Senior Design Developer

Dialogue; Toronto; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Vacation & wellness days

Insurance & health spending account

RRSP matching

Learning budget & mentorship

Parental leave top-up

Job summary

Dialogue is hiring a Senior Design Developer to strengthen the design system and enable designers and developers to ship faster with high quality, accessibility, and consistency.

You will focus on adoption of shared components, improving collaboration, and building safe, scalable workflows so squads can deliver reliable, accessible UI at scale. The role supports AI-enabled building and requires a systems mindset, frontend depth, and a passion for inclusive design.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building design systems & component libraries for digital products teams.
• Strong experience shipping production UI and maintainable architecture.
• Ability to interpret and challenge design decisions, spot UX issues early.
• Build accessible components and interactions (WCAG-informed).
• Systems thinker who builds foundations rather than patching symptoms.
• Collaborate with Design, Product, and Development stakeholders.
• Experience in regulated/high-trust product areas (privacy, reliability, auditability).
• Experience using AI tools to improve speed and quality in workflow.

Responsibilities

• Enable teams to ship UI faster and consistently: build foundations (components, tokens, patterns, docs, examples) and provide support that makes the design system the default path.
• Drive design system adoption: partner with squads to migrate to shared components and make it the default path.
• Own UI quality as a system: identify inconsistencies and fix at the component/token/guideline level to prevent regressions.
• Create strong design-engineering collaboration: improve handoffs and pairing for faster iteration with fewer misunderstandings.
• Make safe change easy: build contribution workflows for broad participation across the team.
• Support AI-assisted building responsibly: explore AI to accelerate UI iteration with guardrails.

Skills

Senior design & engineering experience

Frontend development depth

Design fluency

Accessibility experience

Systems mindset

Collaborative influence

Regulated/high-trust product

Experience using 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