Senior Frontend Engineer - Design Systems

1 month ago
Full-time
Senior
Software Development
Mercury

Mercury

Mercury provides online business banking solutions tailored for startups and small businesses, offering streamlined financial workflows and quick application processes to enhance operational efficiency.

Banks
251-1K
Founded 2017
$152M raised

Description

  • Build and maintain design system components, patterns, and foundations such as tokens, type, color, and layout.
  • Maintain a high bar for accessibility, performance, and pixel-level craft across the design system.
  • Partner closely with design stakeholders to move new patterns from concept to production.
  • Lead projects that ship new UI patterns to address pain points for product teams.
  • Develop the design system to work effectively for both people and AI-assisted workflows.
  • Improve the design system’s prototyping experience for rapid iteration and exploration of new concepts.
  • Mentor teammates and raise the team’s craft and AI fluency through clear best practices.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of frontend development experience.
  • Deep experience with React, TypeScript, and modern web technologies.
  • Experience building or maintaining a design system or shared component library.
  • Strong command of modern frontend tooling, including build systems, CI/CD, and testing.
  • High agency and comfort creating clarity in ambiguous situations.
  • First-principles systems thinking with an orientation toward outcomes.
  • Strong product taste and an instinct for leverage across many teams.
  • Hands-on fluency with how AI is changing software development and the ability to apply it practically.
  • Experience working at the intersection of AI and software development (preferred).

Benefits

  • Base salary plus equity, including stock options/RSUs.
  • Competitive compensation aligned to SaaS and fintech market data.
  • US base salary range of $166,600 to $208,300.
  • Canadian base salary range of CAD 157,400 to 196,800.
  • Reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities or special needs.
  • Equal employment opportunity and a commitment to diversity and belonging.

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