Senior Design Technologist
Information Technology
Information Technology
Chicago , Illinois Contract Apr 22, 2025
Senior Design Technologist
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Duration: 1 year, contract
Compensation: $70+/hour
JOB DESCRIPTION
We’re looking for a Design Technologist to join our CXD team to help build, scale, and maintain our design system infrastructure. This hybrid role blends front-end engineering and design system thinking with the goal of increasing velocity, consistency, and collaboration across products, brands, and engineering teams. As we scale, our design system is a critical foundation. We need a technologist who can bridge the gap between designers and developers, someone who can translate visual language into robust, reusable components, workflows, and tools that empower teams to move faster without compromising quality.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Duration: 1 year, contract
Compensation: $70+/hour
JOB DESCRIPTION
We’re looking for a Design Technologist to join our CXD team to help build, scale, and maintain our design system infrastructure. This hybrid role blends front-end engineering and design system thinking with the goal of increasing velocity, consistency, and collaboration across products, brands, and engineering teams. As we scale, our design system is a critical foundation. We need a technologist who can bridge the gap between designers and developers, someone who can translate visual language into robust, reusable components, workflows, and tools that empower teams to move faster without compromising quality.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Working closely with our engineers and designers to build and maintain our design system, (design tokens, components, and other code patterns) and improve it over time.
- Authoring beautiful, accessible components that work across all our supported platforms (web, iOS, and Android).
- Building internal tools like Figma plugins, and lint rules to empower all of our engineers and designers to use the design system to the fullest extent.
- Providing guidance to teams on the best way to use design systems components and tools across their projects through pairing and documentation.
- Create interactive prototypes to communicate your work. Use user research and data to inform your reasoning
- Write clear, accessible documentation for the design system — including usage guidelines, component behavior, and integration instructions.
- Reviewing code and designs
- 4+ years of work experience as a software engineer building, shipping, and iterating on product features or internal tools.
- 1+ years’ experience working on a design system.
- Expertise with web (Vue, TypeScript)
- Experience with mobile (Swift or Kotlin) client-focused development
- A deep understanding of accessibility and its application in creating robust user interfaces.
- Strong, clear written communication skills.
- Experience working on cross-functional teams with designers or product managers.
- Willingness to learn new technical skills and expand your toolkit.
- A consistent track record of delivering multi-milestone projects on time and at a high level.
- Experience safely migrating existing front-end codebases to new technical patterns at scale.
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