Senior Design Developer

Dialogue; Montreal (administrative region); On-site; CAD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Health coverage

Wellness budget

Vacation & wellness days

Work abroad

RRSP matching

Learning budget

Mentorship

Parental leave top-up

Job summary

Dialogue is seeking a Senior Design Developer to lead the design system and component library evolution. You will strengthen foundations, tokens, patterns, and contribution workflows to ship faster with higher quality, accessibility, and consistency.

You’ll drive design system adoption, partner with squads to migrate to shared components, and shape collaboration between designers and engineers for scalable, safe changes that empower many teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building design systems & component libraries for digital products teams.
• Frontend development depth with production UI, code quality, testing, and maintainable architecture.
• Ability to interpret and challenge design decisions, spotting UX issues early.
• WCAG-informed accessibility experience beyond a checklist.
• Systems mindset focused on foundations and scalable design.
• Collaborative influence across Design, Product, and Development.

Responsibilities

• Enable teams to ship UI faster and more consistently by building foundations and providing support.
• Drive design system adoption by migrating to shared components and documenting best practices.
• Own UI quality as a system, fixing inconsistencies and preventing regressions.
• Foster collaboration between design and engineering for faster iteration.
• Build safe contribution workflows to enable broad participation.
• Explore AI-assisted building with guardrails to keep changes reviewable.

Skills

Frontend development

Design systems

Accessibility

Collaboration

AI tools

Job description

Dialogue is the #1 virtual care provider in Canada. By developing our Integrated Health Platform, we provide exceptional online health and wellness programs (primary care, mental health, iCBT, EAP, and wellness) to organizations that want to improve the wellness of their employees and families.

When it comes to our work, we set the bar high. Together, we’re transforming health and helping millions improve their well‑being. We’re firm believers that great people don’t settle on:

• Impact
• Community
• Growth

Feel like you can make a difference? Good news, we saved you a seat!

Come as you are. As a proud equal‑opportunity employer, Dialogue is dedicated to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. Qualified applicants will be considered regardless of citizenship, ethnicity, race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, age, or veteran status. Applicants who require specialized accommodation are encouraged to contact [e-mail].

AI Disclosure Statement

To ensure an efficient and fair review process, we utilize artificial intelligence tools to assist in the initial screening and assessment of applicants for this role.

Dialogue only contacts candidates through official @dialogue.co email addresses. We never request payment, gift cards, or personal financial information at any stage of hiring, and we never extend an offer without a structured interview process. All open roles are listed exclusively at dialogue.co/en/careers. If you receive a suspicious communication claiming to be from Dialogue, do not respond — report it to [e-mail] and verify the role on our official careers page.

Your role as Senior Design Developer

Dialogue is building a connected care experience where quality, trust, and speed matter. As our first Senior Design Developer, your primary focus is enabling designers and developers across Dialogue to ship faster—with higher quality, accessibility, and consistency—by strengthening the design system, patterns, and contribution workflows. Your north star is adoption: making the design system easy to use, easy to trust, and safe for many people to contribute to—so squads ship faster with less drift.

What you’ll be doing

• Enable teams to ship UI faster and more consistently: Build the foundations (components, tokens, patterns, docs, examples) and provide the support (pairing, office hours) that make the design system the default path.
• Drive design system adoption: Partner with squads to migrate to shared components, run enablement (docs, examples, office hours), and make it the default path—not the “nice to have” path.
• Own UI quality as a system: Identify sources of inconsistency (UX drift, edge cases, accessibility gaps), fix them at the right level (component, token, guideline, lint/test, workflow), and prevent regressions.
• Create strong design and engineering collaboration: Improve handoffs and day‑to‑day pairing so designers and engineers can iterate faster with fewer misunderstandings.
• Make safe change easy: Build contribution workflows (how work gets proposed, reviewed, merged, released) so improvements can come from many people—not just you.
• Support AI‑assisted building responsibly: Explore how AI can accelerate UI iteration while keeping guardrails so changes remain consistent, reviewable, and safe to ship.

We’d love to hear from you if you have

• Senior‑level design & engineering experience: 5+ years building design systems & component libraries for digital products teams.
• Frontend development depth: Strong experience shipping production UI and comfort with code quality, testing, and maintainable architecture.
• Design fluency: You can interpret and challenge design decisions, spot UX issues early, and implement nuanced UI details without hand‑holding.
• Accessibility experience: Practical ability to build accessible components and interactions (WCAG‑informed), not just “run a checklist.”
• Systems mindset: You naturally look for leverage—solving root causes and building foundations instead of repeatedly patching symptoms.
• Collaborative influence: You can align stakeholders, explain tradeoffs, and move work forward across Design, Product, and Development. You’re comfortable influencing without authority and building trust through partnership.
• Experience in regulated / high‑trust product areas (privacy, reliability, auditability)
• Experience using AI tools to improve speed and quality in your workflow.

At Dialogue, your well‑being is our priority

Taking care of others also means taking care of our team! Depending on your role and employment status, you could have access to the following benefits:

• Access to the Dialogue app and virtual mental health support for you and your family
• Fully funded insurance, a health spending account, dental coverage, and fitness reimbursement
• 4 weeks vacation, 9 wellness days, and 1 volunteer day
• Hybrid work: 3 days/week in our Montreal or Toronto offices, excluding remote roles
• Work abroad up to 4 weeks/year
• Incentive plans, referral bonuses & RRSP matching
• Learning via Coursera, external training budget & mentorship
• Optional parental leave top‑up