Principal React & Design Systems Engineer

Elastic

España

Hybrid

EUR 80,000 - 127,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay based on the work you

Health coverage for you and yourfamily

Flexible locations and schedules

Generous vacation days

Job summary

Elastic is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead the Global UX engineering team responsible for EUI, Elastic's design system and React component library. You will set technical direction, mentor engineers, and align design intent with component architecture.

This hands-on leadership role requires deep React and TypeScript expertise, experience building scalable design systems, and a track record of guiding teams through architecture decisions, API design, and theming.

Qualifications

Hands-on expertise building React/TypeScript component libraries in production.
Experience scaling design systems across many teams.
Strong leadership and communication in distributed teams.
Experience with design language, APIs, and theming.
Ability to mentor engineers and drive architecture decisions.
Experience with AI to improve design-to-code workflows.

Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership for the company UI (EUI) across teams.
Own hard technical decisions in component architecture and token systems.
Mentor and grow engineers; perform code reviews and design critiques.
Collaborate with design leadership to translate design language into components.
Drive adoption of the design system across the company.
Ensure accessibility, performance, and cross-browser correctness.
Represent Global UX in cross-functional planning.
Explore AI opportunities in design-to-code workflow.