Staff Frontend Engineer – Design Systems

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Denmark, +6 more countries.

📋 Description

• Take ownership and enhance Telescope, Pleo’s design system, which includes components, patterns, guidelines, and tooling.

• Empower product teams to deliver faster with a consistent user interface, accessibility, and quality.

• Collaborate with Design and Engineering to foster adoption and enhance contribution experiences.

• Maintain shared foundations such as tokens, components, documentation, and best practices.

• Establish the technical direction for architecture, component standards, release practices, and quality benchmarks.

• Advance and innovate the contribution model and team interaction processes.

• Manage request triage, prioritization, and expectations.

• Enhance the experience for developers and contributors through tooling and automation.

• Improve visual testing, operational workflows, adoption measurement, system health communication, and documentation publishing.

• Facilitate team rituals and align stakeholders across the Design and Engineering teams.

• Mentor and coach engineers to foster technical leadership within the frontend community.

• Actively contribute code as part of both strategic and execution-focused roles.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in building and maintaining component libraries or platform-type products that serve multiple teams.

• Proficiency in TypeScript and modern frontend engineering; experience with React is an advantage.

• Experience in designing maintainable systems with defined boundaries, versioning, and backward compatibility.

• Familiarity with testing practices and tools, including unit, integration, and end-to-end testing.

• Strong focus on quality.

• Knowledge of accessibility and best practices for UI performance.

• Experience working collaboratively with designers and product engineers.

• Ability to navigate trade-offs among various stakeholders.

• Excellent communication skills, active listening, pragmatic leadership, and coaching abilities.

• Applications must be submitted in English.

🏝️ Benefits

• Your very own Pleo card (eliminating out-of-pocket expenses!).

• Complimentary lunch on workdays – enjoy catered meals or receive a lunch allowance based on your local office.

• Extensive private healthcare options – depending on your location, coverage can include Vitality, Alan, or Médis.

• 25 days of vacation in addition to public holidays.

• Options for hybrid or fully remote work.

• Free mental health and well-being support through MyndUp.

• Paid parental leave.