18 days ago
Toronto, CanadaSenior
Base Salary
$82k - $96k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop, maintain, and enhance reusable web and mobile components for the Lexicon Design System.
- Collaborate with UX designers, accessibility specialists, and engineering teams to deliver accessible, production-ready components.
- Identify, troubleshoot, and remediate accessibility issues in alignment with WCAG standards.
- Validate component reliability, performance, accessibility, and cross-browser compatibility, especially in Safari and macOS environments.
- Create automated tests, documentation, implementation guidance, development standards, and adoption resources for product teams.
- Support design-system governance, versioning, release management, and developer experience improvements.
Requirements
- Require 5+ years of professional front-end development experience building modern web applications and user interfaces.
- Require strong HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and TypeScript skills plus experience with modern front-end frameworks and development practices.
- Require experience building, maintaining, and scaling reusable component libraries or enterprise design systems.
- Require hands-on implementation experience with WCAG 2.1 and WCAG 2.2, accessibility testing, remediation, and inclusive design.
- Require experience resolving complex cross-browser compatibility issues, particularly in Safari and macOS.
- Require experience translating Figma designs into scalable, maintainable, production-ready components and creating automated tests.
- Require strong analytical, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Preferred qualifications include enterprise-scale design-system experience, design tokens, governance models, accessibility audits, responsive and mobile-first design, performance optimization, developer tooling, documentation frameworks, component showcases, versioning, release management, and modern accessibility, visual regression, and cross-browser testing tools.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring four days per week in a client or Cognizant office in Toronto, Ontario, subject to project and business requirements.
- Eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual performance-based bonus and benefits supporting physical, mental, and financial wellbeing.
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About Cognizant
Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) is an AI Builder and technology services provider, bridging the gap between AI investment and enterprise value. We build full-stack AI solutions powered by deep industry, process and engineering expertise — embedding an organization's unique context into technology systems that amplify human potential and drive tangible outcomes. From strategy to deployment, we help global enterprises move from AI ambition to AI impact and stay ahead in a fast-changing world. See how at cognizant.ai | Follow us @cognizant