Senior Design Engineer, Design System

Responsibilities

Our talent team is representing a confidential enterprise software organization seeking a Senior Design Engineer to lead their design system initiatives. In this senior individual-contributor role, you will:

• Design and build production components in Angular and TypeScript, working with semantic HTML, ARIA, and modern CSS custom properties driving design tokens
• Own interaction decisions, component design, and front-end architecture end-to-end, independently translating ambiguous requirements into thoughtful, usable experiences
• Translate complex data and AI-driven behaviors into clear, intuitive, high-performance operator experiences
• Set technical and craft standards for front-end quality, including polish, motion and animation, performance, and accessibility across the team
• Drive rapid prototyping to explore novel interaction concepts and turn ambitious design visions into distinctive, testable experiences
• Collaborate with designers, product managers, and engineers to evolve the design system through a healthy contribution model
• Maintain tokens-as-code in W3C DTCG format and structure component metadata, documentation, and APIs so AI coding agents can consume them as reliable context
• Author and maintain Figma Code Connect mappings linking Figma components to their coded counterparts
• Build automated checks for visual regression, accessibility, and token compliance in CI to ensure generated and contributed UI meets quality standards
• Use AI tooling daily, applying senior design and engineering judgment to critique and correct output
• Lead system initiatives and mentor designers and engineers contributing to the design system

What We're Looking For

We're seeking candidates with strong expertise in design systems and front-end engineering:

• Approximately 5–8 years of experience across design engineering, UX engineering, or front-end development, including significant hands-on work building a design system or component library in a SaaS or B2B environment
• Excellent UX instincts with strong attention to interaction detail and usability; ability to own design decisions independently with minimal oversight
• Strong production front-end skills in Angular and TypeScript with rock-solid HTML and CSS fundamentals; experience with or genuine openness to React is a plus
• Deep understanding of design token architecture and modern token pipelines
• Strong Figma fluency and comfort moving fluidly between design and code
• Demonstrated accessibility expertise (WCAG 2.2) implemented in production code
• Hands-on fluency with AI design and coding tools, with an opinionated, responsible point of view on using them
• Strong product mindset and bias toward ownership, plus the communication and leadership skills expected of a senior individual contributor

Bonus qualifications that strengthen your candidacy:

• Experience with Figma Code Connect in production
• Experience building or integrating Model Context Protocol servers
• Experience building evaluations for AI-generated UI, or writing specifications and prompts for AI generation
• Background working on complex, data-dense, or real-time interfaces
• Token-pipeline experience with Style Dictionary, Tokens Studio, or equivalent tools

This position is based in Munich and offers hybrid work arrangements.

How We Work with You

When you apply through Get A Job.ai, here's what happens next:

• Submit your application directly on our platform at getajob.ai
• One of our specialized recruiters will screen your profile and experience
• If there's a strong match, we'll submit your candidacy to our client on your behalf
• We'll guide you through the interview process and provide coaching along the way
• Please do not contact the client directly; all communication flows through Get A Job.ai to ensure the best candidate experience

Pay

Compensation details will be discussed during the screening process with our recruiting team.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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