Senior Front-End Developer, Design Systems

Bank of New York Mellon•New York, NY

3d•$95,000 - $209,000

About The Position

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Front-End Developer with a passion for building robust and scalable design systems. In this role, you will be a key player in shaping our digital products by working with a modern tech stack to build and maintain the core components and guidelines that our product teams rely on. Your expertise will be crucial in ensuring consistency, quality, and efficiency across all our applications. You will collaborate closely with a talented team of designers and developers to bring our vision to life.

Requirements

8+ years of experience as a Front-End Developer, with a significant focus on design system development.
Expert-level proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript.
Deep expertise in modern front-end frameworks, including Angular and React.
Mastery of CSS, including pre-processors, advanced styling techniques, CSS variables, variable stacking, and robust color systems.
Extensive experience with Web Components and their application in large-scale systems.
Proven track record in scaling design systems, managing complex theming architectures, and ensuring smooth production deployments.
Strong understanding of version management and library dependency management within a component library context.
Experience with packaged version control for design system assets.
A passion for solid documentation and creating working code demonstrations that clearly illustrate component usage.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Demonstrates a sharp eye for visual and interactive detail, a solid grasp of user interaction patterns, and excels at collaborating with designers to seamlessly translate design intent into intuitive, user-focused solutions.

Nice To Haves

Experience in the Financial Services or FinTech industry.
Contributions to open-source design systems or component libraries.
Demonstrates a keen sense of design aesthetics.
Possesses experience collaborating with UX designers.
Holds advanced expertise in interaction design principles.
Experience leveraging AI to empower yours and others work.

Responsibilities

Lead development and evolution of our design system, focusing on reusability, scalability, and maintainability.
Architect and implement web components that serve as the building blocks for our user interfaces.
Drive advanced theming solutions to support various brand identities and user preferences, leveraging CSS variables, variable stacking, and sophisticated color systems.
Manage the full lifecycle of design system components, from development to production deployment, versioning, and ongoing maintenance.
Oversee library and package dependency management, ensuring a stable and efficient development environment.
Collaborate closely with design, product, and other engineering teams to translate design principles into technical solutions.
Champion best practices in front-end development, performance, and accessibility.
Mentor and guide other developers on design system principles and implementation.
Develop, collaborate and maintain solid documentation components and guidelines for designers and developers.
Create working code demonstrations to showcase component usage and capabilities.