30 days ago
USA (city not specified)Staff+
Base Salary
$174k - $262k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the technical architecture, packaging, peer dependencies, publication path, and multi-version consumption strategy for the design system.
- Define versioning, deprecation, breaking-change, migration, build, release, and testing strategies for libraries used by more than 60 repositories.
- Develop automated visual regression testing and a token pipeline that keeps design and code aligned.
- Architect the library for compliant and accessible code generation by AI coding agents.
- Define accessibility standards and automate conformance validation in the engineering pipeline.
- Own reliability and incident response for new and legacy libraries, including severity and escalation models.
- Resolve complex cross-organizational technical problems through technical leadership, collaboration, and hands-on implementation.
- Drive frontend engineering standards through design and code reviews, documented patterns, coaching, and alignment with product strategy.
Requirements
- 10+ years building and operating frontend systems that other engineering teams depend on.
- Demonstrated technical leadership across multiple teams or domains and the ability to define direction and drive alignment without formal authority.
- Strong background in architecture, security, and reliability at scale.
- Experience translating business goals into technical strategy.
- Strong mentorship and technical communication skills.
- Deep React and TypeScript experience.
- Experience owning build and release tooling for a published package rather than only consuming one.
- Deep experience with semantic HTML, CSS, and accessible component patterns.
- Preferred: experience building and maintaining a multi-team design system.
- Preferred: fluency with Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or Cursor.
- Preferred: experience planning large design-system migrations, setting automated accessibility standards, and modernizing legacy frontend systems.
Benefits
- Hybrid/remote work arrangement.
- Competitive base salary, annual performance bonus, long-term incentives, and an equity program.
- Health and retirement programs, wellness resources, discretionary time off, and parental leave for primary and secondary caregivers.
- Two annual company breaks and a home office stipend.
- Volunteer opportunities and company-sponsored charitable programs.