Principal Software Engineer - Design Systems

Deputy is a global SaaS workforce management company headquartered in Sydney, San Francisco, and London. Our platform serves over 1.5 million workers and 375,000 workplaces across 100+ countries. We are backed by top global investors and recently achieved Unicorn status. 

At Deputy, we’re improving the world of work, one shift at a time, for 80% of the world’s workforce: hourly workers. These are the dedicated employees who keep our world running – from baristas to nurses, cleaners to delivery drivers, florists to factory workers. Despite their vital role in society, most workplace technology has focused on those workers who sit behind a desk, but at Deputy, we transform the frontline. When businesses use Deputy, their workplaces thrive – the business is more profitable, compliant, and productive, while the workers are more engaged and happier at work.

If you’re passionate about creating solutions that put people first and helping businesses and their teams thrive, join us at Deputy and make an impact where it matters most!

We’re seeking a highly skilled and visionary Principal Engineer to drive the growth and impact of our design system, Copilot. In this key role, you’ll partner closely with the design lead to ensure a smooth and seamless transition from design to code, fostering collaboration between design and engineering.

You’ll play a crucial role in driving to ensure that our front-end experiences are of the highest quality—intuitive, delightful, and consistent for our customers. As an advocate for the design system, you’ll evangelise its benefits, ensuring that our engineering teams are informed, up-to-date, and inspired by the frontend design strategy. Together, we’ll build cohesive, exceptional user experiences while driving innovation in our processes.

You wake up every morning knowing with confidence that your work is being used to power 365,000 workplaces and the livelihood of millions of users worldwide.

Responsibilities

• Strategy: Lead the design and development of a comprehensive component library in Vue.js, focusing on reusable, maintainable, and scalable components to underpin and support the design system vision.
• Implementation: Lead the creation and implementation, and continuous improvement of reusable components, technical resources, tools, onboarding and documentation.
• You are a clear and proactive communicator and can articulate your ideas when writing and speaking. 
• You take initiative and call for support when you need it. Ability to lead by example, rolling up your sleeves to “show the way”
• You value good design, have an eye for detail, and can interpret technical concepts to a non-technical audience.
• Foster team alignment and collaboration on technical decisions to ensure a cohesive direction.
• Create a culture where feedback is welcomed, allowing the team to challenge and improve ideas collectively. Create an environment where team members feel comfortable sharing their ideas and opinions.
• Provide a framework for accessibility and inclusion in both the design and development process.
• Design, implement and deliver reusable components for product features - with consideration to high performance, high-quality systems and applications using modern industry best practices.
• Influence and problem-solve with senior, mid, and junior engineers to deliver high-quality outcomes. This role may not have direct reports, but your leadership and mentorship will drive the squads to successful outcomes.
• Ensure reliability and quality of the Design System through automated tooling like linters and tests.
• Write simple, efficient, self-documented modular high-quality code that follows best practices.
• Engage in technical discussion of solutions and process improvement through documentation, design reviews, pair programming, code review and technology discussions.
• Share your expertise through documentation, design reviews, code contributions, presentations and technology discussions.

Skills & Experience

• 10+ years in frontend development including significant time in a leadership or principal role
• Deep SaaS experience across multiple domains or problem spaces
• Have created a multi-year technical vision and seen it through to fruition through the deployment of solid communication skills
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to clearly articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders and contribute to architectural decision-making.
• Are able to introduce new technologies or practices to a large engineering function and ensure successful take-up through advocacy, education and governance
• Proven ability to shape architectural strategies and drive technical innovation.
• Execute on strategic direction including shifts in technology and paradigms.

Employee Perks

- Ownership in the company via Share Options

- Paternity/Maternity Leave Policies

- Flexible Remote-First Work Policy

- Company wide Development & Coaching

- Hackathons

- Awards - "Your Time to Shine & Celebrate Success"

- Social Events & variety of social clubs (Books, LGBT, Games, Sports)

- Mental Health Support

- Munch & Learns

Deputy believes in equal opportunity and that inclusiveness and diversity promotes innovation. Our global team members are from a variety of cultures. And we welcome different perspective and skills. 

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