Sr Engineer - UI

Role Overview

Sr. Engineer – UI at American Eagle Outfitters in Pittsburgh, PA. You’ll join a major effort to modernize the company’s enterprise single-page application, migrating from legacy Ember.js to a modern, high-performance Next.js ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Develop clean, modular, and reusable UI code for AE.com’s enterprise single-page web application.
• Write unit tests and take ownership of code quality.
• Build and run A/B experiments to validate feature improvements.
• Enhance and innovate core site functionality.
• Modernize legacy Ember components as part of the Next.js transformation.
• Experiment with AI tooling across the SDLC (e.g., Google Gemini, Qodo, Applitools, Atlassian Rovo) to improve efficiency.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, engineering, and other departments; communicate risks and mitigations.
• Create, document, and communicate technical designs aligned with architectural recommendations.
• Assist/lead issue resolution with production support.
• Identify UI technical improvements, plan/define work, and help mentor engineers.

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant experience; Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science/Technology or related field.
• 3+ years working in Agile development.
• Extensive UI experience using an MVC architectural pattern.
• 2+ years with a single-page application framework such as Next.js / React.js / Vue.js / Angular.js.
• Extensive experience consuming RESTful APIs.
• Experience architecting CSS for large-scale responsive applications.

Nice to Have

• Strong Next.js experience and understanding of its ecosystem.
• Experience building/scaling design systems with Storybook.
• Hands-on with Playwright (or similar automation frameworks).
• Experience with Optimizely (or other enterprise experimentation platforms).
• Familiarity with Handlebars and legacy web architectures.
• Experience with Jira / Bitbucket.
• High transactional e-commerce experience.
• Native app development experience (iOS/Android).