
X/UI Director, Software Engineering – Design Systems
Cotality
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Dallas • California • Oklahoma • United States
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Salary
💰 $162,400 - $185,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Lead the engineering strategy for a multi-platform design system.
- Architect workflows that utilize LLMs and Generative AI for code generation.
- Identify and eliminate friction in development and CI/CD.
- Partner with Design Directors to align on visual language.
- Mentor and scale a specialized team of engineers passionate about UI architecture.
Requirements
- 10+ years of engineering experience with 4+ years leading Design Systems, UI Engineering, or Developer Tooling teams.
- Proven ability to move beyond "copilots" toward building autonomous agents that maintain code quality, consistency, and brand standards.
- Fluency in both design language (auto-layout, typography) and engineering constraints (latency, API design, tree-shaking).
- Expertise in creating "self-healing" codebases with AI agents.
- Mastery of RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) to ground LLMs in specific brand guidelines.
- Experience building "Visual AI" agents that convert designs into production-ready components.
- Proven track record of building prompt chains for high-quality UI generation at scale.
- Expert-level knowledge of React/Vue and modern CI/CD (GitHub Actions).
- Experience developing custom VS Code extensions and AI-assisted tools.
- Ability to modernize legacy applications into cloud-native architectures.
Benefits
- Generous PTO and 11 paid holidays, plus well-being and volunteer time off.
- Up to 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave and a baby stipend.
- Multiple medical plan options with mental health and wellness support offerings.
- 401(k) with company match and vesting after one year.
- $400 annual well-being stipend and tuition assistance up to $5,250.
- Recognition Rewards, Referral bonuses, exclusive discounts and more!
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
UI EngineeringDesign SystemsDeveloper ToolingGenerative AILLMsRAGReactVueCI/CDAPI design
Soft Skills
leadershipmentoringcollaborationcommunicationstrategic thinkingproblem-solvingteam scalingvisual language alignment