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Senior Staff Engineer, Design Systems

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Senior Staff Engineer, Design Systems in USA

  • Amplify
  • Full time
  • Email
  • Remote

Responsibilities

  • Architect and build reusable component libraries, design tokens, and frontend infrastructure for Amplify’s next-generation Design System.
  • Partner with Design, Product, and Engineering leaders to align technical strategy, priorities, and implementation approaches.
  • Lead cross-team technical discussions, build consensus, and drive Design System adoption across products without direct reporting authority.
  • Translate design standards and component contracts into scalable, maintainable, and accessible implementations.
  • Establish engineering standards, implementation patterns, code quality practices, and technical governance processes.
  • Maintain repositories, component documentation, release processes, and contribution workflows for shared systems.
  • Explore and implement AI-assisted development workflows for component development, testing, and documentation.
  • Provide technical mentorship, architectural guidance, and code review support to engineers.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of relevant work experience in areas such as frontend development, UI engineering, design technology, or design engineering.
  • Fluency in modern React, TypeScript, JavaScript, semantic HTML, CSS, responsive design, design systems architecture, reusable UI components, design tokens, Figma, Git, frontend build tools, component packaging, testing, and web accessibility standards.
  • Experience building polished user interfaces, responsive layouts, and web applications, including examples built with React.
  • Experience with scalable frontend architecture across multiple applications and technology stacks.
  • Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional technical initiatives, influencing engineering decisions across teams, and managing stakeholders with competing priorities.
  • Preferred qualifications include education technology or related design experience, Storybook or similar tools, CSS custom properties, scalable CSS methodologies, component contracts, Redux and state management, Figma UI component libraries, and AI skills.

Salary: $170k - $190k/yr

Amplify

Amplify builds K–12 curriculum, assessments, and supplemental learning software for schools and districts, delivered through the Amplify Classroom platform and supporting digital and print instruction. It sells into U.S. school systems, including statewide adoptions, and provides professional dev...

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