Frontend Engineer – Design Systems

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Frontend Engineer building React and TypeScript design systems for Mercury, a fintech company. Improving accessible components, documentation, workflows, and AI-assisted development tools.

Responsibilities:

  • Build shared React and TypeScript components and patterns for Mercury interfaces
  • Partner with designers and product engineers to connect design intent with working software
  • Evolve components and tokens across Figma and code
  • Improve accessibility, interactions, reliability, implementation, and testing
  • Improve documentation, examples, workflows, and adoption of the design system
  • Use AI tools to explore approaches and move ideas into working code
  • Contribute to code-based prototyping and tools for designers and AI agents as opportunities align

Requirements:

  • Foundation in React, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS, with experience building interfaces and ability to explain code decisions
  • Interest in accessible interfaces and interaction details
  • Hands-on fluency with AI coding tools, including providing context, evaluating and improving generated code, and verifying results
  • Ownership and willingness to learn
  • Curiosity about reusable systems and shared-component tradeoffs
  • Interest in solving problems alongside designers and engineers
  • Experience with design systems, prototyping, or developer tooling is a plus
  • Experience may come from professional work, internships, coursework, open source, or personal projects

Benefits:

  • Equity (stock options/RSUs)
  • Benefits
  • Reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities or special needs