Amplify
Senior Staff Engineer, Design Systems
$170K–$190K
Remote - United States · Remote · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 26, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of relevant work experience.
About the job
Leads the architecture, implementation, and adoption of Amplify’s next-generation Design System across products, while setting engineering standards and exploring AI-assisted development workflows.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain reusable components, design tokens, frontend infrastructure, documentation, and contribution processes.
- Align teams on technical strategy and standards; guide adoption, governance, and accessible implementation across products.
- Explore AI-assisted workflows and mentor engineers through technical guidance and code reviews.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of relevant work experience in a listed field, including Front-end Developer, UI Engineer, Design Technologist, or Design engineer.
- Fluency in React, TypeScript, JavaScript, semantic HTML, CSS, responsive design, design systems, Figma, Git, frontend tooling and testing, WCAG, and scalable frontend architecture.
- Portfolio demonstrating polished, responsive user interfaces and web apps, including some built with React.
- Experience leading cross-functional technical initiatives, influencing engineering decisions across teams, and managing competing stakeholder priorities.
Nice to have
- Experience in education technology or a related field.
- Storybook or similar tools; CSS custom properties and token-driven styling; scalable CSS; component contracts; Redux; Figma UI component libraries; or AI skills and modern token-driven design systems.
Pay
$170K – $190K USD base salary
Tools
React, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Figma, Git, Storybook
AI focus
Explore and implement AI-assisted development workflows to improve the efficiency and quality of component development, testing, and documentation.
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