As a Senior Design Technologist, you will enhance Flatiron's Design System and create user-friendly applications while collaborating across teams.
Reimagine the infrastructure of cancer care within a community that values integrity, inspires growth, and is uniquely positioned to create a more modern, connected oncology ecosystem.
We're looking for a Senior Design Technologist to help us accomplish our mission to improve and extend lives by learning from the experience of every person with cancer. Are you ready to be the next changemaker in cancer care?
What You'll Do
You'll be joining our Design Systems team and will have the opportunity to help define how Flatiron products and tools should work. You will help level up the way designers and engineers work together and help evolve our Design System as a core part of our software toolkit. Your work will enable teams to create high-quality user-facing applications that focus on usability, consistency, and accessibility. You will work with teams across the organization to help define front-end best practices for scalable and reliable code that touches the lives of millions of cancer patients. In addition, you'll also:
Who You Are
You are a hybrid front-end developer and product designer that enjoys working in both Figma and Code.
Extra credit
Where you'll work
In this remote position, you have the freedom to choose your preferred work location while aligning your working hours with your team's. For further details on our hybrid work approach and remote work type, please visit the how we work website.
Life at Flatiron
At Flatiron Health, we offer a full range of benefits to support you and your loved ones so you can focus your working hours on improving cancer care and accelerating cancer research, and your non-working hours on everything else life has to offer:
In addition to our robust benefit offerings, visit our Life at Flatiron page to learn how we support continuous learning and celebrate inclusion and belonging in the workplace.
Preferred Primary Location: Remote - US general
The annual pay range reflected above for this position is based on the preferred primary location of the role which is listed in the job description. Salary ranges for other locations vary from the range reflected above. Base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. An annual bonus and equity may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position offered.
We're looking for a Senior Design Technologist to help us accomplish our mission to improve and extend lives by learning from the experience of every person with cancer. Are you ready to be the next changemaker in cancer care?
What You'll Do
You'll be joining our Design Systems team and will have the opportunity to help define how Flatiron products and tools should work. You will help level up the way designers and engineers work together and help evolve our Design System as a core part of our software toolkit. Your work will enable teams to create high-quality user-facing applications that focus on usability, consistency, and accessibility. You will work with teams across the organization to help define front-end best practices for scalable and reliable code that touches the lives of millions of cancer patients. In addition, you'll also:
- Shape the holistic vision of user interfaces across Flatiron products, focusing on consistency, scalability, and flexibility.
- Design and test modular, accessible UI components and patterns that reflect the Flatiron brand and solve diverse user needs.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with designers and engineers to develop high-quality front-end code and maintain shared libraries and tools.
- Promote best practices through documentation, process improvements, and ongoing communication around the Design System.
Who You Are
You are a hybrid front-end developer and product designer that enjoys working in both Figma and Code.
- You have a portfolio or examples of past work, bonus if you can include code samples or projects in git.
- You have 3+ years of experience working as a hybrid product designer and front-end developer.
- You are comfortable context-switching between different problems.
- You bring a systems approach to everything you do.
- You have strong expertise in modern coding technology (React, Typescript, HTML/CSS).
- You are comfortable working in Figma and designing UI.
- You're detail oriented and have an eye for consistency.
Extra credit
- You have experience contributing to design systems and component libraries.
- You're familiar with accessibility standards (WCAG).
- You have experience building products in healthcare.
Where you'll work
In this remote position, you have the freedom to choose your preferred work location while aligning your working hours with your team's. For further details on our hybrid work approach and remote work type, please visit the how we work website.
Life at Flatiron
At Flatiron Health, we offer a full range of benefits to support you and your loved ones so you can focus your working hours on improving cancer care and accelerating cancer research, and your non-working hours on everything else life has to offer:
- Work/life autonomy via flexible work hours and flexible paid time off
- Comprehensive compensation package
- 401(k) contribution to help you reach your retirement planning goals
- Financial health resources including 1:1 financial advice
- Mental well-being tools and services
- Parental benefits and policies including family-building care and generous leave
- Path to parenthood programs supporting fertility, adoption and surrogacy
- Travel support for safe healthcare services
In addition to our robust benefit offerings, visit our Life at Flatiron page to learn how we support continuous learning and celebrate inclusion and belonging in the workplace.
Preferred Primary Location: Remote - US general
The annual pay range reflected above for this position is based on the preferred primary location of the role which is listed in the job description. Salary ranges for other locations vary from the range reflected above. Base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. An annual bonus and equity may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position offered.
Top Skills
CSS
Figma
HTML
React
Typescript
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