28 Jul
Senior Software Engineer, Accessibility
New York, Brooklyn , 11201 Brooklyn USA

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Job Description

Do you have a passion for design, product engineering, and accessibility? If so, this might be the role for you!

The Accessibility team empowers product teams to launch features and experiments that are accessible-by-design. We are responsible for providing guidance and solving issues regarding how usable our platform (Native and Web) is for users with disabilities. We ensure our user experiences are accessible for buyers and sellers leveraging assistive technologies. We also work side by side with the Design Systems team to ensure that our reusable components are accessible.

Our team is open to both remote candidates and candidates located in Etsy’s Brooklyn HQ.

About the role

  • You’ll collaborate with other Product Engineering teams on making new user experiences accessible

  • You’ll help triage and fix accessibility bugs

  • You’ll push code in Git and GitHub

  • You will engage with a wide range of teams to guide their accessibility fixes

  • You’ll answer questions in Slack and Email regarding new and existing accessibility challenges

  • You’ll collaborate with our Design Systems teams to implement accessibility as a requirement

  • You’ll write, maintain, and review code primarily in JavaScript, used in applications built in PHP

  • You’ll build new experiences that are perhaps invisible to many users but make the world of difference to users using assistive technologies (eg: alt text)

  • You’ll provide tooling and documentation for Product Engineering teams on how future features may be developed with accessibility in mind from the start

Qualifications

About you

  • You’re passionate about creating and advocating for accessible experiences

  • You’re an engineer with experience writing accessible frontend code with a deep knowledge of JavaScript

  • You have experience using assistive technologies, such as screen readers.

  • You are comfortable working with legacy code while working towards improving it

  • You are comfortable collaborating on product experiences with other product teams across the company

  • You’re interested in observing existing development patterns, identifying their strengths and weaknesses, and crafting flexible and maintainable solutions to augment those patterns

  • You have an appreciation for systems-thinking when it comes to creating reusable code and consistent experiences for our internal teams

  • You believe that building simple, usable tools that work well together can empower engineers and designers to create better products.

  • You are mindful of the future and strive to create reliable, documented code that other people–or you, six months into the future–will find easy to comprehend and modify.

  • You might have experience collaborating with design systems teams

Additional Information

What's NextIf you're interested in joining the team at Etsy, please send a cover letter and resume telling us why you'd be right for the position. As you've hopefully seen already, Etsy is a place that values individuality and variety. We don't want you to be like everyone else we want you to be like you! So write to us and tell us what you're all about.

Our PromiseAt Etsy, we believe that a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace makes us a more relevant, more competitive, and more resilient company. We encourage people from all backgrounds, ages, abilities, and experiences to apply. Etsy is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or family status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, pregnancy or caregiver status, veteran status, or any other legally protected status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations to participate in the job application and interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. While Etsy supports visa sponsorship, sponsorship opportunities may be limited to certain roles and skillsets.

For U.S. roles only:Many Etsy roles are open to remote candidates, and you'll be able to identify which ones within the location header of each job description. We are open to remote hires from all U.S. states except Hawaii and Alaska. For candidates who will work remotely from Colorado, visit this link for information related to Colorado's Equal Pay for Equal Work Act.

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