About the job
Join our innovative engineering team at SmartRecruiters, where we tackle one of the modern economy's crucial challenges: connecting exceptional talent with outstanding job opportunities. Our technology-driven approach has already aided over 100 million job seekers, with an additional 5 million joining every month. We are on the lookout for a talented Frontend Engineer to help us shape the future of our platform.
Our R&D structure is designed around empowered product teams, allowing them to take ownership of business outcomes and solve problems in ways that delight customers while also benefiting the business. Our approach is inspired by leading industry practices, including insights from Team Topologies and Empowered.
The user interface of our platform leverages a micro frontends architecture, comprising numerous applications developed with cutting-edge technologies such as Angular, React, and Node.js. We pride ourselves on our robust CI/CD culture, facilitating an impressive 40 production deployments per engineer each month.
Note: This position is available exclusively under a standard employment contract with 80% of tax-deductible costs.
Your Responsibilities:
- Lead initiatives: You will spearhead design system and accessibility projects across product teams.
- Identify opportunities: Conduct interviews with frontend engineers and designers to uncover gaps in our design system, accessibility processes, and shared UI infrastructure.
- Work independently: Transform open-ended platform challenges into actionable plans and implement improvements proactively.
- Maintain alignment: Regularly communicate with engineering and design partners to ensure synchronization on components, patterns, and standards.
- Create documentation: Develop clear and concise documentation for components, guidelines, accessibility workflows, and contribution models as part of your routine tasks.
- Influence direction: Shape technical decisions, enhance the design system, and elevate the standards for accessibility and UI quality.
- Mentor and support: Assist engineers in adopting consistent patterns, improving accessibility, and effectively utilizing the design system through collaboration and structured knowledge sharing.
- Collaborate cross-functionally: Work closely with Design, Product, and Technologists to ensure alignment of specifications, patterns, and standards with the overarching goals of the company.
- Advance the system: Utilize systems thinking to refine components, workflows, and governance as our product and organization evolve.

