Senior Frontend Software Engineer (Design System/Accessibility)

Company Description

🚀 SmartRecruiters transforms hiring for the world’s leading enterprises. We deliver an AI-powered hiring platform built for global scale, automating and optimizing the entire talent acquisition process. More than 4,000 companies, including LinkedIn, McDonald's, VISA, CD Projekt Red, Allegro rely on SmartRecruiters to build winning teams. 

🚀 In 2025, SmartRecruiters joined SAP, the global leader in enterprise applications. Together, we are accelerating the reinvention of hiring by combining AI innovation with the scale and resources of SAP’s ecosystem.

We designed our R&D structure based on the empowered product teams model. It means our teams are responsible for business outcomes and have autonomy in solving problems in the way that “customers love yet work for the business” (yes, we are heavily influenced by this and that).

Job Description

The graphic interface of our system is based on micro frontends architecture that consists of dozens of applications built using modern technologies: Angular, React, and Node.js. Shared pieces of the system are built using web components. We have a strong CI/CD culture, and we currently run 40 production deployments per engineer per month.

What you’ll deliver: 

• Lead projects: you will plan and own DS and accessibility initiatives across product teams.

• Discover opportunities: you will interview frontend engineers and designers to identify gaps in the design system, accessibility workflow, and shared UI infrastructure.

• Work autonomously: you will take open-ended platform problems, shape them into actionable plans, and deliver improvements without waiting for detailed direction.

• Get and stay in sync: you will communicate early and often with engineering and design partners to maintain alignment on components, patterns, and standards.

• Author technical documents: you will produce clear documentation for components, guidelines, accessibility workflows, and contribution models as part of your daily work.

• Set direction: you will influence technical decisions, evolve the design system, and raise the bar for accessibility and shared UI quality.

• Support and mentor: you will help engineers adopt consistent patterns, improve accessibility, and use the design system effectively through pairing, guidance, and structured knowledge sharing across teams.

• Cross-disciplinary collaboration: you will partner closely with Design, Product, and Technologists to align specifications, patterns, and standards with broader company goals.

• Evolve the system: you will apply system thinking to refine components, workflows, and governance as the product and organization grow.

Qualifications

Must have qualifications:

• Understanding of JavaScript, Typescript, and Node.js 

• Familiarity with all aspects of the frontend ecosystem

• Practical experience applying accessibility standards

• Experience building or maintaining design systems

• Experience delivering cross-team initiatives that required close collaboration with Engineering and Design

• Knowledge of software development methods and best practices

• High level of personal organization skills

• Good communication skills with a good command of English, both verbal and written

Nice to have qualifications:

• Experience with Lit or similar web component technologies

• Experience in defining contribution models or design system governance

• Familiarity with monorepos and cross-team workflows

• Understanding of automated accessibility tooling and CI integrations

• Exposure to inner source practices and platform engineering work

Benefits:

• We support 100% remote work with Wi-Fi reimbursement and an additional stipend for the equipment (the MacBook laptop is provided by us)

• Unlimited vacation days (yes - it's really unlimited)

• Private Medical Care for you and your dependents (Luxmed)

• Wellness Programme (Multisport Card and even more)

• Company wide shutdowns in August and around Christmas

Additional information

SmartRecruiters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.