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