Senior Staff Engineer, Design Systems

Amplify

2d•$170,000 - $190,000

About The Position

Amplify’s creative team brings a hands-on, collaborative approach to product development and design systems across digital, print, and interactive experiences. The Senior Staff Engineer on Amplify’s Product Brand team leads the technical architecture and implementation strategy for Amplify’s next-generation Design System, enabling consistent, accessible, and maintainable experiences across products and platforms. The role works at the intersection of Engineering, Product Design, accessibility, and emerging technologies, translating shared design standards into scalable technical solutions for adoption across the Amplify ecosystem. This role helps shape the Design System from an early stage by defining its technical foundations, engineering standards, and ways of working. In partnership with Product, Design, and Engineering leadership, the Senior Staff Engineer drives technical alignment, contribution models, and adoption across teams. As a hands-on technical leader, this person builds and validates solutions, improves development workflows, explores AI-assisted engineering practices, and mentors engineers to support a sustainable, widely adopted Design System.

Requirements

At least 8 years of relevant work experience in fields such as Front-end Developer, UI Engineer, Design Technologist, or Design Engineer.
Fluency in modern React, TypeScript, and JavaScript.
Fluency in semantic HTML, CSS, and responsive design.
Fluency in design systems architecture, reusable UI components, and design tokens.
Fluency in Figma for design-to-code workflows.
Fluency in Git and collaborative software development.
Fluency in frontend build tools, component packaging, and testing.
Fluency in web accessibility standards (WCAG) and accessible interaction patterns.
Fluency in scalable frontend architecture across multiple applications and technology stacks.
A body of work demonstrating experience building polished user interfaces, responsive layouts, and web apps, including at least some examples built with React.
Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional technical initiatives, influencing engineering decisions across teams, and managing stakeholders with competing priorities.

Nice To Haves

Experience with design in education technology or a related field.
Experience with Storybook or similar component documentation and development tools.
Familiarity with CSS custom properties, design tokens, and token-driven styling architectures.
Familiarity with scalable CSS methodologies.
Familiarity with contract-based design systems and component contracts.
Experience with Redux and state management.
Experience building, publishing, and maintaining Figma UI component libraries.
Building AI skills and modern token-driven design systems.

Responsibilities

Architect and build the technical foundations of Amplify’s next-generation Design System, including reusable component libraries, design tokens, and frontend infrastructure.
Partner with Design, Product, and Engineering leads to align technical strategy, priorities, and implementation approaches across teams.
Build relationships with stakeholders across Amplify, proactively identify dependencies, navigate competing requirements, and communicate technical decisions and tradeoffs.
Lead cross-team technical discussions, build consensus around shared standards, and drive Design System adoption across products without direct reporting authority.
Collaborate with Product Designers to translate design standards and component contracts into scalable, maintainable, and accessible implementations.
Establish engineering standards, implementation patterns, and code quality practices that support consistency, accessibility, and maintainability across products and platforms.
Develop and maintain Design System infrastructure, including repositories, component documentation, release processes, and contribution workflows.
Explore and implement AI-assisted development workflows to improve the efficiency and quality of component development, testing, and documentation.
Provide technical mentorship, architectural guidance, and code review support to engineers implementing Design System standards.
Help establish and lead technical governance processes, balancing shared standards with product-specific requirements, technical constraints, performance, and business needs.