Design Systems Engineer

Ambrook

Responsible for design systems at Ambrook, focusing on frontend infrastructure, performance, and team collaboration. Building and evolving component libraries while driving system adoption.

Posted 8/1/2026full-timeNew York City • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $115,000 - $280,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in Frontend Engineering with a focus on TypeScript and React, while effectively managing Design Systems and Component Libraries. Prioritizes Frontend Performance and Accessibility, employing modern tooling and workflows to ensure high-quality deliverables.

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TypeScriptReactDesign System OwnershipFrontend Performance OptimizationAccessibility Engineering

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Hard Skills

Frontend EngineeringClean Code PracticesAsync ProgrammingData StructuresMigration ScriptsCodemodsVersioningTooling WorkflowsComponent Library DevelopmentPerformance Profiling

Soft Skills

CuriosityEmpathyDesign InstinctsCollaborationCommunication

Industry Keywords

Component LibraryDesign TokensBundle Size ManagementRender PerformanceHuman-Centered Design

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Open SourceReactTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

The design system: Build and evolve our component library, interaction patterns, and design tokens as production frontend infrastructure that holds up across web and mobile
Migrations and adoption: Drive the system into the product. Land breaking changes, deprecate old patterns, and do the human work of getting the whole team to actually build on it
Frontend performance: Treat bundle size, render performance, and accessibility as features, and own the tooling and guardrails that keep them from regressing
Agentic development with craft: Write the codemods, migration scripts, and agent workflows that let the whole team move onto the system faster, without sacrificing the quality of what ships

Requirements

What you’ll need

You bring deep frontend engineering chops: clean, performant TypeScript and React, with a solid grasp of data structures, async programming, and modern build and tooling workflows
You've owned a design system or shared component library in production, and you know the hard parts: versioning, breaking changes, migrations at scale, and convincing other engineers to build on your work
You treat frontend performance and accessibility as engineering problems. You can profile a slow render, cut a bundle down, and put guardrails in place to keep the wins
You use coding agents as part of how you work, pointing them at migrations and adoption to move faster across a large codebase
You have strong enough design instincts to spot when something feels off in a UI and hold a high bar, even if you spend more time in the codebase than in Figma
You're curious about and empathetic to the domain we operate in
Your past work, whether shipped systems, tooling, open source, or a portfolio, tells a clear story of your engineering skills and your craft.

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