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Staff Design Systems Engineer - Blink Health
Systems Engineer
Lead the creation and evolution of a scalable design system for a high‑traffic healthcare platform, using React, TypeScript, and modern CSS‑in‑JS while ensuring accessibility and seamless collaboration with product and UI/UX teams.
About the role
Key Responsibilities
- Architect, develop, and maintain a reusable, cross‑product design system that powers Blink Health’s web applications.
- Collaborate closely with product managers, UI/UX designers, and engineering teams to translate visual designs from Figma into high‑quality, production‑ready components.
- Implement component libraries using React, TypeScript, and CSS‑in‑JS solutions, ensuring consistency, performance, and accessibility compliance (WCAG 2.1).
- Establish best practices, coding standards, and documentation for design system usage, onboarding, and contribution workflows.
- Mentor senior and junior engineers, conduct design‑system reviews, and drive continuous improvement through metrics and feedback loops.
Requirements
- 5+ years of front‑end engineering experience, with a strong focus on design systems and component libraries.
- Deep expertise in React, TypeScript, and modern styling approaches (e.g., styled‑components, Emotion).
- Proven track record of building accessible, scalable UI components and integrating them into large‑scale web applications.
- Experience working with design tools such as Figma and translating design tokens into code.
- Strong communication skills and ability to influence cross‑functional teams in a fast‑moving, remote environment.
Skills
reacttypescriptfigmanodejs