Senior Design Systems Engineer (Web)

Turo; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 156,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Retirement match

Learning & Development stipend

Travel credit

Cell phone stipend

Paid time off

Parental leave

In‑office lunch & snacks

Job summary

Turo is seeking a Senior Design Systems Engineer (Web) to help architect, build, document, and maintain Pedal—the cross‑platform design system for Web, iOS, and Android. You will own the Pedal web repo, automate release workflows, and lead AI‑assisted workflows across Product, Design, and Engineering.

You will collaborate with product teams, evangelize best practices, and mentor engineers and designers. This hybrid role requires in‑office presence three days a week in San Francisco.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 4+ years of professional front‑end software engineering experience.
• 2+ years in Design Systems on a dedicated team.
• Experience building accessible, composable components across platforms.
• Experience guiding DS designers with engineering requirements and prototyping.
• Hands‑on experience migrating components into consuming apps.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, document, and maintain design system foundations and components for Web with cross‑platform consistency.
• Develop and maintain automations for release workflows, token pipelines, asset updates, docs, testing, and adoption metrics.
• Own the Pedal web repo: publish packages, update dependencies, maintain CI and release processes.
• Lead AI‑assisted systems and workflows to support product development.
• Collaborate on technical and organizational decisions to align tools, techniques, and governance.
• Build relationships with product teams to encourage system contribution.
• Evangelize, coach, and educate contributing designers and engineers.
• Provide customer support and education for system users.
• Advise, coach, and mentor other engineers; participate in hiring.

Skills

HTML

CSS

CSS-in-JS

TypeScript

React

Git

GitHub

Storybook

Chromatic

Figma

SwiftUI

Jetpack Compose

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

N/A

Job description

About the team We’re looking for a Senior Design Systems Engineer (Web) to join Turo’s Design Systems team. You’ll help us architect, build, document, and maintain Pedal, our cross-platform system for iOS, Android, and Web. This role combines engineering and enablement. You’ll build foundations and components for Web, develop automation for scale, and help lead our team’s efforts to roll out AI-assisted workflows across Product, Design, and Engineering. You’ll also build relationships, process, tooling, and documentation to support an effective and well managed contribution model.

What you will do

• Architect, build, document, and maintain design system foundations and components for Web, with an eye toward cross‑platform consistency.
• Develop and maintain automations for release workflows, token pipelines, asset updates, documentation, testing, and adoption measurement.
• Own the Pedal web repo: publish packages, merge dependency updates, maintain CI pipelines, GitHub Actions, and release processes.
• Lead development of AI‑assisted systems and workflows that support product development.
• Collaborate on both technical implementation and organizational decision‑making to help the team align on tools, techniques, and governance.
• Build relationships with product teams that support and encourage system contribution.
• Evangelize, coach, and educate contributing designers and engineers.
• Provide customer support and education for system users.
• Advise, coach, and mentor other engineers.
• Participate in the hiring process.
• Other duties as assigned.

Your profile

Languages & Frameworks

• Fluent in HTML, CSS, CSS‑in‑JS, TypeScript, React, Git, GitHub.
• Proficient with Storybook and Chromatic.
• Familiar with Figma, SwiftUI, Jetpack Compose.

AI & Automation

• 1+ years of regular use of LLMs and related tools in your engineering workflow.
• Experience contributing to AI infrastructure for your organization.
• You’ve helped teams select tooling and develop governance for shared context.

Quality

• Skilled at developing and maintaining automated test coverage that provides high confidence with minimal friction.
• Accessibility is a first‑order concern in your work, not an afterthought.
• Expertise developing responsive, flexible components that support internationalization, user preference, and the unexpected.
• Deep understanding of composition in declarative component frameworks.

Communication & Collaboration

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, especially when explaining complex technical concepts to non‑technical audiences.
• Experience developing projects start‑to‑finish in close, genuine collaboration with designers and engineers across multiple platforms. Not parallel work, integrated work.
• Strong organizational skills, and an established practice to manage focus and maintain attention to detail, especially through long, complex projects with shifting requirements.
• Track record of delivering projects on time.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 4+ years of professional experience as a front‑end software engineer, ideally with experience on cross‑functional product teams.
• 2+ of those years focused on Design Systems work within a dedicated Design Systems team.
• Experience collaborating with designers, DS engineers, and system users during development of accessible, composable components with interfaces aligned across design and other supported platforms.
• Experience guiding DS designers by providing engineering platform requirements, accessibility requirements, implementation examples from other systems, and exploratory code prototyping.
• Hands‑on experience migrating new components or breaking changes into a consuming application.

Bonus

• Experience with contribution models. You’ve worked at a company where product teams actively contribute to a shared design system, and you’ve helped make that work well.
• Experience with LLM context engineering.
• Previous experience in service industries, agencies, or other customer‑focused environments.

We value invention, pragmatism, hustle, and empathy. We exist to make our product development teams more effective.

For this role, the target base salary range in SanFrancisco is $156,000-$195,000 annually. This role is also eligible for equity and benefits. In general, our ranges reflect the market‑based target for new hire salaries based on the level and location of the role. Within the range, individual pay is determined by objective factors assessed during the application and interview process, such as job‑related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Turo highly values having employees working in‑office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. This role will be in‑office on a hybrid schedule — Turists will be expected to work in the office 3 days per week on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursday. Turo considers working in the office at least 3 days per week to be an essential function of this hybrid role.

Benefits

• Competitive salary, equity, benefits, and perks for all full‑time employees.
• Employer‑paid medical, dental, and vision insurance (Country specific).
• Retirement employer match.
• Learning & Development stipend to invest in your professional development.
• Turo host matching program.
• Turo travel credit.
• Cell phone and internet stipend.
• Paid time off to relax and recharge.
• Paid holidays, volunteer time off, and parental leave.
• For those who are in the office full‑time or hybrid we have in‑office lunch, office snacks, and fun activities.

We are committed to building a diverse team. If you are from a background that’s underrepresented in tech, we’d love to meet you. Aside from an award winning work environment and the opportunity to be part of the world’s largest car sharing marketplace, we are also growing the team quickly — join us! Even if you don’t meet every qualification, we are looking for people with enthusiasm for what we do and we will consider you for this and other possibilities.

About Turo

Turo is the world’s largest car sharing marketplace where you can book the perfect car for wherever you’re going from a vibrant community of trusted hosts across the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and France. Whether you’re flying in from afar or looking for a car down the street, searching for a rugged truck or something smooth and swanky, Turo puts you in the driver’s seat of an extraordinary selection of cars shared by local hosts. Discover Turo at https://turo.com, the App Store, and Google Play, and check out our blog, Field Notes. Read more about the Turo culture according to Turo CEO, Andre Haddad. Turo is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a participant in the U.S. Federal E-Verify program. Women, minorities, individuals with disabilities and protected veterans are encouraged to apply. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. Turo will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, as applicable. We welcome candidates with physical, mental, and/or neurological disabilities. If you require assistance applying for an open position, or need accommodation during the recruiting process due to a disability, please submit a request to People Operations by emailing [e-mail].