Senior Design System Engineer - Frontend Architect (Austin)

American Airlines; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 28,000 - 41,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Job summary

American Airlines is seeking a Senior Design System Engineer in Austin, TX to lead the design system architecture and drive frontend direction across teams. You will craft reusable UI components, contribute to tokens and patterns, and ensure consistency across the product line.

The role emphasizes collaboration with engineering and design stakeholders, advancing documentation, testing, and deployment pipelines to deliver scalable, reliable experiences for customers and internal users.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field.
• 2+ years of frontend development experience with modern web frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and advance the architecture of design system code artifacts, including reliability improvements, self-service documentation, end-to-end testing, and delivery pipelines.
• Develop design tokens and patterns based on frontend best practices, design principles, reusability and consistency.
• Own the vision for design system development and frontend direction across the company.
• Support engineers in adopting and contributing to the design system, measuring adoption and impact.
• Collaborate with engineering and design leads to scale the design system, ensure consistency and reduce technical debt.

Skills

Frontend development

Design systems

UI components

Lit

Tailwind

GitHub

Web Parts

Education

Bachelor Degree

Tools

Lit

Tailwind

Web Parts

HTML/CSS/JavaScript

Job description

American Airlines is seeking a Senior Design System Engineer in Austin, TX to lead the design system architecture and drive frontend direction across teams. You will craft reusable UI components, contribute to tokens and patterns, and ensure consistency across the product line.

The role emphasizes collaboration with engineering and design stakeholders, advancing documentation, testing, and deployment pipelines to deliver scalable, reliable experiences for customers and internal users.