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Apprentice Frontend Engineer at Octanner in Salt Lake City, UT
Entry LevelOn-siteFull-timeSalt Lake City, UT
Job Description
Apprentice Frontend Engineer
Location: USA - Utah-Salt Lake City-Headquarters
O.C. Tanner is the global leader in software and services that improve workplace culture through meaningful employee experiences. Our Culture Cloud is a suite of apps designed to enhance the employee experience with strategic recognition, service awards, wellbeing, leadership, and events that help people thrive at work. Our Culture by Design approach provides expert services to organizations looking to create great workplaces.
Our global team of 1,500 people hail from 58 countries and speak 62 languages. As programmers, researchers, designers, client professionals and craftspeople we create the tech, tools and awards that connect employees to purpose at thousands of companies. Join us as we help people all over the world thrive at work.
In this apprentice role, you'll work with a senior engineering team to design and build a modern React-based component library that standardizes UI/UX across applications -- implementing reusable components, migrating legacy UI, and partnering with design and QA to deliver high-quality user experiences.
Responsibilities
Build and maintain reusable UI components using React and JavaScript
Assist in migrating an existing component library from MUI to ArkUI
Support the transition from Tailwind-based styling to a structured CSS approach
Implement and integrate design tokens to ensure consistency across components
Translate Figma designs into responsive, production-ready components and styles
Collaborate closely with a senior engineer to debug issues and refine implementations
Contribute to task estimation, sprint planning, and daily development activities
Write clean, maintainable code and commit changes using Git
Partner with Software Engineers in Test (SET) to validate functionality and quality
Technologies
JavaScript
React
CSS / Design Systems / Design Tokens
ArkUI (target component framework)
Material UI (legacy system)
Git / GitHub
Figma