Front End Design Systems Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and govern a scalable enterprise Design System.
• Develop reusable UI components, patterns, templates, and front end frameworks.
• Partner closely with UX designers, researchers, accessibility specialists, and product teams.
• Translate Figma designs and design tokens into production ready components.
• Define component architecture, coding standards, and implementation guidelines.
• Establish governance processes for component contribution, review, and adoption.
• Ensure accessibility compliance (WCAG 2.1 AA or higher).
• Create and maintain design system documentation, usage guidelines, and code examples.
• Drive consistency across websites, applications, and digital products.
• Support product teams in adopting and implementing design system standards.
• Measure usage, adoption, and effectiveness of design system assets.

Required Skills:

Design Systems

• Hands on experience building or contributing to enterprise Design Systems.
• Experience with design systems such as:
• Google Material Design
• Microsoft Fluent UI
• Adobe Spectrum
• Salesforce Lightning
• IBM Carbon
• Atlassian Design System
• GOV.UK Design System
• Similar large scale component libraries

Front End Engineering

• Expert knowledge of:
• React.js
• TypeScript
• JavaScript (ES6+)
• HTML5
• CSS3 / SCSS
• Experience creating reusable component libraries and UI frameworks.
• Experience with Storybook or similar component documentation platforms.

UX & Design Collaboration

• Strong understanding of:
• Design tokens
• Component architecture
• Atomic Design principles
• Responsive design
• Interaction design patterns
• Experience collaborating with UX designers using Figma.

Accessibility

• Deep understanding of:
• WCAG 2.1+
• ADA compliance
• Semantic HTML
• Accessible component development

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting healthcare, government, or regulated industries.
• Experience with enterprise scale digital experience platforms.
• Knowledge of micro frontends and modern front end architecture.
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines for component libraries.
• Familiarity with AEM, Next.js, Angular, or Vue.js.
• Experience creating design tokens and integrating them into development workflows.

Experience

• 5+ years of Front End Engineering experience.
• 3+ years focused specifically on Design System development and governance.
• Demonstrated experience building and maintaining component libraries used across multiple applications and teams.