Senior Design Engineer - Design System & Platform UI

The role

You will research, build, and maintain accessible React components and their APIs. You will also work on library enhancements, maintain shared infrastructure, drive adoption, and build an AI-assisted layer.

What you will do

• Research, build, and maintain accessible React components and their APIs
• Work on library enhancements and developer experience improvements
• Enable complex migrations with codemods and semantic versioning
• Maintain Storybook, unit, interaction E2E and visual regression tests, accessibility gates, and a release process
• Drive adoption through documentation, usage guidelines, migration guides, issue intake, and code review
• Build the AI-assisted layer including Figma-to-code and component scaffolding

Required qualifications

• 6+ years of frontend engineering
• Built or maintained a production design system that multiple teams use
• Deep knowledge of React, TypeScript, semantic HTML, and CSS architecture at scale
• Experience with component API design
• Experience with headless primitives such as React Aria, Ark UI or Radix
• Working knowledge of WCAG 2.x and WAI-ARIA
• Experience with design-token architecture and tools
• Figma variables sync
• Fluent in Figma
• Use AI coding tools

Nice to have

• Design system or UI/UX platform teams at developer tools, B2B SaaS, or cloud platforms
• Frontend platform roles with a shared UI library and multi-team consumers

Benefits

• Flexible work environment
• Employer contributions towards healthcare
• Stock options
• Flexible time off in the US, generous entitlement in other countries
• USD$500 Home office setup if you’re a remote employee
• Opportunities to engage with colleagues at company-wide offsites

About the company

ClickHouse is a globally distributed company that is remote-friendly and operates in over 25 countries.