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

Doctolib; Paris (TX); Hybrid; USD 133,000 - 199,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free comprehensive health insurance

25 days of paid vacation

Lunch vouchers

Relocation support

AI tooling access

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Doctolib is seeking an Engineering Manager for Oxygen, Doctolib's design system. You will lead the engineering delivery, define the team's vision with product, and ensure accessibility, quality, and scalability across web and mobile interfaces.

You'll coach engineers, collaborate with designers and product managers, and drive an AI‑first approach to tooling and workflows. Your work will shape a consistent user experience for patients and health professionals across Europe.

Qualifications

• Have at least 8+ years of software engineering experience, combined with 2-3+ years of management experience.
• Experience leading, coaching, and developing engineers, fostering a strong engineering culture.
• Understanding the value of design systems and experience creating or maintaining scalable component libraries.
• Strong knowledge of UI engineering principles and building high-quality interfaces across web and mobile.
• Able to adapt quickly to change and solve problems to achieve meaningful outcomes.
• Commitment to accessibility and WCAG-aligned inclusive UX.
• English proficiency for daily team interactions; German or French is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Define your team's vision, strategy, and roadmap with the Product partner.
• Lead the technical design, development, and evolution of Oxygen for web and mobile.
• Champion an AI-first approach to UI tooling and workflows.
• Establish and promote UI and accessibility engineering best practices across the org.
• Drive technical alignment across engineering teams and ensure seamless integration.
• Coach, mentor, and develop engineers to foster ownership and excellence.

Skills

Software engineering

Engineering leadership

Design systems

UI engineering

Accessibility (WCAG)

AI tooling

Coaching & mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

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

If you don’t meet all the requirements below but believe this opportunity matches your expectations and experience, we still encourage you to apply!

You could be our next teammate if you:

• 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 or a creative class

• 50% reimbursement of your public transport subscription

• ParentCare Program: Enjoy full salary coverage (100%) during your first month of birth leave and 75% during the second, covered by Doctolib

• Enrollment in Doctolib's long-term employee value sharing plan called DoctoGrowth

• For caregivers and workers with disabilities, a package including an adaptation of the remote policy, extra days off for medical reasons, and psychological support

• Relocation support in case of international mobility

• Access to the best AI tools for coding, development and dedicated training

The interview process

• Recruiter Interview

• System Design interview

• Behavioral Interview

• EM Case study Interview

• Reference Check

• Offer!

Job details

• Permanent Position

• Full time

• Location: Levallois or Berlin or Nantes

• Start Date: As soon as possible

• Remote Policy: Hybrid

If you would like to find out more about tech life at Doctolib, feel free to read our latest Medium blog articles!

At Doctolib, we believe in improving access to healthcare for everyone - regardless of where you come from, what you look like. This translates into our recruitment process: Doctolib is an equal opportunity employer. We don't just accept diversity at Doctolib, we respect and celebrate it!

The more diverse ideas are heard, the more our product will truly improve healthcare for all. You are welcome to apply to Doctolib, regardless of your gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, ethnicity, disability, or place of origin. If you have a disability, let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process smoother for you!

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