Senior Frontend Engineer, Design Systems at Deputy, sitting within the design function. Owns translating design into code and shaping the design system to power AI-driven design-to-code workflows. Also responsible for designer enablement, creating workflows so designers can rapidly prototype.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain production-ready UI components reflecting design intent
- Use AI tools to accelerate implementation, iteration and refinement of components
- Validate AI-generated outputs for quality, accessibility and consistency
- Shape the design system (tokens, components, patterns) to be machine-readable and AI-friendly
- Contribute to workflows enabling design-to-code generation using AI, including component metadata
- Identify opportunities where AI can reduce manual effort in component creation and maintenance
- Act as a core member of the design team, participating in critiques and explorations
- Provide technical perspective during design to ensure outputs are scalable and implementable
- Help designers understand how their work can support AI-driven development
- Improve integration between design tools (e.g. Figma) and engineering outputs
- Use AI to generate documentation, specs and component usage guidelines
- Explore AI-assisted approaches to testing (visual regression, accessibility) and validation
- Prototype and experiment with new AI-driven workflows for design systems
- Ensure high fidelity between design and implementation
- Maintain accessibility and inclusive design standards across components
- Contribute to shared standards improving system consistency across design and code
- Create documentation and examples serving both designers and engineers
- Support teams in using the design system effectively
- Advocate for workflows that improve speed without compromising quality
What we're looking for
- ~4–6 years of experience in front-end engineering, design engineering or design systems
- Strong proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript
- Experience building UI components in modern frameworks (Vue, React, etc.)
- Strong design sensibility and attention to detail
- Experience working closely with design tools (e.g. Figma, tokens, variants)
- Experience or strong interest in AI-assisted design and development workflows
- Understanding of accessibility and inclusive design practices
- Familiarity with design tokens and system architecture across design and code
- Ability to operate fluently between design and engineering contexts
Good to know
- Hybrid working arrangement (#LI-Hybrid)