Staff Engineer - Design System

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We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Staff Engineer to join our Design System team, a cross-functional team of engineers and designers responsible for our design system in-house tooling. In this high impact role, you will lead the technical vision and strategy for Kaizen, our design system, and work closely with your team to deliver high priority outcomes to all our internal product teams.
Kaizen is a library of React components that has been under development since 2017. You can view its documentation at , and its source code on GitHub. When practical, we use React Aria Components as our foundation for new Kaizen components.
The Design System team helps Culture Amp product teams to create user experiences that are cohesive, intuitive, accessible and delightful, and to do so efficiently. We share a passion for user experience and for empowering other teams.
Engineering at Culture Amp is an inclusive practice distributed across cross-functional, lightweight Agile teams, which are remote-friendly, and all of which embrace flexible work arrangements. You will be surrounded by talented engineers, and a cross-functional team including product management, design and delivery. You have great senior leadership support to make some large changes to all our in-house product teams.
As part of this team of amazing humans,
You will:
Drive the technical vision and strategy for Culture Amp's design system. Drive continuous improvements to design system tooling (Storybook, codemods, etc.), engineering systems and processes relating to your team's work and the delivery of design system updates to other teams. Play an important role in coaching and uplifting other engineers in your team. Build connections with other teams, and influence adoption of the design system and inner source contributions to the design system. You have:
Solid understanding of systems architecture and programming. Expertise in web platform fundamentals (HTML, CSS, DOM, accessibility, performance, responsive design) and modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g. React). Experience building large-scale JavaScript/TypeScript applications (design patterns, component API design, codebase health and scalability). Experience building a React component library reused by multiple teams with high quality standards (accessibility, responsiveness, strong types, …). Experience in change management and communication of change at scale. You are:
Passionate about design systems, and empowering other teams. Able to influence others without authority, working collaboratively with diverse engineers and cross-functional teams. A proactive and clear communicator. You value empathy and kindness and are able to articulate your ideas and feelings when writing or speaking, and are open to the perspectives others bring. Self-motivated and can work independently. You take the initiative to ensure that you have everything you need to work efficiently and call for support when required. We believe that our employees are the heartbeat of our success. We're committed to fostering a work environment that truly cares for and develops its people, and creates lasting positive impact. In addition to providing a competitive compensation package, some of the key benefits we offer are:
Employee Share Options Program: We empower you to be an owner in Culture Amp and share in our success. Programs, coaching, and budgets to help you thrive personally and professionally. Access to external providers for mental wellbeing and coaching support to sustain the wellbeing, safety and development of our people. Monthly Camper Life Allowance: An automatic allowance paid out each month with your pay - you can spend it however you like to help improve your experience and life outside work. Team budgets dedicated to team building activities and connection. Intentional quarterly wellbeing pauses: A quarterly company-wide shutdown day in each region to collectively pause, reset and focus on restoration and rest, without having to tap into individual vacation time. Extended year-end breaks: An extended refresh period at the end of year. Excellent parental leave and in-work support program available from day 1 of joining Culture Amp. 5 Social Impact Days a year to make a positive impact on the community outside of work. MacBooks for you to do your best & a work from home office budget to spend on setting up your home office. Medical insurance coverage for you and your family (Available for US & UK only). Additionally, we don't just focus on our internal community; we believe in creating a better world of work for all. We're committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, with Employee Resource Groups and ally communities in place.
We have a strong commitment to Anti-Racism and endeavor to lead by example. Every step we make as a business towards anti-racism is another step we can take to support our customers in making a better world (of work). You can see our current commitments to Anti-Racism here.
Please keep reading... Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often don't apply for roles if they don't meet all the criteria – unlike majority candidates meeting significantly fewer requirements.
We strongly encourage you to apply if you're interested: we'd love to know how you can amplify our team with your unique experience!
Thank you for taking the time to read this advert. If you decide to apply, as part of your application, we will ask you to complete voluntary diversity questions (excluding Germany). Please watch this video from our amazing DEI Leader, Aubrey Blanche to share more on why we collect the data and how we will use it.
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