Design System Lead Engineer

2 weeks ago

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Pepperstone Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Design System Lead Engineer to join our Engineering Excellence team at Pepperstone. As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for developing and executing our Design System, ensuring high-quality software solutions, and shaping the technical architecture to align with our overall engineering goals.

This is an exciting opportunity to work closely with our Head of Engineering and UX team to create a seamless journey from design to production. Your focus will be on enhancing the developer experience, empowering teams to build shared components while staying aligned with our business objectives.

We are looking for someone who takes initiative and thrives in an agile, fast-paced environment. The ideal candidate is a strong advocate for modern engineering practices, continuously seeking to improve processes and solutions. They are passionate about technology and understand their role within the larger tech ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities
  • Develop and maintain a high-quality federated Design System platform and developer experience, allowing teams autonomy to contribute tested, secure, and scalable components.
  • Design and develop a robust developer experience, including developer onboarding and documentation.
  • Create a robust CI and CD process and testing framework for the Design System, validating the releasability of components.
  • Develop an appropriate strategy for versioning of the component library and enabling teams to upgrade their production applications.
  • Design and develop a strategy for sharing design elements across channels (web and mobile native) integrated with our Figma Design System reference.
  • Lead technical problem-solving and provide technical guidance to other engineers working with the Design System.
  • Foster team alignment and collaboration on technical decisions.
  • Lead technical initiatives, including architecture and design decisions in line with the organisational architecture goals.
  • Participate in driving the software and architecture quality strategy.
  • Advocate for and implement best practices for Continuous Delivery, including automated testing (BDD, TDD), build and deployment pipelines, and observability.
About You
  • Minimum of 5 years of professional software development experience working in an agile team environment with some of that time spent leading a project or engineers.
  • Expertise in browser technologies and browser APIs, JavaScript and the JavaScript specification and runtime(s), and TypeScript.
  • Expertise with React and modern frameworks for managing state, integrating CSS, including modern build systems and bundlers for distribution.
  • Exposure to and a high-level understanding of JavaScript engines and runtimes (V8, JS Core).
  • Deep understanding of Software Engineering best practices, including object-oriented and functional programming, design patterns, testing pyramid & automated testing, Domain Driven Design etc.
  • Exposure to a broad range of front-end platforms and application types (mobile native, PWA's, Web, SPAs, SSR), and architectures (monolithic, micro-frontends, modular, plugin-architectures).
  • Experience establishing architectural patterns across large front-end React applications (MVC, MVVM, Clean Architecture).
  • Understanding of the cloud and its purpose in serving front-end applications.
  • Experience with and an understanding of back-end applications and how they integrate with front-end services as well as different layer 7 protocols and their respective tradeoffs (GraphQL, JSON, Restful APIs, Protobuf).
  • Experience with Continuous Delivery, including automated testing, build and deployment pipelines, and monitoring and alerting.
  • Effective and confident communicator with internal and external stakeholders of different technical understanding.
  • Experience working on platform-level projects servicing the needs of other engineers or teams.
  • Experience designing, building, and enforcing team and service interfaces and boundaries.
Why You Will Enjoy Working with Us
  • Competitive salary structure including company bonus scheme.
  • Genuinely collaborative and friendly culture.
  • Flexible and hybrid working.
  • Remote working option - work from anywhere for up to 6 weeks per year, in addition to hybrid working as standard.
  • Ongoing personal development & learning opportunities.
  • 15 weeks paid primary carers parental leave & 4 weeks paid secondary carers leave.
  • 3 paid volunteering days per year & Workplace Giving Program.
  • Frequent events and celebrations including a standard weekly social.
  • Beautifully renovated large office at Collins Square - 727 Collins Street, Melbourne.
  • Best in class end of trip facilities including bicycle parking, change rooms & showers.
  • A full stocked kitchen, onsite coffee machines with locally sourced coffee beans (this is Melbourne after all) and curated specialty teas.

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