Design System Engineer - AI-Enabled, Accessible Components

Travelbyinvestec; Sandton; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Investec Sandton is seeking a Design System Engineer to support and evolve a global shared digital infrastructure within the Client Experience Technology division. The role focuses on building reusable components, design tokens and patterns, along with documenting and tooling for designers, engineers and AI agents.

You will contribute to Angular modernisation efforts, governance, and scalable adoption across teams, while exploring AI-enabled workflows to enhance delivery and consistency.

Qualifications

• Experience building and evolving design systems or component libraries.
• Ability to design component APIs and documentation for varied consumers.
• Knowledge of accessibility, tokens, testing, CI/CD and DX.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain accessible, reusable components, patterns and design tokens.
• Create documentation and tooling for designers, engineers and AI agents.
• Explore AI to improve design-system discovery, adoption and QA.
• Help teams move from intent to production while preserving consistency.
• Collaborate with design and engineering to drive adoption and evolve the system.

Skills

HTML/CSS/JS

React/React Native/Angular

Design systems

Accessibility

Design tokens

Documentation

AI tools (Copilot)

Tools

Storybook

Zeroheight

Figma

Job description

Investec Sandton is seeking a Design System Engineer to support and evolve a global shared digital infrastructure within the Client Experience Technology division. The role focuses on building reusable components, design tokens and patterns, along with documenting and tooling for designers, engineers and AI agents.

You will contribute to Angular modernisation efforts, governance, and scalable adoption across teams, while exploring AI-enabled workflows to enhance delivery and consistency.