Equal Experts

Equal Experts is an IT Services and IT Consulting company with 1,001-5,000 employees. Equal Experts currently has three open positions. * **UX Consultant - Creative:** This remote contract role requires a Senior UX Consultant to design meaningful, useful experiences for users. Responsibilities include collaborating with customers, turning needs into designs, creating prototypes, collaborating with developers, making trade-offs, and championing the user. The ideal candidate will have senior-level UX experience, a creative and practical approach, comfort speaking with customers, strong design judgment, and a bias towards action. Working hours will be in Eastern Standard Time. * **Senior Backend Engineer:** This is a remote, permanent position for a Senior Backend Engineer. Responsibilities include determining system requirements, delivering software using agile practices, automating infrastructure, supporting systems, advocating agile practices, mentoring, and improving delivery capabilities. Required skills include extensive experience in developing, maintaining, and operating enterprise-scale distributed systems and expert-level knowledge of programming languages. Strong communication and interpersonal skills are also required. * **UX Consultant - Accessibility & Inclusion:** Equal Experts is seeking a senior-level UX Consultant specializing in Accessibility & Inclusion for a remote contract role. This role involves working with users and standards to improve real user experiences. Responsibilities include reviewing VPATs, interpreting accessibility assessments, translating compliance findings, defining remediation approaches, acting as a contact for accessibility barriers, designing training, creating guidance, and supporting accessibility processes. The ideal candidate should have strong knowledge of WCAG and digital accessibility standards, experience assessing accessibility, experience interpreting VPATs, and excellent communication skills. Working hours will be in Eastern Standard Time. Based on the job postings, the technology stack for these roles includes: * **UX Consultant - Creative:** UX Design, User Experience, Prototyping, Wireframing, Customer Collaboration, Design Judgement, Iterative Testing, Creative Problem Solving, Stakeholder Communication, Product Development, User-Centered Design, Design Thinking, Agile Methodologies, Visual Communication, Usability Testing, and Interaction Design. * **Senior Backend Engineer:** Agile Practices, TDD, Pair Programming, CI/CD, Test Driven Development, Microservice Architectures, RESTful Services, Cloud Environments, AWS, GCP, Azure, Communication Skills, Interpersonal Skills, Mentoring, Collaboration, Software Delivery, and Automation. * **UX Consultant - Accessibility & Inclusion:** Accessibility, Inclusion, UX Design, WCAG, VPAT, Digital Accessibility, Problem-Solving, Communication, Training, Collaboration, User Experience, Judgement, Autonomy, Regulatory Compliance, AI Assessments, Public Sector, and Higher Education. All of the currently advertised positions are remote. Working hours for the UX Consultant roles are in Eastern Standard Time. The Senior Backend Engineer role is a permanent position, while the UX Consultant roles are contract positions. Here are some frequently asked questions about the available positions at Equal Experts: 1. **What type of roles are currently available?** There are openings for Senior Backend Engineers and Senior UX Consultants (Creative and Accessibility & Inclusion). 2. **Are the UX Consultant positions full-time?** No, both UX Consultant positions are contract roles. 3. **What is the remote policy for these positions?** All current positions are remote. 4. **What type of experience is required for the Senior Backend Engineer position?** Extensive, diversified experience developing, maintaining, and operating enterprise-scale distributed systems is required. 5. **Where can I find more information about these positions?** The job descriptions are included in this article. 6. **What are the required skills for the UX Consultant – Accessibility & Inclusion role?** Strong working knowledge of WCAG and digital accessibility standards, hands-on experience assessing accessibility, experience interpreting VPATs, pragmatic problem-solving, and excellent communication skills. 7. **What are the working hours for the UX Consultant roles?** Working hours for the UX Consultant roles are in Eastern Standard Time.