UX Engineer: Design Systems & Front-End Specialist

Sun Life Malaysia Assurance Berhad; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Sun Life Malaysia Assurance Berhad is seeking a front-end engineer to own the Sun Life Helios design system for local digital channels. You will translate approved designs into production-ready components, enabling full stack teams to deliver consistent web and mobile experiences.

You will build reusable UI libraries, ensure accessibility and responsive layouts, and collaborate with designers and developers to maintain design fidelity from Figma to production.

Qualifications

• Frontend engineering using React or an equivalent framework.
• Experience building reusable component libraries and documenting them in Storybook.
• Figma inspection and design-system implementation.
• Responsive web and mobile interface development.
• Accessibility standards, semantic markup and keyboard/assistive-technology support.
• Frontend automated testing, visual regression testing, version control and code review.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, interaction design or related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• At least 4 years of front-end or UX engineering delivering production digital applications.

Responsibilities

• Build, test and maintain reusable UI components aligned with the Sun Life Helios design system and local adaptations.
• Translate Figma designs into responsive, accessible front-end experiences for web and mobile channels.
• Create code-based prototypes to validate interaction behaviour and technical feasibility.
• Collaborate with product designers and full stack developers to define component contracts and handover standards.
• Review internal and vendor front-end code and contribute approved components to shared design-system libraries.

Skills

React

Front-end engineering

Accessibility

Responsive design

Testing

Version control

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Storybook

Design tokens

Figma

Job description

Sun Life Malaysia Assurance Berhad is seeking a front-end engineer to own the Sun Life Helios design system for local digital channels. You will translate approved designs into production-ready components, enabling full stack teams to deliver consistent web and mobile experiences.

You will build reusable UI libraries, ensure accessibility and responsive layouts, and collaborate with designers and developers to maintain design fidelity from Figma to production.