Overview:

As a Design System Front-End Developer, you will play a vital role in crafting and evolving our design system, ensuring a consistent, accessible, and scalable user interface across all products. You’ll work at the intersection of design and engineering, building high-quality UI components that enable fast and consistent development across teams. This role offers the opportunity to shape user experiences and front-end architecture, while collaborating with designers, engineers, and stakeholders to ensure usability, scalability, and visual excellence. You’ll contribute to a frontend toolkit used across the company and help lead internal best practices for UI development.

Your responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain efficient, reusable, and scalable front-end components.

• Develop responsive and accessible web applications using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and TypeScript.

• Collaborate closely with designers to ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs.

• Contribute to and evolve the internal design system used by multiple teams.

• Work with backend engineers to integrate RESTful APIs and ensure seamless UI/backend communication.

• Advocate for accessibility standards (WCAG) and implement them across UI components.

• Lead internal initiatives and discussions around design consistency and developer experience.

• Optimize applications for speed, usability, and maintainability.

• Implement motion design and animations to enhance user experience where appropriate.

• Stay up to date with emerging front-end technologies, tools, and practices.

• Support documentation and onboarding of other developers using the design system.
  

Your profile:

• Strong proficiency in CSS, HTML, and modern JavaScript (ES6+)

• Expertise in at least one modern frontend framework (React, Vue, Svelte, Angular)

• Proven experience building or maintaining design systems or scalable component libraries

• Familiarity with tools such as Figma or similar design collaboration platforms

• Comfortable implementing accessibility standards (WCAG) and responsive design

• Experience with front-end tooling: Nx, Vite, ESLint, Prettier, Playwright, Jest/Vitest, Testing Library

• Solid understanding of integrating frontend applications with RESTful APIs

• Attention to visual and interaction detail, with a strong sense of consistency

• Comfortable with animation and motion design concepts in web development

• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with experience working in cross-functional teams

• Interest in Generative AI and how intuitive UI can enable human-AI collaboration

• Experience working on high-traffic web applications is a plus
  

What you can expect from us:

• Be part of an AI revolution!

• 30 days of paid vacation

• Access to a variety of fitness & wellness offerings via Wellhub

• Mental health support through nilo.health

• Substantially subsidized company pension plan for your future security

• Subsidized Germany-wide transportation ticket

• Budget for additional technical equipment

• Flexible working hours and a hybrid working model for better work-life balance

• Virtual Stock Option Plan