Senior Staff Engineer, Design Systems

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $170k - $190k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Amplify

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2000

📚 Education

☁️ SaaS

💰 Series C - Amplify Education on 2023-05

Education • SaaS

Amplify is a K–12 educational technology and curriculum company that builds next-generation, research-aligned curricula, assessments, and instructional tools for literacy, math, and science. Their offerings include core curricula (Amplify CKLA, Amplify ELA, Amplify Science), assessment and intervention products (mCLASS, Boost Reading, Boost Math), and digital/math resources (Amplify Desmos Math), plus tutoring and teacher professional learning resources. Amplify emphasizes the Science of Reading, provides an integrated digital platform for districts and teachers, and serves thousands of school districts and millions of students and teachers worldwide.

📋 Description

• Architect and build the technical foundations of Amplify’s next-generation Design System • Develop reusable component libraries, design tokens, and frontend infrastructure across Amplify products • Partner with Design, Product, and Engineering leads to align technical strategy and implementation approaches • Build stakeholder relationships, identify dependencies, navigate competing requirements, and communicate technical decisions and tradeoffs • Lead cross-team technical discussions and drive Design System adoption without direct reporting authority • Translate design standards and component contracts into scalable, maintainable, and accessible implementations • Establish engineering standards, implementation patterns, and code quality practices • Maintain repositories, component documentation, release processes, and contribution workflows • Explore and implement AI-assisted development workflows for component development, testing, and documentation • Provide technical mentorship, architectural guidance, and code review support • Establish and lead technical governance processes balancing shared standards with product-specific requirements and business needs

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of relevant work experience • Fluency in modern React, TypeScript, and JavaScript • Fluency in semantic HTML, CSS, and responsive design • Fluency in design systems architecture, reusable UI components, and design tokens • Fluency in Figma for design-to-code workflows • Fluency in Git and collaborative software development • Fluency in frontend build tools, component packaging, and testing • Fluency in web accessibility standards (WCAG) and accessible interaction patterns • Fluency in scalable frontend architecture across multiple applications and technology stacks • Body of work demonstrating polished user interfaces, responsive layouts, and web apps, including some React examples • Experience leading cross-functional technical initiatives • Experience influencing engineering decisions across teams • Experience managing stakeholders with competing priorities • Ability to travel to headquarters in New York for in-person onboarding or periodically during employment, if required • Legally authorized to work in the United States

🏖️ Benefits

• Bonus • 401(k) plan • Competitive health insurance • Mental health options • Basic life insurance • Paid time off • Parental leave • Access to best-in-class development programs • Remote work arrangement • Potential in-person onboarding or periodic travel to headquarters in New York