Principal UI/Design Systems Engineer (React/TS)

Elastic; Portugal; Remote; EUR 67,000 - 106,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Flexible locations

Generous vacation days

Job summary

Elastic is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead the Global UX engineering team, steward the EUI design system and React component library, and ensure accessible, scalable UI across products.

You will mentor engineers, set architectural direction, collaborate with design leadership, and drive a culture of quality, performance, and thoughtful AI-enabled tooling in a distributed, remote-friendly environment.

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on expertise building React/TypeScript component libraries.
• Strong leadership and decision-making across teams.
• Experience designing composable component APIs and theming.
• Accessibility-first mindset.
• Experience managing a widely-used library lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for the Global UX engineering team and EUI.
• Set architecture direction for component APIs, theming, and accessibility.
• Mentor engineers and drive adoption of the design system across teams.
• Collaborate with design leadership to translate design intent into robust components.
• Lead migration and deprecation strategies with a focus on quality and reliability.

Skills

React

TypeScript

Design systems

Technical leadership

Mentoring

Accessibility

Distributed team

Open source

Tools

Design system tooling

Job description

Elastic is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead the Global UX engineering team, steward the EUI design system and React component library, and ensure accessible, scalable UI across products.

You will mentor engineers, set architectural direction, collaborate with design leadership, and drive a culture of quality, performance, and thoughtful AI-enabled tooling in a distributed, remote-friendly environment.