Senior Design System Engineer - Frontend & Accessibility

American Airlines; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 28,000 - 41,000; Full time

Job summary

American Airlines in Phoenix, AZ seeks a Senior Design System Engineer to advance our design system, shape frontend architecture, and drive scalable, accessible UI across products.

You will collaborate with product, design and engineering teams to implement components, establish standards, and improve performance, accessibility and consistency at scale.

The role requires a Bachelor's degree and 2+ years of frontend experience; we offer competitive compensation, benefits and growth opportunities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• Strong frontend fundamentals: HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
• Experience designing scalable design systems is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and advance the engineering of design system codebases with tests and pipelines.
• Develop design tokens and component patterns for frontend reuse.
• Own the vision for design system expansion across the project.
• Support engineers by gathering needs and measuring adoption.
• Collaborate with UI/UX and platform teams to improve consistency and accessibility.
• Mentor teams on accessibility WCAG 2.0 AA compliance.

Skills

HTML

CSS

JavaScript

Web Parts

Lit

Tailwind

Storybook

GitHub

WCAG 2.0 AA

Education

Bachelor Degree

Tools

Storybook

GitHub

Lit

Job description

American Airlines in Phoenix, AZ seeks a Senior Design System Engineer to advance our design system, shape frontend architecture, and drive scalable, accessible UI across products.

You will collaborate with product, design and engineering teams to implement components, establish standards, and improve performance, accessibility and consistency at scale.

The role requires a Bachelor's degree and 2+ years of frontend experience; we offer competitive compensation, benefits and growth opportunities.