Senior Design System Engineer

devrev; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A forward-thinking technology company in London seeks a Senior Design System Engineer to own and evolve their design system. You will architect design tokens, create modular component libraries, and drive adoption across multiple products. Ideal candidates have 8+ years in web development, 2+ years in design-system architecture, and are proficient in React and TypeScript. Join a collaborative team that values craftsmanship and speed in a performance-friendly environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in building large-scale web applications.
• 2+ years focused on design-system architecture.
• Mastery of React and TypeScript.

Responsibilities

• Own design tokens, theming strategy, accessibility standards.
• Build modular, versioned component libraries across platforms.
• Create tooling to enhance prototyping and testing workflows.

Skills

Building large-scale web applications

Design-system architecture

React

TypeScript

Accessibility

Modern CSS methodologies

Front-end testing

Tools

Figma

Storybook

NextJS

Jest

Job description

DevRev

At DevRev, we’re building the future of work with Computer – your AI teammate.

Computer is not just another tool. It’s built on the belief that the future of work should be about genuine human connection and collaboration – not piling on more apps.
Computer is the best kind of teammate: it amplifies your strengths, takes repetition and frustration out of your day, and gives you more time and energy to do your best work.

How?

Easy: it’s the only platform capable of…
Complete data unification
Most AI products focus on either structured data (like CRM records and support tickets), or unstructured data (like documents and emails). Computer AirSync connects everything, unifying all your data sources (like Google Workspace, Jira, Notion) into one AI-ready source of truth: Computer Memory.

Powerful search, reasoning, and action
Once connected to all your tools and apps, Computer is embedded in your full business context. It can find and summarize, sure. Even more impressive: it offers employees insights, strategic and proactive suggestions, plus powerful agentic actions.

Extensions for your teams and customers
Computer doesn’t make you choose between new software and old. Its AI-native platform lets you extend existing tools with sophisticated apps and agents. So your teams – and your customers – can take action, seamlessly. These agents work alongside you: updating workflows, coordinating across teams, and syncing back to your systems.

This isn’t just software. Computer brings people back together, breaking down silos and ushering in the future of teamwork, through human‑AI collaboration. Stop managing software. Stop wasting time. Start solving bigger problems, building better products, and making your customers happier.

We call this Team Intelligence. It’s why DevRev exists.

Trusted by global companies across multiple industries, DevRev is backed by Khosla Ventures and Mayfield, with $150M+ raised. We are 650+ people, across eight global offices.

Senior Design System Engineer

Own the system that shapes every pixel of our AI‑native, data‑driven platform.

Why DevRev?

In just four years we have:

• Pushed browser limits with D3-powered visualizations and real-time dashboards.
• Open-sourced client-side analytics on DuckDB, bringing OLAP to the edge.
• Designed data-driven, AI-native UIs that feel fast, intelligent, and downright fun.
• Scaled & themeable design systems adopted across multiple products and platforms.
• Introduced micro-frontends that power independent, high-velocity feature teams—and let customers embed their own modules directly inside DevRev.
• Embedded deeply configurable, data-driven UIs—layouts, components, and visualizations that can be reshaped end-to-end via declarative configuration.

…and we’re just getting started. If you have a passion for craftsmanship, love building design systems that developers and designers adore, and thrive in a performance-obsessed culture, read on.

What You’ll Do

• Architect & evolve our design system: own design tokens, theming strategy, accessibility standards, and visual language across web, desktop, and mobile.
• Build modular, versioned component libraries: deliver React + Web Component packages that power both our core app and customer-embedded micro-frontends.
• Create world‑class tooling: advance Storybook, Chromatic, and Figma plugin workflows so every contributor can prototype, test, and ship quickly.
• Drive adoption & governance: author guidelines, run reviews, and partner with engineering & UX to ensure consistency at warp speed.
• Scale data-driven UI patterns: design configurable layouts and visualization primitives that render billions of rows without compromising Core Web Vitals.
• Coach & mentor: level up engineers and designers on system thinking, accessibility, and performance‑first development.

Tech Ecosystem You’ll Shape

Design Tokens · Figma API · Storybook · React · Web Components · TypeScript · Tailwind CSS · Vite · NextJS · Jest · Cypress · Playwright

What You Bring

• 8+ years building large-scale web applications, with 2+ years dedicated to design‑system architecture.
• Strong perspective on tokens, theming, and multi-brand support, demonstrated in production.
• Mastery of React (or equivalent) and TypeScript, with experience publishing component libraries to NPM or internal registries.
• Proven record of accessibility leadership (WCAG, ARIA, keyboard navigation, color contrast).
• Fluency in modern CSS methodologies (Tailwind, CSS‑in‑JS, CSS Modules) and front‑end testing (Jest, Testing Library, Cypress/Playwright).
• Strong communication skills—able to align product, design, and engineering around system conventions and trade‑offs.

Bonus Points

• OSS contributions to design systems or front‑end tooling.
• Experience writing Figma plugins or design-token pipelines.
• Expertise with micro‑frontend orchestration (Module Federation, Single‑SPA, etc).

How We Work

• Speed with craftsmanship: tight feedback loops, continuous delivery, rigorous peer reviews.
• Performance first: we treat Time-to‑Interactive, bundle size, and UX motion as top‑level product metrics.
• Inclusive, global team: collaborate with authentic engineers and designers across the US, India, and Europe.
• Ownership culture: you architect, you guide, you measure, you iterate.

Ready to own the design system that powers the future of product, support, and developer collaboration? Apply now or reach out directly—let’s talk tokens, theming, and next‑level DX.

Culture

The foundation of DevRev is its culture -- our commitment to those who are hungry, humble, honest, and who act with heart. Our vision is to help build the earth’s most customer‑centric companies. Our mission is to leverage design, data engineering, and machine intelligence to empower engineers to embrace their customers.

That is DevRev!