Staff Frontend Engineer - Design Systems

Skills
AdoptionEngineeringFoundationsLeadershipPersonal BoundariesTechnical DirectionTokens
Role

What the job involves

The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.

Requirements

  • Experience building and maintaining component libraries or platform-like products serving multiple teams
  • Strong TypeScript and modern frontend engineering skills with React experience as a plus
  • Ability to design maintainable systems with clear boundaries versioning and backwards compatibility
  • Solid testing practices across unit integration and end-to-end with a strong quality mindset
  • Knowledge of accessibility and performance best practices for UI systems
  • Experience collaborating with designers and product engineers across stakeholders

Nice to have

  • Pragmatic
  • Clear communicator
  • Collaborative
  • Mentor-minded
  • Systems thinker
  • Quality-focused

Day to day

  • Lead technical direction for Telescope across web and mobile, setting strong architecture and quality standards
  • Improve design system contribution workflows, triage, and request handling to help product teams ship faster
  • Build hands-on in code while coaching engineers, driving adoption, and improving tooling, testing, documentation, and system health

Hiring process

  • Submit application through system
  • Application reviewed by talent team
  • Interview process tailored for accessibility needs if required