Senior Software Engineer, Design Systems

Summary

Join Discord's Design Systems team as a Software Engineer and contribute to the development and maintenance of Mana, their design system. You will be responsible for creating accessible components across platforms, building internal tools, providing guidance to teams, and creating interactive prototypes. This role requires strong communication skills, experience with web or mobile development, and a deep understanding of accessibility. You will also have the opportunity to learn new technical skills and work with experienced engineers.

Requirements

• 4+ years of work experience as a software engineer building, shipping, and iterating on product features or internal tools
• 1+ years experience working on a design system
• Expertise with web (React, TypeScript) or mobile (React Native, Swift, Objective-C, Kotlin) client-focused development. We're a cross-platform team and believe that engineers should be empowered to work across a variety of tech stacks. We'll support you in learning the stacks you don't know!
• A deep understanding of accessibility and its application in creating robust user interfaces
• Strong, clear written communication skills and a healthy appreciation for good documentation
• Experience working on cross-functional teams with designers or product managers
• Willingness and excitement to learn new technical skills and expand your toolkit
• A consistent track record of delivering multi-milestone projects on time and at a high level
• Experience safely migrating existing front-end codebases to new technical patterns at scale

Responsibilities

• Working closely with our engineers and designers to build and maintain our design system, Mana, (design tokens, components, and other code patterns) and improve it over time
• Authoring beautiful, accessible components that work across all our supported platforms (iOS, Android, desktop, and web)
• Building internal tools like Figma plugins, codemods, and lint rules to empower all of our engineers and designers to use the design system to the fullest extent
• Providing guidance to teams on the best way to use design systems components and tools across their projects through pairing and documentation
• Create interactive prototypes to communicate your work
• Use user research and data to inform your reasoning
• Inspire the entire team and our internal partners by bringing new ideas to the table and implementing them as next-generation product primitives
• Working with Staff+ level engineers to grow your skills and aptitudes
• Reviewing code and designs

Benefits

• The US base salary range for this full-time position is $196,000 - $220,500 + equity + benefits
• Our salary ranges are determined by role and level
• Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training
• Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits