Software Engineer II

As the global home for all developers, GitHub is the complete AI-powered developer platform to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 150+ million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate and experiment across 420+ million repositories. repositories. With all the collaborative features of GitHub, it has never been easier for individuals and teams to write faster, better code.

Locations

In this role you can work from Remote, United States

Overview

GitHub is revolutionizing the way developers collaborate and build software, and we are looking for a Software Engineer to join our Primer or Accessibility Engineering teams. These teams play a vital role in ensuring GitHub UI is consistent and accessible by supporting and improving the implementation and adoption of reusable design patterns. They also ensure that GitHub’s platform meets and exceeds accessibility standards, unblocking high-priority services and proactively addressing accessibility challenges across the product.



In this role, you’ll collaborate closely with designers, engineers, and multidisciplinary teammates to grow and improve our component libraries, address accessibility concerns for complex UI patterns, and scale automated solutions for accessibility compliance. . You’ll also seek feedback from product and platform engineers to ensure a smooth and reliable developer experience, making it easier for consumers to build high-quality UI with our design system and accessibility best practices.

If you enjoy the challenge of building design systems and accessible experiences at scale and aim to deliver an equally empowering end user and developer experience, the Primer and Accessibility Engineering teams at GitHub might be the place for you.




Responsibilities

For this specific role, we're looking for someone who values the following:

Systems thinking: Our team has to apply decisions holistically, making sure to look at new patterns in context with the larger system of the product.

Inclusive design: GitHub is a home for all developers, and our work should reflect that by including and learning from people with diverse perspectives and abilities. Designing and developing for inclusivity and accessibility first opens up our platform for more people.

Creating together: Achieving the best result involves contributions from designers, engineers, and product partners working across both platform and product concerns. Facilitating collaboration across disciplines and teams is key to evolving the design system and addressing accessibility challenges effectively.

Progress and impact: Our team often works on the meta, so it's easy to get caught up in the details. We have to be mindful of this and ensure we’re continuously driving toward decisions given the information available. This means being solutions oriented, seeking opportunities to ship iteratively, and prioritizing progress over correctness when it's the right call.


Qualifications

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree (or higher, e.g., MS, or PhD) or its equivalent in Human-Computer Interaction Design, User Experience Design, Interaction Design, Graphic Design, Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent technical experience.

1+ years experience as a software engineer contributing to design systems or accessibility using one of the following coding languages or technologies: React, Typescript, Jest, Storybook, or ESLint

1+ years experience with WCAG compliance and/or implementing accessibility best practices

1+ years experience working with Git version control, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

Preferred Qualifications

Experience working successfully with designers to implement and fine-tune complex UI

Experience contributing to frameworks used by other engineers, such as internal or open source component libraries, styling systems, or utilities for developer experience.

Familiarity developing in Ruby on Rails and/or the ViewComponent framework, and feel comfortable pushing Rails code.

Passionate about building accessible and inclusive products, with proven results in identifying and remediating WCAG violations.

Experience analyzing or auditing code for accessibility issues, including using automated testing tools (e.g., Axe).

Experience working on developer tools and/or a developer-focused product.




Compensation Range

The base salary range for this job is USD $81,000.00 - USD $214,900.00 /Yr.

These pay ranges are intended to cover roles based across the United States. An individual's base pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant. At GitHub certain roles are eligible for benefits and additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock. These rewards are allocated based on individual impact in role. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role.
GitHub values

Customer-obsessed
Ship to learn
Growth mindset
Own the outcome
Better together
Diverse and inclusive
Manager fundamentals

Model
Coach
Care
Leadership principles

Create clarity
Generate energy
Deliver success

Who We Are

GitHub is the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform with 100 million developers and counting. We’re also home to the biggest open-source community on earth (and 99% of the world’s software has open-source code in its DNA). Many of the apps and programs you use every day are built on GitHub.
Our teams are dreamers, doers, and pioneers, leading the way in AI, driving humanitarian efforts around the globe, and even sending open source to Mars (and beyond!). At GitHub, our goal is to create the space you need to do your best work. We’re remote-first and offer competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are—because we know that people flourish when they can work on their own terms.
Join us, and let’s change the world, together.

EEO Statement

GitHub is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. We don't discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!