Senior Design System Developer - Frontend (Hybrid)

Orion Innovation is a premier, award-winning, global business and technology services firm.  Orion delivers game-changing business transformation and product development rooted in digital strategy, experience design, and engineering, with a unique combination of agility, scale, and maturity.  We work with a wide range of clients across many industries including financial services, professional services, telecommunications and media, consumer products, automotive, industrial automation, professional sports and entertainment, life sciences, ecommerce, and education.

Our Partner

Our partner is a fast-growing software company that builds networks like clouds. It offers communications service providers and cloud providers a radical new way to build networks, detaching network growth from network cost and increasing network profitability.

Our partner’s Network Cloud solution uniquely supports the complete virtualization of network and compute resources, enabling communication service providers and cloud providers to meet increasing service demands much more efficiently than with today’s monolithic routers.

Their software runs over standard white-box hardware and can easily scale network capacity by adding additional white boxes into physical network clusters. This unique disaggregated network model enables the physical infrastructure to operate as a shared resource that supports multiple networks and services. This unique network design also allows faster service innovation at the network edge, supporting multiple service payloads, including latency-sensitive ones, over a single physical network edge.

Overall Objective of the Role

We are looking for a Senior Design System Developer to join our Network Orchestration group. Our group is responsible for developing scalable, high-performance distributed systems that support complex network infrastructures. As a Senior Design System Developer, you will be part of the core leadership team responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining our reusable component library. You will collaborate closely with designers, architects, and engineers across multiple teams to create a robust, well-documented, and future-proof system. This is a hands-on, highly technical role that blends deep frontend expertise with cross-functional collaboration, architectural decision-making, and a passion for building high-quality UI foundations. Our group is growing, and you will play a key role in building and expanding the team. You'll have the opportunity to optimize and enhance key parts of our system, leveraging the latest tools and infrastructure to drive innovation and efficiency. We embrace an agile mindset – you should be comfortable with context switching, handling multiple priorities, and adapting quickly to changing requirements.

Responsibilities

• Contribute as part of the core leadership group for our new Design System initiative.
• Design, develop, and maintain reusable, scalable, and accessible UI components.
• Collaborate with designers to translate design specifications into high-quality code.
• Shape architectural decisions to ensure performance, maintainability, and scalability.
• Challenge and improve existing UI/UX patterns to enhance usability and developer experience.
• Document and showcase components using Storybook (or similar tools).
• Implement and maintain testing strategies for components (unit, integration, and end-to-end).
• Ensure accessibility compliance (WCAG/ARIA) in all components.
• Partner with multiple teams to promote adoption of the Design System across the company.
• Participate in code reviews, debugging, and architecture discussions to maintain technical excellence.

Requirements

Must Have:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field.
• Technical Expertise: 6+ years of hands-on experience in frontend development. Strong knowledge of JavaScript/TypeScript and React, along with state management solutions (Redux, MobX, etc.). Strong track record of building complex, reusable, and performant components.
• Design System Knowledge: Deep understanding of design system principles including atomic design, design tokens, theming, responsive design, and accessibility (WCAG/ARIA).
• Architecture & Scalability: Proven experience contributing to architectural decisions in large-scale frontend projects, ensuring performance, maintainability, and scalability.
• Component Documentation: Hands-on experience with Storybook (or similar tools) for UI component documentation, previews, and development workflows.
• Testing: Strong knowledge of UI testing methodologies, including unit, component, and end-to-end testing (e.g., Jest, React Testing Library, Playwright, Cypress), with the ability to integrate testing into CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaboration & Communication: Skilled at working closely with designers, engineers, and cross-functional teams to translate design concepts into high-quality, reusable components.
• Tooling Proficiency: Familiarity with modern frontend tooling such as Webpack/Vite, TypeScript, and CSS-in-JS solutions.
• Problem-Solving Mindset: Ability to challenge and improve existing UI/UX patterns while ensuring system-wide consistency.
• Best Practices Advocacy: Committed to promoting design system principles, coding standards, and accessibility guidelines across the organization.

Nice To Have:

• Experience integrating Design Systems with Figma or other design tools.
• Contributions to open-source component libraries or frameworks.
• Knowledge of design token pipelines and multi-brand theming strategies.
• Familiarity with Nx platform for monorepo management.
• Experience with micro frontend architecture.

Reasons to Work with Us

• Competitive financial conditions.
• Opportunity to work on internationally recognized projects.
• Flexible schedule and a hybrid work model, prioritizing remote work as much as possible to support work-life balance.
• An exciting career path within a friendly, dynamic, and growing organization.
• Professional development opportunities in a multicultural environment.
• Private medical coverage with Medlife or Regina Maria.
• Meal vouchers.
• Gift vouchers for special occasions such as birthdays, weddings, or childbirth.
• Wellbeing programs, including sick days, 7Card subscriptions, and relaxation facilities in the office.
• Team-building events and other social experiences.
• Budget allocated for certifications relevant to your project.
• Workshops, internal training sessions, and knowledge-sharing opportunities.
• Access to LinkedIn Learning, upon request.
• Access to Udemy, if required for your project.
• Convenient city-center office location.
• Shared parking spaces.

As a global digital transformation company, Orion values creating a productive, diverse work environment. We are committed to maintaining a positive work environment where our people value traits that make each one of us different from one another. We all bring a diverse set of perspectives, work and life experiences, and our differences make us more valuable both internally and for our clients.

Orion is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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