Engineering Manager - Design System (x/f/m)

Doctolib; Paris; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid vacation

Mental health support

Flexible travel policy

Lunch vouchers

Job summary

Doctolib is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Design System team to lead Oxygen, our scalable design system infrastructure used across Europe. You will partner with designers, product managers, and engineers to deliver high-quality, accessible UI across web and mobile while promoting AI-powered tooling and best engineering practices.

You will mentor a growing team of engineers, own the roadmap, and drive technical alignment across multiple markets.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with 2-3+ years in management.
• Experience leading and developing engineers and fostering a strong engineering culture.
• Experience working with design systems and scalable component libraries.

Responsibilities

• Define team vision, strategy, and roadmap with product partner, owning end-to-end delivery and quality.
• Lead design, development, and evolution of Oxygen across web and mobile.
• Champion AI-first approaches, scaling AI-powered tools for UI development.
• Establish UI and accessibility engineering best practices with designers and product teams.
• Drive architectural alignment and ensure Design System integration across products.
• Coach and mentor engineers, fostering ownership and continuous improvement.

Skills

Engineering management

Team leadership

Design systems

UI engineering

Accessibility

AI-first mindset

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentoring

English proficiency

Tools

Rails

TypeScript

Java

Python

Kotlin

Swift

React Native

Job description

Your mission

At Doctolib, we're building digital health solutions used by more than 90 million patients and 520,000 healthcare professionals across Europe. The quality, consistency, and accessibility of our interfaces are critical to that mission. That's exactly what our Design System team makes possible.

As Engineering Manager of the Design System team, you will lead the engineering efforts behind Oxygen, Doctolib's design system. Oxygen goes far beyond a component library: it is the infrastructure that ensures design quality at scale and delivers our brand identity consistently across an AI-first development environment. With over 50 designers and several hundred engineers building across multiple markets and product surfaces, your work directly shapes the experience of every user who interacts with Doctolib.

Working at the intersection of Design and Engineering, you will partner with designers, product managers, and engineers to turn our Design System vision into scalable technical solutions that power consistent, high-quality user interfaces across all Doctolib products.

What you'll do

• Define your team's vision, strategy, and roadmap alongside your Product partner, bringing strong technical perspectives to shape and challenge priorities, and take end-to-end ownership of engineering delivery and quality.
• Lead the technical design, development, and evolution of Oxygen , ensuring its components and foundations are accessible, robust, reusable, and scalable across our products.
• Champion an AI-first approach , exploring and scaling AI-powered tools and workflows that help designers and engineers build high-quality user interfaces more efficiently.
• Establish and promote UI and accessibility engineering best practices , working closely with designers, product teams, and our accessibility specialist to drive adoption across the organization.
• Drive technical alignment across engineering teams , fostering collaboration and ensuring the Design System integrates seamlessly across our web and mobile ecosystems.
• Coach, mentor, and develop your engineers , fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.

Who you are

• You have at least 8+ years of software engineering experience, combined with 2-3 + years of management experience
• Have experience leading, coaching, and developing engineers, helping them grow while fostering a strong engineering culture.
• Understand the value of design systems and have experience creating, maintaining, or contributing to component libraries that scale across multiple teams
• Have a strong understanding of UI engineering principles and experience building consistent, high-quality user interfaces across web and mobile platforms, working closely with designers.
• Adapt quickly to change, embracing uncertainty and consistently solving problems to achieve meaningful outcomes.
• Are committed to accessibility and understand the importance of building inclusive user experiences that comply with WCAG guidelines
• Have proven experience developing maintainable and secure products with a focus on code quality, testing, and documentation
• Your English skills allow you to have high quality daily interactions with the team. German or French are a plus.

Now, it would be fantastic if you:

• Have experience improving developer experience and driving the adoption of shared UI components and tooling across engineering teams.
• Have worked with cross-platform design systems, understanding the challenges of maintaining consistency across web and native mobile applications.
• Know how to implement frontend monitoring and observability to improve UI reliability and performance.
• Have contributed to open source or maintained internal tools/libraries

Life at Doctolib Tech

Our solutions are built on a single fully cloud-native platform that supports web and mobile app interfaces, multiple languages, and is adapted to country and healthcare specialty requirements.

Our stack is composed of Rails, TypeScript, Java, Python, Kotlin, Swift, and React Native.

We leverage AI ethically across our products to empower patients and health professionals. Discover our AI vision here .

Want to learn more about our tech culture and environment? Visit the Doctolib Tech site .

What we offer

• Free comprehensive health insurance (basic package) for you and your children
• 25 days of paid vacation per year, plus up to 14 days of RTT
• Free mental health and coaching services through our partner Moka.care
• Work from abroad for up to 10 days per year thanks to our flexibility days policy
• Lunch vouchers (Swile card) worth €8.50 per working day, with €4.50 covered by Doctolib
• A subsidy from the work council to refund part of the membership to a sport club