and the contributor workflow
·  Comfortable working in a self-managing team of experts
·  Operates under the highest of self-imposed standards in fit and finish
·  Great collaboration skills with willingness engage with peers within and outside HPE
·  Embodies a spirit of collaboration with a positive and approachable personality
·  Proven track record of solving complex problems with creativity and simplicity
·  Please submit your GitHub ID so we can review your portfolio

Education

·  Bachelors’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent

HPE is an equal opportunity employer/Female/Minority/Individual with Disabilities/Protected Veteran Status

We offer:

A competitive salary and extensive social benefits

Diverse and dynamic work environment

Work-life balance and support for career development

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