Senior Software Engineer, Front-End, Design Systems

Turo•San Francisco, CA

1d•$156,000 - $195,000•Hybrid

About The Position

We’re looking for a Senior Front-End Software Engineer to join Turo’s Design Systems team. You’ll help us architect, build, document, and maintain Pedal, our cross-platform system for iOS, Android, and Web. This role combines engineering and enablement. You’ll build foundations and components for Web, develop automation for scale, and help lead our team’s efforts to roll out AI-assisted workflows across Product, Design, and Engineering. You’ll also build relationships, process, tooling, and documentation to support an effective and well managed contribution model. Learn more about our Engineering team here: https://www.beforeyouapply.com/team/engineering-at-turo

Requirements

Fluent in HTML, CSS, CSS-in-JS, TypeScript, React, Git, GitHub.
Proficient with Storybook and Chromatic.
Familiar with Figma, SwiftUI, Jetpack Compose.
1+ years of regular use of LLMs and related tools in your engineering workflow.
Experience contributing to AI infrastructure for your organization.
You’ve helped teams select tooling and develop governance for shared context.
Skilled at developing and maintaining automated test coverage that provides high confidence with minimal friction.
Accessibility is a first-order concern in your work, not an afterthought.
Expertise developing responsive, flexible components that support internationalization, user preference, and the unexpected.
Deep understanding of composition in declarative component frameworks.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, especially when explaining complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
Experience developing projects start-to-finish in close, genuine collaboration with designers and engineers across multiple platforms. Not parallel work, integrated work.
Strong organizational skills, and an established practice to manage focus and maintain attention to detail, especially through long, complex projects with shifting requirements.
Track record of delivering projects on time.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
5+ years of professional experience as a front-end software engineer, ideally with experience on cross-functional product teams.
2+ of those years focused on Design Systems work within a dedicated Design Systems team.
Experience collaborating with designers, DS engineers, and system users during development of accessible, composable components with interfaces aligned across design and other supported platforms.
Experience guiding DS designers by providing engineering platform requirements, accessibility requirements, implementation examples from other systems, and exploratory code prototyping.
Hands-on experience migrating new components or breaking changes into a consuming application.

Nice To Haves

Experience with contribution models. You’ve worked at a company where product teams actively contribute to a shared design system, and you’ve helped make that work well.
Experience with LLM context engineering.
Previous experience in service industries, agencies, or other customer-focused environments.

Responsibilities

Architect, build, document, and maintain design system foundations and components for Web, with an eye toward cross-platform consistency.
Develop and maintain automations for release workflows, token pipelines, asset updates, documentation, testing, and adoption measurement.
Own the Pedal web repo: publish packages, merge dependency updates, maintain CI pipelines, GitHub Actions, and release processes.
Lead development of AI-assisted systems and workflows that support product development.
Collaborate on both technical implementation and organizational decision-making to help the team align on tools, techniques, and governance.
Build relationships with product teams that support and encourage system contribution.
Evangelize, coach, and educate contributing designers and engineers.
Provide customer support and education for system users.
Advise, coach, and mentor other engineers.
Participate in the hiring process.
Other duties as assigned

Benefits

Competitive salary, equity, benefits, and perks for all full-time employees
Employer-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance (Country specific)
Retirement employer match
Learning & Development stipend to invest in your professional development
Turo host matching program
Turo travel credit
Cell phone and internet stipend
Paid time off to relax and recharge
Paid holidays, volunteer time off, and parental leave
For those who are in the office full-time or hybrid we have in-office lunch, office snacks, and fun activities