Front-End Developer - Design Systems

PPT; North Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a front-end developer with strong React expertise to join their design system team. The role involves creating reusable components, ensuring design consistency, and improving developer workflows. A hybrid work environment is offered, along with a competitive salary and benefits.

Benefits

Health Insurance

Annual Vacation

Sick Days

Personal Days

Professional Growth Opportunities

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in front-end development, preferably on design systems.
• Strong proficiency in React.js and component-driven architectures.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate to define and implement shared React components.
• Provide documentation, migration guidance, and developer support.

Skills

React

Collaboration

Communication

Tools

Tailwind CSS

Storybook

Bitbucket

Job description

At Pacific Programming and Tech Inc., we thrive on collaboration, creativity, and technical excellence. Were looking for a front-end developer with strong React expertise to join our design system team and help build a scalable, high-performance component library that ensures consistency across our products.

About the Role

As a front-end developer on our design system team, you will play a key role in creating reusable, token-driven, and developer-friendly components that enable our product teams to iterate quickly while maintaining visual consistency across all products. Leveraging React and Tailwind CSS, you will build a system that is both efficient and easy to integrate, ensuring design and technical consistency across all applications.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with team members to define and implement shared React components that fit into the existing ecosystem, are accessible, performant, and easy to use.
• Apply design tokens and structured styling approaches to support branding and theming across multiple applications.
• Utilize tools such as Storybook, Token Studio, and Bitbucket for documentation, automation, and token management.
• Provide documentation, migration guidance, and developer support to facilitate adoption across teams.
• Address bug reports, component requests, and other needs from product teams to continuously improve the system.
• Integrate front-end components with external services, ensuring efficient data flow and consistent API consumption while maintaining performance and reliability.
• Maintain visual and functional consistency across the design system ecosystem.
• Continuously evaluate and adopt new tools and best practices to improve efficiency.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience working in front-end development, preferably on design systems.
• Strong proficiency in React.js and component-driven architectures.
• Experience with design tokens, scalable styling solutions, and Tailwind CSS.
• Knowledge of modern front-end documentation tools such as Storybook.
• Experience with monorepos and modular UI development.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work collaboratively across teams.

Nice to Have

• Experience integrating design systems into large-scale applications.
• Familiarity with Figma Dev Mode and design-to-code workflows.
• A strong eye for design combined with an understanding of technical constraints.
• Ability to work on internal tools using scripting, GitHub Actions, and the Figma API.
• Knowledge of accessibility (a11y) best practices, analytics, etc.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary and benefits package, including an extensive health insurance package, as well as annual vacation, sick, and personal days.
• Hybrid work environment (2 days on-site in Downtown Vancouver, 3 days remote).
• Collaborative and supportive culture that values technical excellence.
• Opportunities for professional growth and development.

If you are passionate about design systems, scalable component architecture, and improving developer workflows, wed love to hear from you! Apply now and join our team.

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