Senior UX Engineer, UX Insights & Innovation

1 Month ago • 5-7 Years • UI/UX Design

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Job Description

As a Senior UX Engineer at Google, you'll work within a fast-paced environment, collaborating with designers and researchers to create prototypes and innovative features. You'll bridge design and engineering, ensuring high-quality execution while meeting tight deadlines. Responsibilities include advising on UX design, collaborating on implementation, meeting accessibility standards, and mentoring junior engineers. You will leverage your expertise in front-end development (JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS) and potentially other languages (Swift, Kotlin, etc.) to build responsive and performant web applications. The role requires strong analytical and creative skills to translate user insights into impactful product experiences.
Must have:
  • 5+ years front-end development experience
  • JavaScript or TypeScript proficiency
  • HTML & CSS expertise
  • Collaboration with UX designers & researchers
  • Meeting accessibility standards
Good to have:
  • Experience with modern libraries/frameworks (React, Angular, etc.)
  • Experience with vector and motion graphics
  • Experience with Swift, Kotlin, Dart, Python, Ruby, Java, or C++
  • Mentoring experience
Perks:
  • Bonus
  • Equity
  • Benefits
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Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5 years of experience in front-end development, technical UX design, or prototyping.
  • Experience with JavaScript or TypeScript development.
  • Experience with HTML and CSS.

Preferred qualifications:

  • 7 years of experience developing responsive, adaptive, and performant websites and applications.
  • 5 years of experience as a front-end developer, UX Engineer, creative or design technologist, or in a prototyping design environment.
  • Experience with ES2015+ or TypeScript and modern libraries/frameworks (e.g., Node, Lit, React, Angular).
  • Experience with vector and motion graphics, including SVG, HTML5 Canvas, and animation using JavaScript and CSS (eg. GreenSock, d3, ProcessingJS, and Web Animation API).
  • Experience in one or more of the following: Swift, Kotlin, Dart, Python, Ruby, Java, or C++.

About the job

At Google, we follow a simple but vital premise: "Focus on the user and all else will follow." Google’s UX Engineers are versatile and passionate about taking on new problems to drive progress and vision for design teams. They’re comfortable wearing many hats and get excited about working across discipline lines to develop products and prototypes that bring new ideas to life.

Google User Experience (UX) is made up of multi-disciplinary teams of UX Designers, Researchers, Writers, Content Strategists, Program Managers, and Engineers: we care deeply about the people who use our products. The UX team plays an integral part in gathering insights about the attitudes, emotions, and behaviors of people who use our products to inspire and inform design. We collaborate closely with each other and with engineering and product management to create industry-leading products that deliver value for the people who use them, and for Google’s businesses.

As a UX Engineer, you'll work as part of a UX team in a challenging, fast-paced environment. You’ll demonstrate your creativity, analytical skills, and knowledge of user facing technologies to create prototypes that identify the best product experiences, launch innovative features, build tools that accelerate UX teams, bridge between design and engineering discussions, and enable efficient, high quality execution.

The web is what you make of it and our team is helping the world make more of the web. From open-source pros to user-experience extraordinaires, we develop products that help users connect, communicate and collaborate with others. Our consumer products and cloud platforms are giving millions of users at homes, businesses, universities and nonprofits around the world the tools that shape their web experience -- and changing the way they think about computing.

User experience is at the forefront of how we create intuitive, innovative, and beautiful products that people love. We strive to learn and understand our users’ needs, behaviors, and emotions to gather insights that inform product strategy and design. Our UX teams include designers, researchers, content strategists, and engineers who are passionate about quality, usability, and simplicity. We work on collaborative teams to solve complex challenges and craft experiences that highlight our products’ unique capabilities and personalities. Our work touches billions while exemplifying a key principle that is core to Google’s philosophy: “Focus on the user and all else will follow.”

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $142,000-$211,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about .

Responsibilities

  • Fulfill several project requests simultaneously while meeting tight deadlines.
  • Advise, collaborate with, and synthesize feedback from UX designers and researchers.
  • Collaborate with other engineers on final implementation and polish.
  • Meet high accessibility standards.
  • Serve as a mentor for early career UX engineers and peers.
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$142.0K - $211.0K/yr (Outscal est.)
$176.5K/yr avg.
Worldwide

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A problem isn't truly solved until it's solved for all. Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe. Bring your insight, imagination and a healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone.

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