Senior Staff Engineer, Design Systems

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AmplifyEducation technology

Remote - United StatesFull-TimeStaff

Salary$170K - $190K; $170K – $190K • Offers Bonus

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Have 8+ years of relevant work experience.
Bring experience in front-end development, UI engineering, design technology, or design engineering.
Be fluent in modern React, TypeScript, and JavaScript.
Be fluent in semantic HTML, CSS, and responsive design.
Understand design systems architecture, reusable UI components, and design tokens.
Use Figma for design-to-code workflows.
Have experience with Git and collaborative software development.
Understand frontend build tools, component packaging, and testing.
Know web accessibility standards (WCAG) and accessible interaction patterns.
Have experience with scalable frontend architecture across multiple applications and technology stacks.
Provide a body of work demonstrating polished user interfaces, responsive layouts, and web apps, including examples built with React.
Demonstrate experience leading cross-functional technical initiatives, influencing engineering decisions across teams, and managing stakeholders with competing priorities.
Preferred: Experience in education technology or a related field; Storybook or similar tools; CSS custom properties, design tokens, and token-driven styling; scalable CSS methodologies; component contracts; Redux and state management; Figma UI component libraries; or AI skills and modern token-driven design systems.

Architect and build reusable component libraries, design tokens, and frontend infrastructure for Amplify’s next-generation Design System.
Align technical strategy, priorities, and implementation approaches with Design, Product, and Engineering leads.
Build stakeholder relationships, identify dependencies, navigate competing requirements, and communicate technical tradeoffs.
Lead cross-team technical discussions, build consensus around shared standards, and drive adoption across products.
Translate design standards and component contracts into scalable, maintainable, and accessible implementations with Product Designers.
Establish engineering standards, implementation patterns, and code quality practices.
Develop and maintain repositories, component documentation, release processes, and contribution workflows.
Explore and implement AI-assisted development workflows for component development, testing, and documentation.
Provide technical mentorship, architectural guidance, and code review support to engineers.
Establish and lead technical governance processes that balance shared standards with product-specific needs and constraints.

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