Senior Staff Engineer, Design Systems

The role

The Senior Staff Engineer leads technical architecture and implementation strategy for the next-generation Design System. This person builds reusable component libraries and design tokens to enable consistent experiences across products and platforms.

What you will do

• Architect and build technical foundations of the next-generation Design System.
• Partner with Design, Product, and Engineering leads to align technical strategy.
• Build relationships with stakeholders to identify dependencies and communicate technical decisions.
• Lead cross-team technical discussions and drive Design System adoption.
• Collaborate with Product Designers to translate design standards into implementations.
• Establish engineering standards, implementation patterns, and code quality practices.
• Develop and maintain design system infrastructure, repositories, and documentation.
• Explore and implement AI-assisted development workflows.
• Provide technical mentorship, architectural guidance, and code review support.
• Help establish and lead technical governance processes.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant work experience in Front-end Developer, UI Engineer, Design Technologist, or Design engineer roles.
• Fluent in Modern React, TypeScript, and JavaScript.
• Fluent in Semantic HTML, CSS, and responsive design.
• Fluent in Design systems architecture, reusable UI components, and design tokens.
• Fluent in Figma for design-to-code workflows.
• Fluent in Git and collaborative software development.
• Fluent in Frontend build tools, component packaging, and testing.
• Fluent in Web accessibility standards (WCAG) and accessible interaction patterns.
• Fluent in Scalable frontend architecture across multiple applications and technology stacks.
• Body of work demonstrating experience building polished user interfaces, responsive layouts, and web apps.
• At least some examples built with React.
• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional technical initiatives and managing stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Experience with design in education technology or a related field
• Storybook or similar component documentation and development tools
• Familiarity with CSS custom properties, design tokens, and token-driven styling architectures
• Familiarity with scalable CSS methodologies
• Familiarity with contract-based design systems and component contracts
• Redux and state management
• Building, publishing and maintaining Figma UI component libraries
• Building AI skills and modern token-driven design systems

Before you apply

• A background check will be required.
• You may be required to provide additional documentation, such as proof of vaccination, or submit to enhanced background screening, such as fingerprinting.

About the company

Amplify helps teachers bring delight and rigor to students by building inspiring teaching and learning experiences. The Amplify Classroom platform combines curriculum, assessment, and supplemental learning into one instructional system.