Design Systems Architect

About the role

The Design Systems Architect role is centered on systems-level frontend engineering, architecture, and developer enablement. You will join a team responsible for building and maintaining frontend tooling used across numerous applications.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and grow the React component library, ensuring the quality of implementations that product teams depend on daily.
• Build relationships with internal teams to understand their pain points and champion their needs back into the system.
• Influence component specifications by providing feedback on API design and real-world usage to shape best practices.
• Partner with system designers to translate design intent into React implementations and provide feedback on technical constraints and opportunities.
• Champion the developer experience by proposing API shapes, naming conventions, and composition patterns.
• Ensure the React component library remains in parity with the broader design system, closing any gaps in functionality or interaction support.
• Engage in component proposals and provide a React-specific perspective on cross-cutting decisions.
• Participate in hands-on daily development using TypeScript, React, and related testing and documentation tools.

Requirements

• Proven experience as a senior or principal-level engineer with a systems-thinking mindset and strong architectural depth.
• Demonstrated experience building tools, frameworks, or libraries used by other developers.
• Experience in systems design, research-oriented problem-solving, and solving novel technical problems.
• Experience with React and an interest in learning and working with its internal mechanics.

Technical Skills

• Proficiency in frontend development with a focus on systems-level engineering rather than application page-building.
• Ability to write clear and concise documentation, including changelogs, prop documentation, and architecture notes.
• Familiarity with consuming and integrating token-based design systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience shipping tooling that other developers use, with an understanding of composition tradeoffs and library maintenance.
• Background in languages such as C, C++, C#, or Java is considered a strong plus due to the engineering rigor associated with them.
• Previous experience with design systems, component libraries, or framework and platform engineering.
• Curiosity about how different frameworks operate and the ability to recognize patterns across paradigms.
• A collaborative approach to accessibility and experience implementing guidance from accessibility experts.

Pay

The offered rate will be determined based on factors such as experience, skills, and qualifications. The compensation range is $60.00 to $80.00 per hour.

Schedule

This position requires being onsite four days a week.

Benefits

Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our ‘Welcome Packet’ as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.