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Senior Software Engineer – Design Systems

Senior Software Engineer – Design Systems

CompanyDiscord
LocationSan Francisco, CA, USA
Salary$196000 – $220500
TypeFull-Time
Degrees
Experience LevelSenior

Requirements

  • 4+ years of work experience as a software engineer building, shipping, and iterating on product features or internal tools.
  • 1+ years experience working on a design system.
  • Expertise with web (React, TypeScript) or mobile (React Native, Swift, Objective-C, Kotlin) client-focused development.
  • A deep understanding of accessibility and its application in creating robust user interfaces.
  • Strong, clear written communication skills and a healthy appreciation for good documentation.
  • Experience working on cross-functional teams with designers or product managers.
  • Willingness and excitement to learn new technical skills and expand your toolkit.
  • A consistent track record of delivering multi-milestone projects on time and at a high level.
  • Experience safely migrating existing front-end codebases to new technical patterns at scale.

Responsibilities

  • Working closely with our engineers and designers to build and maintain our design system, Mana, (design tokens, components, and other code patterns) and improve it over time.
  • Authoring beautiful, accessible components that work across all our supported platforms (iOS, Android, desktop, and web).
  • Building internal tools like Figma plugins, codemods, and lint rules to empower all of our engineers and designers to use the design system to the fullest extent.
  • Providing guidance to teams on the best way to use design systems components and tools across their projects through pairing and documentation.
  • Create interactive prototypes to communicate your work. Use user research and data to inform your reasoning.
  • Inspire the entire team and our internal partners by bringing new ideas to the table and implementing them as next-generation product primitives.
  • Working with Staff+ level engineers to grow your skills and aptitudes.
  • Reviewing code and designs.

Preferred Qualifications

    No preferred qualifications provided.