Software Development Manager – Design System

SAS

full-time

Posted on: 1/30/2026

Location Type: Hybrid

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About the role

Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering team of front-end developers and SDETs through coaching, career development, and performance management.
Define the technical strategy and architecture for Filament’s newest component offering, setting standards for development, testing, documentation, and scalable deployment.
Translate design specifications into technical requirements by partnering closely with Filament designers to ensure feasibility, performance, and accessibility.
Own sprint execution and delivery, including planning, prioritization, estimation, and balancing feature work with technical debt to maintain predictable release cycles.
Establish and enforce engineering excellence by driving code reviews, testing standards, CI/CD practices, version control workflows, documentation quality, and accessibility compliance (WCAG).
Collaborate across Filament engineering teams to ensure components properly extend and consume design tokens, base components, and foundational system layers.
Manage team operations and capacity, including KPIs, resource planning, budgeting, and hiring, while fostering a culture of innovation, quality, and continuous improvement.
Be encouraged to participate in open-source projects on behalf of SAS.
Ensure all applicable security policies and processes are followed to support the organization’s secure software development goals.
Embrace curiosity, passion, authenticity and accountability.

Bachelor's degree in quantitative field, preferably computer science, math, or statistics.
Requires a minimum of eight years of related programming or testing experience, including one year of project lead, supervisory or management experience.
Eight years of professional programming or testing experience may be considered in lieu of previous management experience.
Demonstrated mastery of modern front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript), React (including meta‑frameworks like Next.js), and/or Web Components, including the ability to design, build, and optimize performant UI components.
5+ years leading development of component-based architectures or design system libraries at scale, including applying architectural patterns (SPA/MPA), integrating tokens/base components, and ensuring compatibility across applications.
Demonstrated success driving accessibility compliance, enforcing engineering best practices (code reviews, testing, CI/CD, Git workflows), and partnering with Design, Product, and stakeholders to deliver high-quality solutions.
Equivalent combination of related education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications.

Benefits

Comprehensive medical, prescription, dental and vision plans.
Medical plan options include: PPO with low annual deductible and copays.
HDHP combined with a health savings account with a contribution from SAS (no access to on-site health care center).
Onsite Health Care Center (HQ) that’s free to employees and family members enrolled in the PPO plan.
There's a pharmacy too! Not local to HQ? The pharmacy will ship prescriptions for no additional charge!
An industry-leading 401k plan.
Tuition Assistance Program and programs and resources to support your development.
Generous time away including vacation time, a variety of paid holidays, and our much-loved U.S. Winter Wellness Break between December 25 and January 1.
Volunteer Time Off, parental leave and unlimited paid sick days.
Generous childcare benefits for all full-time employees.

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Hard Skills & Tools

HTMLCSSJavaScriptReactNext.jsWeb ComponentsCI/CDGitcomponent-based architectureaccessibility compliance

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringcoachingperformance managementcollaborationinnovationquality assurancecuriosityauthenticityaccountability