Introduction
About Carbon Design System
The Carbon Design System is IBM’s open-source design system for products and experiences. With the IBM Design Language primitives at its core, Carbon consists of working code, design tools and resources, and guidelines—all serving, and served by, a vibrant community of contributors.
A design system is a collection of pre-built, reusable assets—components, patterns, guidance, and code—allowing users to build consistent digital experiences faster. Using the pre-built and universal assets of Carbon minimizes the time teams spend designing and building. Instead of building and re-building basic elements, they can spend that time customizing their products to address specific client use cases.
The design system is named Carbon Design System because in nature the element carbon builds complex structures from simpler compounds. This motif mimics how our styles and components can combine to make beautifully complex, natural, and intuitive designs.
Your Role And Responsibilities
The Carbon Design System team is looking for Front-End Web Developers to join the team responsible for delivering Carbon’s core system to IBM. In this role, you will develop in the heart of the Carbon ecosystem, leveraging the latest front-end development methodologies, tools, and techniques. You will be instrumental in bringing industry-defining software products, cloud services, and web applications to users worldwide and making a global impact by delivering innovative user experiences.
Required Technical And Professional Expertise
4+ years of experience in web front-end development
2+ years of experience in developing high performing, large, accessible and responsive websites
Experience building large application architecture and frameworks
Expert in HTML, CSS and JavaScript
CSS preprocessors (Sass)
Web Components / Typescript
ReactJS JavaScript development
Leveraging API
Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues
Front-end development best practices
Experience in mobile-first, content driven responsive design and development
Experience working with designers
Building accessible and localized user interfaces
Experience working with design tools
Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as GitHub
Knowledge of DevOps and Agile development principles
Troubleshooting, testing and performance optimization skills
Experience with Open Source communities/projects
Experience using Agile Scrum methodology
Fluent in English and solid communication skills
Preferred Technical And Professional Experience
Experience with design systems and ideally the Carbon design system
Experience with monorepos and publishing via lerna/yarn workspaces
Continuous delivery toolchain (Jenkins, Github Actions)
Package managers (NPM, Yarn, etc…)
Front-end application bundlers (webpack, rollup, vite, etc)
Front-end unit testing (Jest, RTL, etc)
Front-end e2e testing (Playwright, Cypress, etc)
Experience in JavaScript frameworks such as Angular, VueJS, and Node.js
Knowledge of emerging Web standards (Web Components, HTTP/2, etc…)
Visual or user experience design