Senior UI/UX Engineer

Kunai is a fast-growing digital consultancy focused on banking, payments, and fintech powered by a global network that attracts the best and brightest people from all backgrounds and cultures, driven by innovation and experimentation, spread across almost every single continent. Over the past decade, we’ve shipped over 150 products for clients that include Visa, American Express, Capital One, WEX, Wells Fargo, Ernst & Young, and TOMS Shoes. Our founders built a previous agency (Monsoon) that was acquired by Capital One in 2015.

Do you love building and pioneering in the technology space? Do you enjoy solving complex business problems in a fast-paced, collaborative, inclusive, and iterative delivery environment? In this role, you’ll be part of a big group of makers, breakers, doers and disruptors, who solve real problems and meet real customer needs. We are seeking Software Engineering Leaders who are passionate about emerging technologies. You’ll have the opportunity to be on the forefront of modernizing a banking core that powers over $60 billion in annual transaction volume for over 100 million active payment cards for one of the largest credit card issuers in the world.

As a Senior UI/UX Engineer, you’ll work on internal platform development using cutting-edge open source frameworks, closely collaborating with groups of technical software architects, engineers, product managers, and customer success teams to thoughtfully translate complex flows or processes into simple solutions that are easy to use. 

You’ll act as the subject matter expert for all things design and user experience taking on key tasks such as:

• Simplifying and translating complex business and software development workflows into easy-to-use experiences
• Collaborating with partners to create new interface and interactions patterns
• Creating consistent visual conventions across the application
• Working closely with product and customer success teams to gather and incorporate user feedback and feature requests into the interface 
• Identifying and establishing design needs, requirements, and acceptance criteria
• Collaborating with technology, product, and business teams to uncover customer and business needs – then translating them into transformative, intuitive, user friendly, and on-brand interfaces
• Creating and facilitating design led workshops to engage and build alignment across different partners and teams
• Championing prioritization of design centered product enhancements grounded in research and analysis
• Connecting with design community peers by learning, sharing, and teaching
• Creating style guides, iconography, and infographics that can be leveraged by teams
• Driving end-to-end product design

Qualifications:

• At least 5 years of experience in user interface design
• Experience designing software or mobile applications, enterprise applications a bonus
• Experience creating responsive web layouts
• Familiarity with the software development lifecycle and writing code – Ability to work in JavaScript, TypeScript or Python is highly desirable
• Familiarity with product development from inception to release
• Comfortable working with a variety of business partners and delivering outcomes
• Familiarity with design and prototyping tools, such as Sketch and/or Figma
• Familiarity with working in an established design system
• Experience creating components and interactive Wireframes, mockups and interactive
• Experience in HTML, React, CSS.
• Experience in Gravity Framework
• Experience in conducting research using any combination of tools/methods including: User survey, Personas
  hypothesis, Heuristic evaluation, Data analysis, Ethnographic Research, Competitive Analysis,
  A/B testing, Focus groups, Eye tracking, Usability testing

At Kunai, we have built deep relationships with our clients. Our bar is high, and our mission is to always exceed our client’s expectations. If you are fanatical about customer success and driven to work on and solve tough technical challenges, we would love to chat with you!