Principal Engineer

JOB SUMMARY  

You’ll drive the front-end component and service architecture that represents the last mile of our next-generation UI platform. You’ll not only work closely with your team to do that, but you’ll also collaborate with other teams across the organization and engineering teams at Marriott to advocate for its success and iterate on the finished product.

This is an opportunity to be part of the team that builds design systems and atomic design components that power the Marriott UX for millions of people every day. As a Principal Software Engineer within our Web Platform teams, you will:

• Develop and maintain design systems: Partner with designers to create and maintain a cohesive design system that ensures consistency and scalability across all UI components on web and mobile components.
• Implement atomic design principles: Break down UI elements into their smallest parts to create reusable and efficient components.
• Automate development processes: Enhance developer experience and productivity through automation, ensuring high-quality and maintainable code. 
• Collaborate on cutting-edge solutions: Work with the latest technologies including Typescript, JavaScript, CSS, Next.JS, Figma, Generative AI and Adobe Experience Manager.
• Drive continuous improvement: Be a leader and contribute ideas for improving team efficiency, job satisfaction, and code quality through innovative solutions and automation.
• Design and Develop Full Stack architecture: Work with Platform and Content engineering teams to develop scalable backend solutions for the platform and content management piece. 

 

ABOUT YOU

You are a technical leader with a passion for design systems and atomic design. You have a talent for creating usable, scalable, well-tested software. You thrive in a highly collaborative, agile, and respectful environment. You love learning new technologies, languages, and tools, and you have a passion for building frameworks. You have implemented pixel perfect designs and work well with front-end design principles.

 

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 8+ years of professional software development experience building highly scalable frontends
• High proficiency with Typescript, React.js, Next.js 
• Experience with backend server technologies such as Node, Python, Java or .Net.  and their associated frameworks.
• Experience using GraphQL and REST
• Github actions or other devops automation

OTHER QUALIFICATIONS

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, especially when it comes to conveying technical concepts to audiences at all levels. 
• Ability to mentor and learn from other team members through pairing, code reviews, and documentation. 
• Experience with major architectural bodies of work within a front-end application and building UI component libraries. 
• Experience with monitoring and performance analysis and code quality metrics coupled with a drive for code quality and encouraging peers to elevate their craft. 
• An unbridled curiosity and interest in problem solving and iterative development. 
• Constant drive to complete projects and to overcome roadblocks with positivity and creativity. 
• Hands-on experience with crafting robust unit tests and working with continuous integration and deployment pipelines. 
• You aren’t afraid to course correct anti-patterns you’ve noticed within the team.

 

 

The salary range for this position is $140,200 to $191,700 annually. In addition to the annual salary, the position will be eligible to receive an annual bonus and restricted stock units/stock grants.

Washington Applicants Only: Employees will accrue 0.04616 PTO balance for every hour worked and eligible to receive minimum of 7 holidays annually.  

All locations offer coverage for medical, dental, vision, health care flexible spending account, dependent care flexible spending account, life insurance, disability insurance, accident insurance, adoption expense reimbursements, paid parental leave, educational assistance, 401(k) plan, stock purchase plan, discounts at Marriott properties, commuter benefits, employee assistance plan, and childcare discounts.  Benefits are subject to terms and conditions, which may include rules regarding eligibility, enrollment, waiting period, contribution, benefit limits, election changes, benefit exclusions, and others.

Marriott HQ is committed to a hybrid work environment that enables associates to Be connected.  Headquarters-based positions are considered hybrid, for candidates within a commuting distance to Bethesda, MD;  candidates o