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Senior Design System Engineer

Datamatics Technologies
Riyadh, KSA
Full-time
Mid-Senior
Onsite
Discovered 1 weeks ago
Design systemsFront-end engineeringJavaScriptTypeScriptHTML5CSS3
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Role Overview

The Senior Design System Engineer will lead the development, implementation, and governance of an enterprise design system.

The role bridges design and engineering to support consistency, scalability, accessibility, and reusability across digital products and platforms.

Experience and Employment

  • The role requires 5-10 years of experience.
  • Employment type is full-time.

Location

  • The source lists the location as Saudi Arabia.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, build, maintain, and evolve a scalable design system and reusable component library.
  • Collaborate with product designers, UX researchers, product managers, and engineering teams.
  • Develop high-quality, accessible, responsive, and reusable UI components.
  • Define and enforce design system standards, guidelines, and best practices.
  • Establish governance processes to ensure design consistency across products.
  • Translate design tokens, patterns, and specifications into production-ready code.
  • Drive adoption of the design system across multiple teams and business units.
  • Ensure compliance with WCAG accessibility standards and responsive design principles.
  • Monitor system performance, scalability, and usability improvements.
  • Mentor junior engineers and provide technical leadership for front-end architecture decisions.

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related field.
  • 5-10 years of experience in front-end engineering, UI engineering, or design system development.
  • Strong expertise in JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3, and modern front-end frameworks.
  • Hands-on experience with React and component-based architecture.
  • Experience building and maintaining enterprise-scale design systems.
  • Strong understanding of design tokens, Atomic Design, and component libraries.
  • Experience with Storybook, Figma, and design-to-development workflows.
  • Knowledge of WCAG 2.1 accessibility standards and responsive design principles.
  • Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and Agile development methodologies.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with design system governance and adoption strategies.
  • Knowledge of micro-frontends and scalable UI architectures.
  • Experience integrating design systems across web and mobile platforms.
  • Familiarity with testing frameworks such as Jest, Cypress, or Playwright.
  • Experience working in large enterprise or product-based environments.

Key Skills

  • Design systems, React.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, Storybook, Figma, design tokens, component libraries, and UI architecture.
  • Front-end development, accessibility, HTML5, CSS3, Agile and Scrum, CI/CD, and Git.

Nice to Have

Experience with Angular or Vue.js.

Knowledge of Tailwind CSS or Material UI.

Experience with enterprise digital transformation initiatives.

Contributions to open-source design systems or component libraries.

Success Measures

Increased design system adoption across teams.

Improved UI consistency and development efficiency.

Reduced design and development duplication.

Enhanced accessibility compliance and user experience.

Faster delivery of digital products through reusable components.

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