Senior Design Developer
Dialogue•Montreal, QC
•Hybrid
About The Position
Dialogue is building a connected care experience where quality, trust, and speed matter. As our first Senior Design Developer, your primary focus is enabling designers and developers across Dialogue to ship faster—with higher quality, accessibility, and consistency—by strengthening the design system, patterns, and contribution workflows. Your north star is adoption: making the design system easy to use, easy to trust, and safe for many people to contribute to—so squads ship faster with less drift.
Requirements
- Senior-level design & engineering experience: 5+ years building design systems & component libraries for digital products teams.
- Frontend development depth: Strong experience shipping production UI and comfort with code quality, testing, and maintainable architecture.
- Design fluency: You can interpret and challenge design decisions, spot UX issues early, and implement nuanced UI details without hand-holding.
- Accessibility experience: Practical ability to build accessible components and interactions (WCAG-informed), not just “run a checklist.”
- Systems mindset: You naturally look for leverage—solving root causes and building foundations instead of repeatedly patching symptoms.
- Collaborative influence: You can align stakeholders, explain tradeoffs, and move work forward across Design, Product, and Development. You’re comfortable influencing without authority and building trust through partnership.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in regulated / high-trust product areas (privacy, reliability, auditability)
- Experience using AI tools to improve speed and quality in your workflow.
Responsibilities
- Enable teams to ship UI faster and more consistently: Build the foundations (components, tokens, patterns, docs, examples) and provide the support (pairing, office hours) that make the design system the default path.
- Drive design system adoption: Partner with squads to migrate to shared components, run enablement (docs, examples, office hours), and make it the default path—not the “nice to have” path.
- Own UI quality as a system: Identify sources of inconsistency (UX drift, edge cases, accessibility gaps), fix them at the right level (component, token, guideline, lint/test, workflow), and prevent regressions.
- Create strong design ↔️ engineering collaboration: Improve handoffs and day-to-day pairing so designers and engineers can iterate faster with fewer misunderstandings.
- Make safe change easy: Build contribution workflows (how work gets proposed, reviewed, merged, released) so improvements can come from many people—not just you.
- Support AI-assisted building responsibly: Explore how AI can accelerate UI iteration while keeping guardrails so changes remain consistent, reviewable, and safe to ship.
Benefits
- Access to the Dialogue app and virtual mental health support for you and your family
- Fully funded insurance
- Health spending account
- Dental coverage
- Fitness reimbursement
- 4 weeks vacation
- 9 wellness days
- 1 volunteer day
- Hybrid work: 3 days/week in our Montreal or Toronto offices, excluding remote roles
- Work abroad up to 4 weeks/year
- Incentive plans
- Referral bonuses
- RRSP matching
- Learning via Coursera
- External training budget
- Mentorship
- Optional parental leave top-up
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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