RoBenDevs’ Post

Hello everyone! I'm Favour, a front-end developer/UX designer passionate about creating user-centered experiences. This is my first post and I'm excited to finally join the LinkedIn community and share my thoughts and learnings with all of you! To start, I wanted to share a recent lightbulb moment: I've been living a double life as a frontend dev and UX designer, but a few days ago, I discovered that there's a name for this crossover role - UI/UX Engineer! I've been scrolling through job sites for ages, seeing "UX Engineer" pop up and thinking, "Hmm, probably just a fancy way to make UI/UX sound more complicated than it already is." I'd dismiss it, thinking it wasn't my cup of tea. Then one day, I actually read through a job description on Glassdoor and realized, wait a minute, these requirements match my skills! Curiosity piqued, I dug deeper and discovered that UX Engineering is actually a real thing! It's like being a UI/UX designer but with coding superpowers. At least now I finally have something to write on my resume in the job title section. I'm excited to learn more and connect with fellow software developers and UX Engineers out there! P.S.: Forgive my ignorance, everyone, I know it's a rookie mistake, but I'm owning up to it and embracing my newfound knowledge! #UXEngineer #UIUX #frontend #hybridrole #newtoLinkedIn #learning

🚀 Element 84 is #hiring 📍 Job Title: UI/UX Front End Engineer (remote) 🎓 Experience: 3-5 year 🔗 Apply Now: https://lnkd.in/gGuqQ3nQ #job #remote #workfromhome #programming #development #coding #tech #engineer #career #HTML #CSS #Javascript #Git #Sketch #Figma

Hello nerds, do you remember when Designers were also often Developers? Remember that fun phase where we had Front-end Designers and they could code and appreciated HTML and CSS and the industry appreciated them back? Well I do [insert "sure grandma" meme]. Anyways, my team (we call ourselves the Pink Gremlins) at honeycomb.io is hiring a Product Designer and while I'm not the hiring manager, I do think the role would benefit from a familiarity with front-end development. If that's your skillset or fits someone you know, send them my way! The role isn't public yet, but I can refer people immediately! Message me here if you have questions, happy to chat a bit about the role/team/project/number of slack emoji we have. (the attached image is a rejected team name, I think it still has potential)

In our industry, there’s a natural split in what we learn on the job: backend engineers usually dive deep into system architecture, while frontend and mobile developers often become experts in UI/UX. But what happens when we step out of our comfort zones? 💡 By picking up skills from “the other side,” we become more versatile and better equipped to build well-rounded solutions. Imagine a backend engineer who gets design thinking or a frontend developer who understands backend architecture—that’s a powerful combination! What cross-discipline skill has surprised you or changed how you approach your work? Let’s share some stories!👇 #CareerGrowth #CrossFunctional #TechSkills #ProductDevelopment

👩🚀 More hiring alert. Things are happening fast. 😎 Senior Frontend UI Engineer - https://lnkd.in/gZj6-Kyg 👾 Senior Software Developer - https://lnkd.in/dyzW662A 🤠 Sales & Business Developer - https://lnkd.in/dbd5i-tB A revolutionary journey to unify customer communications using real- time data. We are transforming how company data is consumed today - do you or your friend share the same ambition?

As a frontend Engineer, Identifying potential employers can be challenging. Here is my framework that may help you to guide your evaluation process. Here are key parameters to consider: Product Impact: How crucial is the frontend to their success? Is it user-facing (think Figma, Google Docs, or OTT platforms), or internal-facing (dashboards)? Tech Stack: Are they on the cutting edge, or is there a clear migration plan? Team Structure: Do frontend and backend engineers work together, or are they siloed? Interview Process: Is there a dedicated frontend interview process, or is it backend-heavy? Compensation: Do frontend engineers get compensated competitively (compared to backend/full-stack roles)? Open Source: Does the company contribute to open-source projects? (Bonus points if they have projects relevant to your interests!) Design: Are their products visually appealing? Is there a strong brand identity and a cohesive UI/UX? Do they use a design system? #frontendengineering #careeradvice #techindustryinsights #techcareers #evaluate

🚀 Figma is #hiring 📍 Job Title: Software Engineer (remote) 🎓 Experience: 5-8 year 🔗 Apply Now: https://lnkd.in/gnBJhwfb #job #remote #workfromhome #programming #development #coding #tech #engineer #career #TypeScript #Javascript #React.js #C++ #Python #Java

Posted this 1st job for Aircircle & I learnt more about hiring in 24 hours than I did in a decade of professional life. Here's a no BS rundown: 1. It is hard to come up with a JD for a startup generalist. We needed an FE with strong design sense and posted the "Design Engineer" role trending on X. Turns out that is a term heavily used in automobile and aerospace engineering and many folks don't read the JD (I don't blame them. I have been there after getting exhausted from applying to 400+ jobs that I would get no replies for). This led to some iterations of our job post. Thank you LinkedIn Edit feature. 2. We had 42 applications within 2 hours of posting the job as a LinkedIn "Easy Apply" job. Only 8 of them were relevant. I have heard this advice from recruiters before but seeing it first hand that if a job post says 100 applicants, don't be scared to apply because most of them are irrelevant (LinkedIn automatically filters out half of them). 3. Resumes are the worst thing that can happen to a candidate, and the most soulless part of your career search, even if you put a smiling profile picture and festival lights on them. They mostly look the same and I still have no clue how recruiters find "good resumes" from that lot. I rather looked at a candidate's LinkedIn about section, their posts, featured links and linked portfolios to get a sense of the person's work and personality. 4. What a person is doing today matters more than what they did before. I chatted with someone I knew to be superstar engineer years ago and now they are very comfortable in their high paying job and very disconnected from the craziness of tech today. If I judged this person from their past work (or even current role), they would be a top candidate. 5. Not being cocky is important by replying to people who I felt were not relevant to the role with kindness because we want to live the culture we are advertising. Guess what, it does take effort and does get repetitive but candidates who quickly hear back are thankful that you let them know and didn't waste their time. 6. I have interviewed candidates before but the risk and power dynamics were completely different as I was just one of the interviewers. Imposter syndrome is much more real when you are the recruiter + decision maker + payer. I had all sorts of thoughts crossing my mind: What company culture and hiring process am I talking about when we are just a couple of guys figuring it out? Will this person ask for the higher side of the salary band and impact my burn rate? Do they just want this as a normal stable job or are they ready to risk this figuring out stage with us? Am I spewing corporate BS and behaving in a way that I didn't like about some recruiters when I was on the other side? Any founders here with similar learnings? What else did you learn that I haven't listed here (yet)? PS: If you are frontend engineer with a powerful sense of design anywhere in the world, please apply 🙏.

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