React Engineer — X (future role)

You will strengthen the MUI X product, build ambitious and complex new features, work on strategic problems, and help grow adoption. Details of the role Location: Remote (preference for UTC-6 to UTC+5). Type of work: Full-time (contractor or employee depending on circumstances). Level: IC4 or above. We're a remote company, we prefer asynchronous communication over meetings. The company MUI's story began in 2014 with Material UI, the most successful React implementation of Google's Material Design. Today, Material UI stands as one of the most popular open-source libraries on GitHub and has paved the way for the fully-fledged startup known as MUI (founded in 2019), which now boasts an ever-expanding ecosystem of React UI products. We're a company of 31+ people as of late 2023, and we're growing. The products MUI is best known for our flagship product, Material UI—but this is just one of three core component libraries we maintain. Base UI is our headless component library, and Joy UI is a sister library to Material UI that implements our own in-house Joy Design system. We also host Design Kits and pre-built Templates. Beyond the core libraries, MUI X offers advanced components like the Data Grid, Date and Time Pickers, and Charts, for more complex user interactions and data visualization needs. We're also making ambitious moves to incorporate our full suite of components into Toolpad, a low-code admin builder tool for assembling full-stack apps faster than ever. The culture MUI is a fully remote company with a team that spans the globe. The majority of our work is asynchronous, and we rely on written communication to collaborate. We're radically transparent: nearly all of our work happens in public. Each contributor has the freedom to decide how and when they work, and that work is primarily self-directed: it's your responsibility to define and complete your own tasks in a timely manner. For additional details about the culture, you can check our careers and about pages and also our public Handbook. Why we're hiring We also need help to continue to improve the health of the open-source product: make the advanced components easier to use, make it support more use cases, improve performance, make it more accessible, increase the contributions by engaging and collaborating with the community, guide developers to answers, and just generally be a positive presence in the open-source community. Overall, both our open-source community and our premium products are growing fast (x2 YoY). We need talented people to keep that going! Why this is interesting The advanced components portfolio is still small, with a million interesting and challenging problems to solve. Our products empower React developers to build awesome applications faster – we see millions of developers on MUI's docs every year, one million a month. The role What you'll do on a day-to-day basis Depending on the day, you'll: Help guide architectural decisions. The future of MUI is discussed and planned in our public RFCs and issues. You'll be helping drive these conversations and guiding MUI toward the best possible solutions. Contribute to deep, meaningful refactors and feature releases. MUI is a complex codebase. Components we've shipped recently, such as the data grid and date pickers have required months of dedicated, careful work. Reduce friction. A large amount of the work on MUI is reducing friction and making it easier to use. This might involve careful API design, identifying and fixing top bugs, creating easier-to-understand error messages, and writing documentation and blog posts about features you ship. Collaborate with the community. Many small, as well as meaningful fixes and features, have been contributed by the community. Your role is to draw the best out of the community — to inspire those across the world to create and contribute through your reviews of their issues and pull requests. Experiment and play. Great, unexpected features and heisenbug fixes have come from a number of sources — relentlessly methodical processes of elimination, free-flowing team collaboration, inspiration by adjacent libraries and projects, and difficult-to-explain individual strokes of brilliance. Whatever your preferred style is for creating new things that others might not have thought of, you'll find a welcome home on the team. Take ownership of features from idea/mockup to live deployment. You'll shape and guide the direction of crucial new features, including new components. Ship. Early and often. You'll iterate and ship frequently. You'll have a real impact on the end-user experience and you'll love working on a team that builds stunning UIs and prioritizes delivering real user value as often as possible. You'll be interacting with the users on a regular basis, handling inbound support and feature requests (every developer helps with developer requests).

MUI's story began in 2014 with Material UI, the most successful React implementation of Google's Material Design. Today, Material UI stands as one of the most popular open-source libraries on GitHub and has paved the way for the fully-fledged startup known as MUI (founded in 2019), which now boasts an ever-expanding ecosystem of React UI products. We're a company of 31+ people as of late 2023, and we're growing.