Job description
Yext (NYSE: YEXT) is the leading digital presence platform for multi-location brands, with thousands of customers worldwide. With one central platform, brands can seamlessly deliver consistent, accurate, and engaging experiences and meaningfully connect with customers anywhere in the digital world. Our AI and machine learning technology powers the knowledge behind every customer engagement, which is only possible through our team of innovators and enthusiastic collaborators. Join us and experience firsthand why we are consistently recognized as a ‘Best Place to Work’ globally by industry leaders such as Built In, Fortune, and Great Place To Work®!
We’re excited to share that Yext has recently joined forces with Hearsay Systems, forming a unified organization that is stronger than ever. This strategic acquisition enhances our ability to deliver world-class solutions by combining industry-leading digital presence management with compliant engagement solutions across social media, text, and voice. As we begin this exciting new chapter together, we’re looking for passionate, driven individuals to help us integrate and continue to innovate in our shared mission.
This role will be part of the Hearsay team, now an integral part of Yext.
Hearsay is looking for a passionate and experienced Senior Software Engineer to lead the development and execution of our Design System on the Web Platform Team. This is a high-impact, highly visible role focused on rebuilding and evolving our design system to meet the growing needs of our product and engineering teams. We are looking for someone to work closely with dedicated designers and peer engineers to build components and patterns that are accessible, performant, and visually cohesive. This is a distributed team, so being comfortable collaborating in a remote environment is important.
What You’ll Do
- Drive the end-to-end engineering efforts of the Design System.
- Collaborate closely with design to align on UI patterns, accessibility standards, and component behavior.
- Lead the rewriting of foundational components to match the design kit.
- Define best practices when developing in or with the Design System.
- Standardize and modernize the build and release pipeline.
- Write and maintain clear, accessible documentation and changelogs to improve adoption and easy migration.
- Participate in roadmap planning to prioritize work.
- Help write, refine, and manage tickets for upcoming features and improvements.
- Triage incoming bugs and feature requests, determine priority and scope, and communicate timelines.
- Share your opinions on architectural and implementation choices.
- Work closely with other engineers to mentor, review code, and share knowledge around frontend best practices and design system usage.
What You Have
- 4+ years experience building front-end systems using modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g., React, Vue, Svelte).
- Deep expertise in component architecture and bundling strategies (Webpack, Rollup, Parcel).
- Willingness to take on large-scale frontend infrastructure initiatives with the help of your peers.
- Strong communicator and cross-functional collaborator.
- Proactive, self-directed, and comfortable working in ambiguity.
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Yext is committed to building an inclusive and diverse culture where every person is seen, heard, and valued. We believe in equal employment opportunity and welcome employees and applicants of all races, colors, ethnicities, religions, creeds, national origins, ancestries, genetics, sexes, pregnancy or childbirth, sexual orientations, genders (including gender identity or nonbinary or nonconformity and/or status as a trans individual), ages, physical or mental disabilities, citizenships, marital, parental and/or familial status, past, current or prospective service in the uniformed services, or any characteristic protected under applicable law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. It is Yext’s policy to provide reasonable accommodations to people with disabilities as required by law. If you have a disability that requires an accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, or participating in the employee selection process, please complete this form.
