Senior Design Systems Engineer

Zoom • San Jose, CA

19h • Hybrid

About The Position

We’re looking for a Senior Design Systems Engineer to own and evolve our design system. Build and evolve a unified design system that powers every product we ship. You'll craft reusable components and define the standards that connect design and engineering at scale. The result: faster teams, consistent experiences, and a foundation ready for the AI-driven future of product development.

Requirements

• Hold BS or equivalent experience with 6+ years of experience in frontend engineering with significant experience building and scaling design systems or component libraries.
• Deep expertise in modern frontend frameworks (e.g., React, Flutter, or similar) and solid understanding of component architecture.
• Have deep experience with design tokens, theming, and scalable styling systems (CSS-in-JS, Tailwind, or equivalent approaches).
• Proven ability to build systems that scale across multiple teams, products, or platforms.
• Have deep understanding of accessibility (WCAG), performance, and responsive design principles.
• Experience working closely with designers and using tools like Figma to bridge design and code.
• Have excellent communication skills — able to align cross-functional partners and advocate for system-level decisions.
• A systems mindset — you think in terms of reuse, abstraction, and long-term scalability rather than one-off solutions.
• Hold experience leading or owning a design system at scale across an organization.
• Familiarity with tooling such as Storybook, design-to-code pipelines, and automated documentation systems.
• Experience integrating design systems into monorepos or multi platform environments.
• Explore AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude, Codex) and interest in how they reshape UI development workflows.
• Experience improving developer experience (DX) through tooling, automation, and workflow optimization.

Responsibilities

• Owning the architecture and implementation of the design system building scalable, performant component libraries that serve as the foundation for all product development.
• Establish and maintain a true single source of truth across design and code, ensuring tight alignment between Figma and production through tokens, components, and documentation.
• Defining and evolve design tokens, theming systems, and styling infrastructure to support multiple platforms and use cases.
• Build and maintain high-quality, reusable UI components with a focus on accessibility, performance, and flexibility.
• Partnering deeply with design to translate intent into production-ready systems — ensuring fidelity without sacrificing scalability.
• Drive adoption across teams by creating clear standards, documentation, and contribution models that enable teams to move faster with confidence.
• Establishing governance models for the design system — balancing consistency with the flexibility teams need to innovate.
• Collaborate with engineering leadership to integrate the design system into the broader frontend architecture and development workflows.
• Improving developer and designer experience through tooling, automation, and improved workflows(Storybook, CI/CD, linting, etc.).
• Mentor engineers and designers on system thinking, component design, and best practices.
• Evaluating and integrate emerging technologies (including AI-assisted development workflows) to improve how we build, test, and scale UI systems.

Benefits

• award-winning workplace culture
• commitment to delivering happiness
• benefits program offers a variety of perks, benefits, and options to help employees maintain their physical, mental, emotional, and financial health; support work-life balance; and contribute to their community in meaningful ways.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree