[Hiring] Senior Staff Engineer, Design Systems @Amplify

Role Description

Amplify’s creative team is a group of designers, artists, and storytellers. We sketch, we write, we push pixels, and we also love paper. We live for the big ideas, and we sweat the details. Working across digital, print, and interactive experiences, we bring a hands-on, highly collaborative approach to product development and design systems.

A Senior Staff Engineer on Amplify’s Product Brand team leads the technical architecture and implementation strategy for Amplify’s next-generation Design System, enabling consistent, accessible, and maintainable experiences across products and platforms. Working at the intersection of Engineering, Product Design, accessibility, and emerging technologies, this role translates shared design standards into scalable technical solutions that can be adopted across the Amplify ecosystem.

This role offers the opportunity to shape the Design System from an early stage, defining its technical foundations, engineering standards, and ways of working. In close partnership with Product, Design, and Engineering leadership, the Senior Staff Engineer drives technical alignment, contribution models, and adoption across teams. As a hands-on technical leader, this person builds and validates solutions, improves development workflows, explores AI-assisted engineering practices, and mentors engineers to support a sustainable, widely adopted Design System.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant work experience in fields such as Front-end Developer, UI Engineer, Design Technologist, or Design Engineer.
• Fluent in:
  • Modern React, TypeScript, and JavaScript
  • Semantic HTML, CSS, and responsive design
  • Design systems architecture, reusable UI components, and design tokens
  • Figma for design-to-code workflows
  • Git and collaborative software development
  • Frontend build tools, component packaging, and testing
  • Web accessibility standards (WCAG) and accessible interaction patterns
  • Scalable frontend architecture across multiple applications and technology stacks
• Body of work demonstrating experience building polished user interfaces, responsive layouts, and web apps, with at least some examples built with React.
• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional technical initiatives, influencing engineering decisions across teams, and managing stakeholders with competing priorities.

Requirements

• Experience with design in education technology or a related field.
• Storybook or similar component documentation and development tools.
• Familiarity with CSS custom properties, design tokens, and token-driven styling architectures.
• Familiarity with scalable CSS methodologies.
• Familiarity with contract-based design systems and component contracts.
• Redux and state management.
• Building, publishing and maintaining Figma UI component libraries.
• Building AI skills and modern token-driven design systems.

Benefits

• Amplify is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
• Amplify makes employment decisions based on qualifications and merit, and does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability status, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic or status.
• Amplify is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities, including disabled veterans.
• If you have a disability and need an accommodation in connection with the application or hiring process, please email [email protected].
• If you are selected for employment, a background check will be required.
• As required by state and local laws and district policies, you may be required to provide additional documentation, such as proof of vaccination, or submit to enhanced background screening, such as fingerprinting.
• Amplify is an E-Verify participant.