Senior Design Engineer - Design System & Platform UI
About The Position
The Senior Design Engineer will work on Click UI, ClickHouse’s open-source design system and shared UI foundation for ClickHouse Cloud and other projects. The Design System team operates Click UI as a service and as the entry point for ClickHouse UI work, building accessible, performant, well-documented, token-driven React components that address complex product requirements. The role focuses on the design system’s components, APIs, infrastructure, adoption, and AI-assisted development. The engineer will collaborate with product teams and contribute to a distributed company culture.
Requirements
- At least 6 years of frontend engineering experience.
- Experience building or maintaining a production design system used by multiple teams, including managing migrations and breaking changes.
- Deep knowledge of React, TypeScript, semantic HTML, and CSS architecture at scale, including SASS, CSS Modules, CSS variables, or CSS-in-JS.
- Experience designing component APIs, including atomic design, composition, controlled and uncontrolled components, and polymorphic patterns.
- Experience with headless primitives such as React Aria, Ark UI, or Radix.
- Working knowledge of WCAG 2.x and WAI-ARIA.
- Ability to implement and test keyboard navigation, focus management, and screen-reader behavior.
- Experience with design-token architecture and tools such as Style Dictionary, Terrazzo, DTCG, or equivalent, and Figma variables sync.
- Ability to write clear documentation, review library consistency, and mentor through code review.
- Fluency in Figma and experience using AI coding tools such as Claude Code or Cursor.
Nice To Haves
- Background on design system or UI/UX platform teams at developer tools, B2B SaaS, or cloud platform companies.
- Background in frontend platform roles involving a shared UI library and multiple teams of consumers.
Responsibilities
- Research, build, and maintain accessible React components and their APIs using headless accessibility primitives, incorporating keyboard interaction, focus management, and theming from the outset.
- Enhance the component library with consistent, intuitive APIs and improved developer experience.
- Enable complex migrations using codemods and semantic versioning.
- Maintain shared design system infrastructure, including Storybook, unit tests, interaction and end-to-end tests, visual regression tests, accessibility gates, and the release process.
- Drive adoption through documentation, usage guidelines, migration guides, issue intake and triage, including open-source issues, and code review with product teams.
- Build AI-assisted workflows such as Figma-to-code and component scaffolding, with guardrails for token use, design patterns, and accessibility.
- Write clear documentation, review library-wide consistency, and mentor through code review.
Benefits
- Employer contributions toward healthcare.
- Stock options for every new team member.
- Flexible time off in the US and generous time-off entitlement in other countries.
- USD $500 home-office setup contribution for remote employees.
- Opportunities to connect with colleagues at company-wide offsites.
- Flexible, remote-friendly work environment.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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