Senior (Lead) Design System Engineer
Cover Genius
Design
Sydney, NSW, Australia
Posted on Dec 11, 2024
The Company
Cover Genius is a Series E insurtech that protects the global customers of the world’s largest digital companies including Booking Holdings, owner of Priceline, Kayak and Booking.com, Intuit, Uber, Hopper, Ryanair, Turkish Airlines, Descartes ShipRush, Zip and SeatGeek. We’re also available at Amazon, Flipkart, eBay, Wayfair and SE Asia’s largest company, Shopee. Our partners integrate with XCover, our award-winning insurance distribution platform, to embed protection for millions of customers worldwide each year.
Our team and products have been recognized with dozens of awards including by the Financial Times which ranked Cover Genius as the #1 fastest-growing company in APAC in 2020. Our diverse team across 20+ countries and many language groups commit itself to diverse cultural programs, in particular “CG Gives” which makes social entrepreneurs out of us all and funds development initiatives in global communities.
Our People are
Bold, Authentic, Purposeful and Inspired
Our People are not
Perfect, Traditional, Complacent or Cautious
Cover Genius is seeking a talented Design System Engineer to lead the development of our enterprise-wide UI component library and the Design System website. This is a foundational role reporting to the Director of Engineering, with a close partnership with our Design team.
You'll be the technical owner of our web components-based GUI framework and Design System implementation, working at the intersection of design and engineering to help shape how UI is built across the organization. The role involves more than just building components - you'll drive the adoption, documentation, and evolution of the Design System while collaborating with our established Design team and engaged engineers – Design System champions.
We have a strong foundation with the Design System already used by the Design Team in Figma, design tokens synchronised into an early prototype of UI components library which is based on Lit and Lion, and a community of developers who contribute part-time and who will lead the integration of the component library in their teams. You'll be the first full-time engineer dedicated to this initiative, with plans to grow the Design System engineering team further in 2025 and full support from the management and engineering team that both understand the value of Design System framework being adopted in the right way.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain a set of reusable web components that are used by Product teams across the portfolio of business projects.
- Implement design token synchronization between Figma and the web components library.
- Work closely with design and product teams to establish and streamline the design-to-development workflow.
- Develop internal Design System portal.
- Optimize components for performance and accessibility.
- Collaborate with designers to translate design concepts and prototypes into functional, high-quality web components.
- Ensure consistency of the design language across all web components and applications.
- Contribute to the evolution of our design system, ensuring it meets the needs of various products and platforms.
Experience and skills:
- Experience implementing Design Systems and building UI components libraries in larger organisations ideally using Lit, Lion and TypeScript.
- Solid understanding of web components and modern web technologies, standards and practices.
- Strong knowledge of web accessibility standards and experience with accessibility testing.
- Experience working with design teams on implementing design system technical solutions.
- Good understanding of the development best practices, code reviews, continuous integration, release process, version control, code quality tools, linters, etc.
- Experience using testing frameworks – visual, components, end-to-end testing.
- Excellent communication, teamwork and leadership skills.
- Experience with working the Figma API and design to development automation. I.e export tokens from figma would be a plus
- Attention to detail
Cover Genius not only cares about being the best in our industry, we care about our team. We’re a business that understands life can be fluid and so we flex to ensure we provide the environment to suit that. What does that mean?
• Flexible Work Environment - we are outcome focussed and understand that for our people to perform at their best flexibility is critical.
• Employee Stock Options - we want our people to share in our success, we reward them with ownership for their contribution in creating a world-class company.
• Work with like-minded people who are passionate about both the work we're doing and giving back. Our CG Gives programs enables us to all become philanthropists through our peer recognition and rewards system.
• Social Initiatives - pictures speak a thousand words!
Sound interesting? If you think you have the best composition of the above, send us your resume and let's chat!
* Cover Genius promotes diversity and inclusivity. We don't tolerate discrimination, demeaning treatment of anyone, or harassment due to race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.
