Design System Tech Lead

Payoneer Inc.; United States; Hybrid; USD 118,000 - 158,000; Full time

Job summary

Payoneer is seeking a Design System Tech Lead to guide the evolution of its Design System into a modern, scalable frontend platform that enables AI-assisted development. This role emphasizes platform ownership over feature work and focuses on consistent, high-quality UI across the company.

You will own architecture, tokens, theming, accessibility, and performance while partnering with product, frontend, platform, and DevOps teams to improve adoption and governance.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of frontend engineering experience.
• Strong experience building or leading a Design System, UI platform, or shared frontend infrastructure.
• Deep knowledge of React, component architecture, and scalable frontend patterns.
• Experience working in large, multi-team environments.
• Strong communication and leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the modernization and technical direction of the Design System.
• Own component architecture, design tokens, theming, accessibility, and performance.
• Improve developer and designer adoption by reducing friction and improving documentation.
• Make the Design System machine-readable and tool-friendly for automation and AI-assisted development.
• Define quality standards, testing strategy, and governance for Design System changes.
• Work closely with product design, frontend teams, platform, and DevOps partners.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to frontend platform best practices.

Skills

Design system leadership

Frontend engineering

React

Large multi-team environments

Communication & leadership

Tools

Design tokens

Figma integrations

CI/CD tooling

Job description

About Payoneer

Founded in 2005, Payoneer is the global financial platform that removes friction from doing business across borders, with a mission to connect the world’s underserved businesses to a rising global economy. We’re a community with over 2,500 colleagues all over the world, working to serve customers, and partners in over 190 countries and territories.

By taking the complexity out of the financial workflows–including everything from global payments and compliance to multi-currency and workforce management, to providing working capital and business intelligence–we give businesses the tools they need to work efficiently worldwide and grow with confidence.

Team

Application Foundations (Frontend Platform)

Location

Israel / Hybrid

Full-time

Role summary

We are looking for a Design System Tech Lead to lead the evolution of Payoneer’s Design System into a modern, scalable, and AI‑ready frontend platform.

This role focuses on platform ownership, not feature development. You will be responsible for improving how designers, developers, and tooling (including AI tools) build consistent, high‑quality user interfaces across the company.

What you’ll do

• Lead the modernization and technical direction of the Design System.
• Own component architecture, design tokens, theming, accessibility, and performance.
• Improve developer and designer adoption by reducing friction, improving documentation, and simplifying upgrades.
• Make the Design System machine‑readable and tool‑friendly, enabling automation and AI‑assisted development.
• Define quality standards, testing strategy, and governance for Design System changes.
• Work closely with product design, frontend teams, platform, and DevOps partners.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to frontend platform best practices.

Who you are

Requirements

• 7+ years of frontend engineering experience.
• Strong experience building or leading a Design System, UI platform, or shared frontend infrastructure.
• Deep knowledge of React, component architecture, and scalable frontend patterns.
• Experience working in large, multi‑team environments.
• Strong communication and leadership skills.

What Could Set You Apart

• Experience with design tokens, Figma integrations, or schema‑driven UI systems.
• Exposure to DevEx, CI/CD, or automation tooling.
• Interest or experience in AI‑assisted development.

Why Join

• Own a core platform used across dozens of products.
• Influence developer velocity, UX consistency, and future AI adoption.
• Work on long‑term infrastructure, not short‑lived features.
• Be part of a team committed to continuous improvement, learning, and building inclusive, scalable systems

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The Payoneer Ways of Working

Act as our customer’s partner on the inside

Learning what they need and creating what will help them go further.

Do it. Own it.

Being fearlessly accountable in everything we do.

Continuously improve

Always striving for a higher standard than our last.

Build each other up

Helping each other grow, as professionals and people.

We are committed to providing a diverse and inclusive workplace. Payoneer is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment no matter your race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you require reasonable accommodation at any stage of the hiring process, please speak to the recruiter managing the role for any adjustments. Decisions about requests for reasonable accommodation are made on a case‑by‑case basis.