Staff Engineer - Design System

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Staff Engineer to join our Design System team, a cross-functional team of engineers and designers responsible for our design system in-house tooling. In this high impact role, you will lead the technical vision and strategy for our design system, and work closely with your team to deliver high priority outcomes to all our internal product teams.

The Design System team helps Culture Amp product teams to create user experiences that are cohesive, intuitive, accessible and delightful, and to do so efficiently. We share a passion for user experience, and for empowering others teams.

Engineering at Culture Amp is an inclusive practice distributed across cross-functional, lightweight Agile teams, which are remote-friendly, and all of which embrace flexible work arrangements. You will be surrounded by talented engineers, and a cross-functional team including product management, design and delivery. You have great senior leadership support to make some large changes to all our inhouse product teams.

As part of this team of amazing humans,

You will

• Drive the technical vision and strategy for Culture Amp’s design system
• Drive continuous improvements to design system tooling (Storybook, codemods, etc.), engineering systems and processes relating to your team’s work and the delivery of design system updates to other teams
• Play an important role in coaching and uplifting other engineers in your team
• Build connections with other teams, and influence adoption of the design system and inner source contributions to the design system

You have

• Solid understanding of systems architecture and programming
• Expertise in web platform fundamentals (HTML, CSS, DOM, accessibility, performance, responsive design) and modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g. React)
• Experience building large-scale JavaScript/TypeScript applications (design patterns, component API design, codebase health and scalability)
• Experience building a React component library reused by multiple teams with high quality standards (accessibility, responsiveness, strong types, …)
• Experience in change management and communication of change at scale

You are

• Passionate about design systems, and empowering other teams
• Able to influence others without authority, working collaboratively with diverse engineers and cross-functional teams
• A proactive and clear communicator. You value empathy and kindness and are able to articulate your ideas and feelings when writing or speaking, and are open to the perspectives others bring
• Self-motivated and can work independently. You take the initiative to ensure that you have everything you need to work efficiently and call for support when required