Lead Frontend Engineer - Design System

Summary

Join Supermetrics' Design System Team as a Lead Front-end Engineer and help build Metri, a comprehensive design system for their marketing intelligence platform. You will collaborate with a Design System Designer to establish and build the design system from the ground up, ensuring its consistency, scalability, and usability. You will work closely with product designers and engineering teams to bridge the gap between design and code, ensuring that Metri's components and patterns are implemented correctly and consistently. This role requires strong experience in building web app user interfaces and components, developing and maintaining design systems, and proficiency in React, Typescript, and accessibility best practices.

Requirements

• Demonstrable skill in building web app user interfaces and components to a very high standard
• Experience in developing and maintaining design systems or component libraries
• Advanced proficiency in React and Typescript
• A skilled understanding of accessibility best practices (semantic HTML, ARIA)
• Experience with Storybook for component documentation and development
• Solid understanding of modern front-end development practices, including automated testing and release management
• Effective communication and collaboration skills – You know how to inspire, advocate, and align teams around a shared vision, effectively bringing designers, developers, and stakeholders on board
• Ability to see both the system and its details, ensuring consistency across components and streamlining implementation of common UI patterns
• A keen understanding of design principles and proficiency in Figma or comparable design software. Ability to contribute or prototype on the design side

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a high-quality, robust design system – Build and maintain reusable UI components using React and Chakra UI, ensuring accessibility, usability, performance, and brand consistency
• Work in close collaboration with a dedicated Design System Designer. You will jointly own the creation and evolution of the design system
• Create frameworks and governance models that enable designers and developers to collaborate seamlessly and work efficiently with Metri
• Manage the technical implementation, adoption, and evolution – Provide technical guidance, support contributions, and facilitate internal upgrades and migrations to ensure widespread and effective use across the company
• Ensure high-quality implementation – Work with engineering teams and their product designers to bridge the gap between design and code, ensuring that Metri’s components and patterns are implemented correctly and consistently
• Building and refining the Design System, its components, and the supporting technical ecosystem
• Managing the effective adoption and implementation of Metri across teams
• Collaborating with the appointed Product Designer to address technical challenges and ensure smooth integration
• Creating and maintaining documentation for developers on how to use the design system, and facilitating contributions
• Ensuring Metri remains innovative through the adoption of industry best practices and ongoing enhancements

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package, including equity
• Excellent work equipment and home office allowance for those working in our fully remote locations
• Health care benefits and leisure time insurance
• Annual learning budget
• Sports and wellbeing allowance