DFINITY Careers

With more user facing products and user adoption, DFINITY is looking for a creative, experienced, and collaborative UI/UX lead to join our team and accelerate the adoption of the Internet Computer blockchain.

About You:

• You over analyze the usability every website you visit
• You have built web applications - both for desktop and mobile (a link to a portfolio is appreciated). Our main focus is Web apps, but mobile experience is a plus
• You live and breathe design, aesthetics, intuitive UX
• You understand the purpose and the underlying technologies of the user facing apps and strive for making them appealing and simple to use
• You optimize your workflow for iterations rather than “the one end-all design”. There is always room for improvement and a next step to take
• You are fearless. You have jumped in and designed for different platforms or audiences. Crypto/Blockchain experience is a big plus. We are an ambitious startup and our UI/UX is one of the main drivers for the adoption
• You hear and appreciate opinions and tastes of different parties. You can reconcile all inputs, synthesize a good solution, and can explain why this is the right approach.

• You have knowledge and understanding of various design systems, frontend frameworks, and processes for implementing user-facing software
• You know basic front-end: HTML, CSS, JS, but are looking for a place where you can flex your software muscle

Responsibilities:

As a UI/UX lead, you will work towards creating a world-class user experience. You will be shaping up the major user-facing components of the Internet Computer ecosystem in the areas of governance and identity user experience (wallets, authentication systems, DeFi). Your responsibilities include:

• Improve UI/UX of the existing functionality and developing UI/UX for new features for system dapps like Internet Identity and NNS Frontend
• Conduct usability testing and help identify priorities for usability improvements
• Work with the leadership and product teams to shape the product and brand strategy of the system user-facing dapps
• Create storyboards, wireframes and screen flows
• Work very closely with frontend developers (we use Svelte framework) to ship UX features and improvements
• Partner with the Design and Editorial teams to scope and execute an end-to-end digital content strategy and brand identity 

We need writers with exceptional writing ability and solid technical competence to provide an engaging developer experience.

Technical writers make Internet Computer developers more efficient and productive by writing, structuring, and maintaining high-quality technical content. DFINITY cares deeply about developer experience. With great documentation, engineers spend more time building value for users and less time searching for answers.

We know that incomplete and rushed documentation creates friction and slows things down, while efficient knowledge sharing is a force multiplier that increases productivity and job satisfaction.

Our goal is to empower developers and foster a culture of self-service with world-class documentation.

Qualifications

We're looking for someone who: 

• Has 5+ years of experience writing great software documentation alongside engineers
• Is able to write exceptionally well - easy to understand, descriptive, with the necessary level of detail, while keeping the focus on the overall goal of the essay
• Able to communicate complex technical concepts clearly and precisely
• Is proficient with HTML, Markdown, Git, and command-line tools.
• Can write code and understand basic computer science concepts, given that the subject his highly technical
• Has a good background in technical writing best practices
• Has strong empathy for the user and ability to write documentation from the user's point of view
• Is accessible in EST working hours, given the need to collaborate with colleagues overseas.

It's a plus  if you have:

• 2+ years experience working on crypto and blockchain-related projects
• Experience working with Solidity, Rust, and blockchain development in general
• Experience creating documentation tools and publishing pipelines
• Familiarity with Visual Studio Code (or another common IDE like IntelliJ, vim, or Emacs)
• Experience working with modern programming languages JavaScript, Python, TypeSript, Go, Java, C#, or others

You should include these in your application:

• Your resume.
• Technical writing examples (where 80%+ of content is written by you)
• Any additional materials (for example, a writing sample in a particular style, a description of why you want to work in this role, a paragraph describing relevant experience)

Responsibilities

• Write documentation for the Internet Computer platform that includes tutorials, advanced guides, references
• Create guides for entrepreneurs on how to build a successful business on the Internet Computer platform 
• Maintain content quality through curation and content performance analysis
• Define and help raise the quality bar with standards, guidelines, templates, and reporting.- Empower engineers, product managers, and global teams to create and maintain internal documentation and amplify their contributions
• Organize documentation and make it easily discoverable
• Create easy-to-navigate page structures so that developers can quickly skim the page and find what they need
• Push DFINITY and the industry forward by dreaming up and implementing new ways to deliver, author, analyze, and interact with technical content