Staff Frontend Engineer - Design Systems

Requirements

• Building and maintaining component libraries or platform-like products that serve multiple teams.
• TypeScript and modern frontend engineering (React experience is a plus).
• Designing maintainable systems with clear boundaries, versioning, and backwards compatibility.
• Testing practices and tooling (unit, integration, end-to-end) and a strong quality mindset.
• Accessibility and performance best practices for UI systems.
• Collaboration with designers and product engineers, and navigating tradeoffs across stakeholders.

What you'll be doing

• Set technical direction for key parts of Telescope (architecture, component standards, release practices, and quality bars).
• Drive and evolve our contribution model and how teams interact with Design Systems.
• Own and improve how requests flow into the team (triage, prioritisation, and expectations).
• Improve the developer and contributor experience through tooling and automation:
• Design system visual testing and workflows.
• Supporting internal operational needs where relevant.
• Improving how we measure and communicate adoption and system health.
• Evolving our docs publishing workflow.
• Lead rituals that keep the team effective and aligned.
• Represent Design Systems in cross-team initiatives and align stakeholders across Design and Engineering.
• Coach and mentor engineers, and help grow technical leadership in the frontend community.
• Contribute hands-on in code. This role blends strategy and execution. You should expect to be coding a meaningful part of the time.

Your colleagues would say you

• Lead by example and raise the bar with pragmatism and care.
• Communicate clearly, listen well, and bring people along in decisions.
• Enjoy breaking down complex problems, gathering input, and driving to a solution.
• Coach others and create space for people to grow.
• Prefer progress over perfection, while still caring deeply about quality.

Perks and Benefits

• Your own Pleo card (no more out-of-pocket spending!)
• Lunch is on us for your work days - enjoy catered meals or receive a lunch allowance based on your local office.
• Comprehensive private healthcare - depending on your location, coverage options include Vitality, Alan or Médis.
• We offer 25 days of holiday + your public holidays.
• For our Team, we offer both hybrid and fully remote working options.
• We use MyndUp to give our employees access to free mental health and well-being support with great success so far.
• Paid parental leave - we want to make sure that we're supportive of families and help you feel that you don't have to compromise your family due to work.