Staff Design Engineer/Technical Lead, Design Systems

1 Day ago • All levels • $141,600 PA - $254,900 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

The Staff Design Engineer/Technical Lead will be responsible for building and maintaining a React design system library and design token architecture. This includes working with product teams to evolve both design and engineering processes. The role involves ensuring the system's availability, stability, and scalability, making important decisions, driving vision and strategy, and encouraging adoption. Responsibilities include building tools, conducting research, and coaching. Experience in CSS architecture, React, Typescript, SCSS, CSS Modules, Style Dictionary, and Storybook is required. Experience in UI component testing, collaboration with designers, and build/test/release methods is also needed.
Must have:
  • Expertise in design system concepts for web technologies
  • Deep experience in CSS architecture and practices
  • Deep experience with React, Typescript, SCSS, CSS Modules, etc.
  • Solid knowledge of the Node.js ecosystem
  • Experience with UI component testing for accessibility standards
  • Experience with design system with federated contributions
  • Experience working closely with designers
Good to have:
  • Experience working in native iOS and Android development environments

Job Details

THE TEAM

Are you passionate about crafting best-in-class, scalable user interfaces, mentoring others in development best practices, and transforming design and engineering outputs and processes to be more efficient and consistent? Eventbrite is seeking a Staff Design Engineer/Technical Lead to join the Marmalade Design System team. Marmalade is how we jam together at Eventbrite,  providing Britelings with tools, infrastructure, and services that enable consistent, fully accessible user experiences across a range of products.

THE ROLE

Your role will be to help build and maintain our React design system library and our brand new design token architecture as we navigate large changes to our design language and brand in 2025 and beyond. Team members are also expected to participate in the overall Marmalade ecosystem to evolve both design and engineering by working directly with product teams. This includes doing outreach about Marmalade, discovering features and improvements, and validating system quality through visual and cross-platform testing. Overall, you will have direct ownership and play a key role in ensuring Marmalade is available for consumers in a timely, stable, and scalable way.

YOU WILL

  • Build cool things! Our team works on a diverse and dynamic toolset that solves real problems for designers and engineers, both within the Marmalade system and in partnership with Eventbrite’s product teams.
  • Have meaningful ownership. You’ll make important decisions about how we build and grow and have a strong say in what we build next. Your ability to find, assess, and develop new opportunities will be essential to our team.
  • Lead. Help drive vision and strategy for the design system by conducting research with our internal users on a quarterly basis to influence team roadmaps and project prioritization and coaching down, across and up the organization to encourage adoption of the system and continued investment.

THE SKILLSET

  • Keen appreciation for design excellence and quality of design implementation in code
  • Expertise in the concepts behind design systems and how they are being applied in modern product development, especially as this relates to web technologies
  • Deep experience in CSS architecture and practices, such as pre and post-processors, cross-browser concerns, layout, current and upcoming standards, responsive design, and motion and animation. This must include knowledge of web accessibility, WAI standards, and WA testing
  • Deep experience with the following key technologies: React, Typescript, SCSS, CSS Modules, Style Dictionary, and Storybook
  • Solid knowledge of the Node.js ecosystem, especially practices for npm package development, versioning, and publishing
  • Experience implementing manual and/or automated testing for UI components to guarantee they meet design, localization and accessibility standards for a diverse, global audience (WCAG, a11Y, I18N, I10N)
  • Experience working on a fast-paced, multi-person design system with federated contributions and governance, with a focus on git and GitHub contribution workflow and in-depth peer code review
  • Experience working closely with designers, including a strong understanding of how to convert a design into code
  • Experience enhancing design and engineering collaboration through tools and processes, such as developing custom Figma plugins or similar solutions
  • Hands-on experience with build, test, and release methods; such as compilers, linting (Eslint), CI/CD tooling, software testing and validation techniques (Jest, React Testing Library, Chromatic, Rollup), and modern dev-ops practices
  • A pragmatic, collaborative, and open-minded outlook, and a high degree of comfort working in an environment with complex demands from multiple stakeholders.

BONUS POINTS FOR

  • Experience working in native iOS and Android development environments 

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