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Design System Engineer (12-month FTC)

London💼 Full-time🗓 2026-04-23 → 2026-09-26

Core

Build and govern a multi-platform design system (Web, iOS, Android) to ensure visual consistency and accelerate frontend development, including integrating AI-assisted coding tools.

Role type

Senior Design System Engineer (Contract)

Builds

A robust, scalable component library in React/TypeScript serving thousands of requests per second across the customer journey.

Domain

Travel technology / D2C e-commerce

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

React, TypeScript, modern CSS, token architecture, versioning, governance, accessibility, web performance optimization, usage analytics, documentation

Preferred skills

Travel sector knowledge, multi-brand/white-label architecture, internationalisation at scale

Technologies

React, TypeScript, Figma, Claude Code, Cursor

Responsibilities

Co-lead design system evolution and governance; build and maintain component libraries; bridge design and engineering to translate specs into reusable components; review features for UX consistency; improve developer experience; collaborate on product priorities

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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