Senior Software Engineer, Design Systems

About the role

The Senior Software Engineer, Design Systems role at AbbVie focuses on Unity, AbbVie's enterprise design system. This role involves designing, building, testing, and maintaining reusable, accessible React/TypeScript components for the Unity React library. It also includes developing full-stack supporting services, front-end automation, and build/release/validation tooling using Python and Node.js. The individual will be responsible for AI-assisted and agentic developer workflows, providing community support, and acting as the developer-facing face of Unity.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and maintain reusable, accessible React/TypeScript components for the Unity React library, with deep attention to design tokens/tokenization, theming (light/dark, density modes), composability, and Storybook documentation.
• Build and pioneer AI-assisted and agentic developer workflows Claude Code skills, MCP server integrations (Figma, Storybook), context/markdown files, and prompt-to-code/design-to-code pipelines that enable both developers and AI agents to deliver Unity-compliant UI at scale. (Claude Code skills experience is required.)
• Develop full-stack supporting services, front-end automation, and build/release/validation tooling using Python and Node.js (CI/CD, design-ops, compliance checks).
• Own quality end-to-end: write and maintain automated tests, perform accessibility (WCAG 2.2 AA) and cross-browser QA using the team tool stack (Storybook, Axe, GitHub), and QA your own work before release.
• Act as the developer-facing face of Unity, providing community support, outreach, and management; build relationships, run demos/office hours/presentations, and establish trust and credibility as the go-to resource for Unity development.
• Work autonomously to gather and generate requirements directly from developer-community needs, translate them into actionable work, and communicate back to the team with quick feedback loops.
• Contribute to Unity's data-visualization capabilities and support data-science-driven features, applying a data-science background and data-visualization experience where applicable.
• Wear multiple hats and context-switch as a co-owner of team responsibilities across requirements, development, QA/testing, deployment, application development, community building, and presentations.
• Stay current with state-of-the-art AI development and productivity tooling; pilot, evaluate, and roll out improvements (e.g., Storybook MCP, AI documentation, new productivity tools) across the team.
• Provide technical leadership and mentor less-experienced staff; partner with designers, brand, accessibility, and BTS stakeholders; and adhere to corporate standards including code of conduct, data security, GxP compliance where applicable, and the software development lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree with 6 years' experience; Master's Degree with 5 years' experience; or PhD with 0 years' experience.
• Seasoned front-end engineer with expert React and TypeScript skills, strong HTML/CSS, and proven design-system/component-library development experience.
• Strong understanding and awareness of design tokens/tokenization and scalable theming.
• Hands-on agentic AI and AI-workflow development experience; demonstrated ability to build Claude Code skills (required) and AI-assisted developer tooling.
• Backend and full-stack capability with Python and Node.js.
• Proficiency with the team tool stack: Storybook, GitHub, and accessibility/WCAG testing tools (e.g., Axe).
• Strong testing and QA discipline consistently QA own work.
• Experience building products for a developer-facing audience, with the ability to meet developers where they are.
• Proven ability to work autonomously, generate and gather requirements, and operate with fast feedback loops while wearing multiple hats and co-owning responsibilities.
• Excellent written and oral English communication; strong community outreach and relationship-building; a proactive, collaborative team player.

Additional Information

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• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.

  We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

  This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs.

  Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employer remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company's sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.

  AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.

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