User Interface Engineer

Seeking a contract UI engineer to establish the front-end UI framework for the next iteration of CommunityOS, a highly customizable public resource directory. You will be responsible for implementing the visual look and feel and interactions in our system.

Responsibilities

• Own the design handoff process, working directly with the UX designer to translate design specs into production-ready components

• Establish a design system within Bootstrap 5 and Sass

• Implement components using Bootstrap 5, React, and TypeScript, paying close attention to visual hierarchy and spacing to maintain a good user experience

• Ensure components meet WCAG AA accessibility standards

• Work with customizability and extensibility in mind - layout components may shift position or contain vastly different data for different customers

• Define the component library structure, naming conventions, and prop APIs so the dev team can build features on top of your work

• Proven experience building component libraries with Bootstrap 5 or a similar framework

• Strong command of Bootstrap utilities for colors, layout, spacing, and grid, and extending them only when necessary

• Proficiency with SCSS theming and customization

Would be nice to have:

• Experience with Storybook or Ladle for component documentation

• Familiarity with interaction and visual testing using Storybook or Ladle

Insight Global is partnering with a mission-driven SaaS company that builds technology to help communities connect people, resources, and services-during both everyday operations ("blue skies") and crises or disasters ("grey skies"). The company develops and deploys CommunityOS®, a specialized Platform-as-a-Service designed specifically for community service management and disaster relief. The platform enables organizations to connect assets to needs and build strong operational links between nonprofits, government agencies, staff, volunteers, and clients. Their customers are change agents supporting millions of people nationwide, with thousands of staff and volunteers operating in every U.S. state. Use cases span community services, information and referral (including 2-1-1), healthcare and human services, workforce development, disaster response, long-term recovery, and community resilience. Creator of one of the first comprehensively configurable platforms, allowing customers to adapt nearly every aspect of the system-roles, permissions, forms, fields, pages, menus, and workflows-without custom development