Software Developer, Design System

About the role

The Digital Experience organization in R&D is seeking a Front-End Developer to join the team creating SAS’s newest component offering in its design system, Filament.

Responsibilities

• Develop front-end components based on design specifications, ensuring implementations match design intent and meet quality, performance, and accessibility standards.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code following established patterns, conventions, and best practices for the component library.
• Implement responsive, accessible components that meet WCAG compliance standards and work seamlessly across browsers, devices, and assistive technologies.
• Collaborate with designers to refine component specifications, provide technical feasibility input, and ensure smooth design-to-development handoff.
• Participate in code reviews, providing and receiving constructive feedback to maintain code quality and share knowledge across the team.
• Write unit tests, integration tests, and accessibility tests to ensure component reliability and prevent regressions.
• Contribute to component documentation in Storybook, including usage guidelines, prop specifications, and interactive examples.
• Consume and extend Filament design tokens and foundational components, ensuring consistency with the broader design system.
• Participate in sprint planning, estimation, and retrospectives.
• Be encouraged to participate in open-source projects on behalf of SAS.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical field (or equivalent practical experience)
• 5 years of front-end development experience
• Proficiency with modern front-end technologies including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and component frameworks (particularly React, including meta-frameworks like Next.js), and Web Components
• Experience building web components or working within component-based architectures
• Experience implementing accessible web interfaces with an understanding of WCAG standards and assistive technology compatibility
• Strong understanding of responsive design, CSS layout techniques, and cross-browser compatibility
• An understanding of the current AI landscape and a familiarity with AI/Agentic AI dev tooling and version control system (Git)

Qualifications

• Equivalent combination of related education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications.

Additional Competencies, Knowledge And Skills

• Considers others’ perspectives—Involves others throughout the decision-making process to obtain better information, generate alternatives, and ensure buy-in to the resulting decisions; builds consensus when appropriate.
• Takes action—Initiates action to correct quality problems or notifies others of quality issues as appropriate.
• Shares expertise—Keeps others informed about latest technology innovations; serves as a technical resource to help others understand and anticipate the impact of technology on current processes, products, and services.
• Experience building and maintaining design systems or component libraries, including familiarity with design tokens, CSS architecture patterns, theming systems, and component documentation tools such as Storybook
• Strong understanding of front-end architecture and development practices, including single-page versus multi-page applications, TypeScript and type-safe development, and modern build tools, package managers, and tooling
• Experience with software quality and delivery practices, including automated testing frameworks and exposure to Agile software development methodologies
• Familiarity with global-ready front-end development, including internationalization and localization considerations

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!
• 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.