Senior UX Engineer

Summary

Join Hyperproof's dynamic Engineering team as a Senior UX Engineer (Contractor) based remotely in Peru, Ecuador, Mexico, or Brazil. This long-term contract role offers the chance to contribute to exciting projects, influence design decisions, drive innovation, and ensure user experiences align with business goals. You will be responsible for design system ownership and implementation, high-fidelity prototyping and experimentation, communication and collaboration, usability, accessibility and performance advocacy, iterative development, cross-functional collaboration, tooling and workflow automation, mentorship and knowledge sharing. Hyperproof is reinventing risk and compliance management software, focusing on clarity, usability, and speed. If you're passionate about design systems, UX excellence, and building delightful user experiences, this is the opportunity for you.

Requirements

• 7+ years experience building SPAs with React and TypeScript
• Strong UI, CSS, responsive design, and accessibility skills
• Proven experience with modern testing practices (Jest, Cypress)
• Ability to integrate REST APIs into front-end applications
• Professional English proficiency and strong mentorship capabilities
• Familiarity with cloud deployment (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud)
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Responsibilities

• Design System Ownership & Implementation
• Lead the development and maintenance of robust, secure, and performant design system components
• Ensure visual and functional consistency across components, providing ready-made UI building blocks for dev teams
• Convert Figma design tokens into a production-grade library (React/Storybook)
• High-Fidelity Prototyping & Experimentation
• Build coded prototypes (HTML/CSS/JS) that accurately simulate final products for effective user testing
• Facilitate stakeholder buy-in through realistic, interactive prototypes
• Communication & Collaboration
• Clearly communicate UX outcomes to UX teams, cross-functional partners, and stakeholders
• Simplify complex technical and UX concepts for better cross-team understanding
• Translate design intent into engineering-ready specifications during critiques and sprint planning
• Usability, Accessibility & Performance Advocacy
• Identify usability issues, prioritize improvements, and implement enhancements
• Integrate accessibility standards (WCAG, ARIA roles, keyboard paths) into workflows
• Set performance budgets and integrate automated checks (axe, Lighthouse CI) into CI/CD pipelines
• Iterative Development
• Support iterative release cycles, aligning tasks with product schedules
• Cross-Functional & Cross-Stage Collaboration
• Partner closely with Product Design and Product Management to manage dependencies
• Foster effective collaboration across product groups and development stages
• Tooling, Workflow Automation & UX Instrumentation
• Automate design system tasks, documentation, and integration through tooling and scripts
• Embed accurate event tracking for analytics, A/B tests, and KPI dashboards
• Manage Storybook documentation, allowing exploration without engineering support
• Mentorship & Knowledge Sharing
• Mentor colleagues on best practices for design system implementation and usability
• Actively participate in design reviews, modeling effective feedback methods
• Coach designers on technical feasibility and educate engineers about UX heuristics, shortening the feedback loop from idea to validated code

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with hosted SaaS environments (Kubernetes, Docker)
• Background in enterprise software or workflow-focused UIs
• Interest in AI tools like GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT
• Strong skills in TDD, refactoring, and testable code architecture

Benefits

• Annual compensation reviews + equity
• Unlimited PTO: strongly encouraged to unplug and recharge
• Health: coverage for medical, dental, and vision - employee and dependents
• 401K, which vests immediately, complete with a 4% company match
• 12 weeks of Parental leave and 1 year free diapers and wipes with Honest
• Annual company in-person events and quarterly in-person connects
• $500 home office stipend - at the time of hire. Any additional home office needs are requested as needed
• $100 quarterly paid wellness stipend
• Pet insurance discount
• Slack channel notifications turn off after 5 pm based on your time zone
• Two Hypercharge weeks of rest where we close company-wide (July & Dec)