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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 education
Bachelor's Degree
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

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence—from machine learning to generative AI—to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM’s AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM’s hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments—a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

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Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

 

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ABOUT IBM

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Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business. 

 

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

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