Senior Manager, Design Systems Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Tennessee.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the @verity/ui component library as a versioned package developed using accessible headless primitives and design tokens.

• Develop and sustain the @verity/tokens pipeline, transforming DTCG design tokens into Style Dictionary, CSS custom properties, and typed outputs.

• Establish code-to-Figma token workflows utilizing Figma Variables, staging files, and review methodologies.

• Generate Code Connect mappings to enable Figma Dev Mode and coding agents to produce authentic @verity/ui components.

• Outline the AI-ready system interface, encompassing MCP context, component manifests, registries, repository guidance, and agent evaluation workflows.

• Enhance CI quality gates for accessibility, visual regression, application-level regression, linting, and code ownership.

• Oversee releases using Changesets, semantic versioning, API contract validations, and migration-ready codemods.

• Collaborate with designers and product teams on Figma conventions, fostering adoption, governance, promotion, and deprecation processes.

• Construct Verity Canvas, a code-centric design system tailored for healthcare software.

• Assist in aligning the actual codebase with the Figma library during the migration from Angular to React.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5+ years of experience in developing front-end systems, design systems, or component libraries using React and TypeScript.

• Proven experience in designing typed component APIs and delivering a design system as a published package utilized by other teams.

• Practical experience with Figma Dev Mode, variables, and Code Connect, or comparable design-to-code workflows.

• Experience in constructing design token pipelines using DTCG formats and tools like Style Dictionary or Tokens Studio.

• In-depth knowledge of accessibility best practices, including ARIA, keyboard interaction, focus management, and automated checks such as axe.

• Familiarity with Storybook, visual regression testing, CI/CD, modern Git workflows, and package management within monorepos.

• Preferred: experience with Base UI, Radix, React Aria, Ariakit, or similar headless primitive libraries.

• Preferred: experience with pnpm workspaces, Turborepo, Changesets, semver, API Extractor, or type-aware codemods.

• Preferred: experience in AI-native development workflows, MCP tooling, coding agents, registries, or agent evaluation harnesses.

• Preferred: experience in transferring tokens from code to Figma or utilizing the Figma Variables REST API.

• Preferred: experience in healthcare, regulated environments, or products where accessibility and precision are critical.

• For remote work, a cable broadband or fiber optic internet service with a minimum of 10Mbps download and 5Mbps upload speed is required.

🏝️ Benefits

• Occasional or permanent remote work allowed.

• Internet service requirement for remote work: cable broadband or fiber optic service with a minimum of 10Mbps download and 5Mbps upload.

• Equal employment opportunity protections offered.

• Reasonable accommodations available for the online application process.

• Tobacco-free workplace policy in effect.