Design Systems Engineer

Summary

Join Addepar's Web Platform Engineering team as a Software Engineer to build and maintain the company's in-house design system. You will collaborate with engineers, designers, and product owners to create high-performing, accessible, and globally functional user interfaces. This role requires experience with TypeScript or JavaScript frameworks, a passion for best practices, and excellent communication skills. The position offers a competitive salary range, bonus, equity, and benefits. Addepar's design system is central to the company's growth strategy, focusing on consistency, performance, accessibility, and localization. You will work on various aspects of the UI platform, including build systems, web components, and design token solutions. Addepar embraces a global flexible workforce model.

Requirements

• B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science or similar technical field of study (or equivalent practical experience.)
• 3+ years experience as a professional software engineer
• A passion for establishing and evangelizing best practices
• A bias toward smart automation
• Proven ability to collaborate with other engineers and designers
• 3+ years of experience with other TypeScript or JavaScript frameworks such as Ember.js, React, etc
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills

Responsibilities

• Partner with engineers, designers and product owners to deliver high performing customer experiences that are engaging, purposeful and powerful in their simplicity
• Tackle the challenge of building a global product, and a global team
• Implement the common building blocks of Addepar’s user experience, and support their adoption across the product engineering organization
• Create interfaces that are accessible, that work for a global user base, which perform well, and which deliver a great user experience
• Advocate for best practices and process improvements

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience with Stencil, TailwindCSS, and Web Components
• Experience building scalable systems, modeling financial data, or building intuitive, feature-rich user interfaces

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Benefits