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We are looking for a talented software engineer with expertise in designing and developing user-interfaces to be part of our global software development team at Whirlpool. You will be part of a diverse team that is responsible for developing software for all of Whirlpool’s products.

This position can be located onsite in Chicago, IL or Southwest Michigan with the option to work completely remote.

This role in summary

As an Individual Contributor, the Lead User-Interface Engineer is responsible for leading the design and development of our User-Interface software for the mass-market, connected products. The role requires a thorough understanding of UI architecture and design, graphics and software programming. They should also be comfortable working in an embedded software development environment and optimizing the user interface to the constraints of an embedded system running on microcontrollers in a resource constrained environment.

Your responsibilities will include

Contribute to the overall architecture and implementation of software for Whirlpool products with a focus on User-Interface (UI) software and its integration with the rest of the software system
Work across teams such as Global Consumer Design and external UI design partners to provide software architecture solutions
Provide technical leadership and direction for team members on UI design including development of a technical solution that scales across many different products and variations
Be knowledgeable about the best practices in software development, especially as they relate to software for consumer IoT products and bring this knowledge in driving a culture of continuous improvement in our software development methodologies
Assist other engineers through instruction and mentoring including engineers distributed globally
Participate in functional, technical, and code reviews

Minimum requirements

Bachelor’s Degree
5+ years of software development experience in User Interface or Front-End Development
2+ years programming and debugging experience in JavaScript

Preferred skills and experiences

Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or Computer Science
Experience/Understanding of different UI architectures and patterns (MVC, MVP, MVVM), the differences between them and why you would choose one over the other.
Experience/Understanding of breaking down UI designs into reusable components using atomic design principles.
Experience/Understanding in creating UIs using graphics generated from other teams. Familiar with graphic content from creation tools like Sketch, Photoshop, Figma, Adobe After Effects, etc.
Experience/Understanding on how to optimize graphical images & animations with an understanding of the tradeoffs between performance/quality and processing resources.
Understanding of computer science fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, object-oriented design, operating systems, networking protocols, wireless standards and protocols, security protocols, RESTful architecture, API development, etc.
General knowledge in computer programming and capable of writing an original program to solve a generic problem in the programming language of their choice. Javascript is preferred.
Experience/Understanding of the ECMAScript standard. Knowledge in ES6 is preferred.
Experience/Understanding of writing software for resource constrained embedded devices including memory and performance management.
Experience/Understanding of compiling, programming and debugging an embedded device.
Experience with professional software engineering practices over all aspects of the software development life cycle (SDLC) including writing requirements specifications, developing design guidelines and coding standards, performing code reviews, source code control, build systems, testing, release engineering and field support.
Familiarity with continuous integration, test and deployment in an agile environment
A collaborative attitude and strong desire to succeed as part of the team
Self-motivated and a strong passion for learning

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