Engineering Team Lead (Design System Team)

We are looking for an Engineer who is a curious problem solver and passionate about the frontend ecosystems and design systems to join the Design System team.

The purposes of the Design System team are:

• Unified User Experience and Efficiency - Ensure a consistent UI/UX across products by aligning design and code standards, enhancing integration, and eliminating inefficiencies for improved usability and development speed
• Adoption and Governance Leadership - Drive wider adoption of SPL (SmartRecruiters Product Language which provides consistent, reusable components for designers and engineers alike) by defining a clear strategy, governance process, and collaboration guidelines, measuring impact, and promoting continuous improvement in product development
• Innovation and Ecosystem Readiness - Transform SPL into an adaptable ecosystem-ready product with automated workflows, fostering innovation through experimentation, and exploring open-source concepts for external developers (partners and customers)

What you will do:

• Discover opportunities: you will continuously interview internal stakeholders (frontend engineers) collecting feedback and building relationships that will drive maximum impact 
• Lead projects: you will plan, execute, and own initiatives 
• Work autonomously: you will work on open-ended problems, solve strategic problems, and think holistically about the frontend ecosystem
• Get and stay in sync: you will communicate early and often attaining alignment within the organization
• Author technical documents: you will make technical writing a part of your daily routine, documenting all aspects of your work and frontend ecosystem
• Set direction: you will set technical direction raising the bar for the team and the whole organization
• Support & Mentor: you will level up all around and help engineers stay effective by joining pair programming sessions, sharing knowledge, and supporting them on a daily basis
• Cross-discipline collaboration: you will collaborate closely with your Product,  Design, and Technologist pairs on the definition of strategy connected to the R&D and Company goals, and the roadmap to achieve them
• Evolve the system: you practice continuous system thinking and reflect on workflows and their side effects possibilities

SmartRecruiters is a values-driven, global-minded, and well-funded tech employer on a mission to connect people to jobs at scale. As a global leader in enterprise recruitment software, SmartRecruiters offers a cloud-based global Hiring Success platform that allows teams to attract, select, and hire the best talent. 4,000 companies worldwide rely on SmartRecruiters to achieve hiring success—including brands like Bosch, LinkedIn, Skechers, and Visa—using recruitment marketing, CRM, AI, ATS, and a marketplace of 600+ connected vendors all within one scalable platform.

We are proud to offer a collaborative, diverse, and a remote-first work environment, as well as competitive salaries and generous equity. We believe in promotion from within, so high performance can lead to upward mobility. Needless to say, we make sure you’re taken care of. Our inclusive office environment welcomes and respects all.

SmartRecruiters enables Hiring Without Boundaries™ by freeing talent acquisition teams from legacy applicant tracking software. SmartRecruiters’ next-generation platform serves as the hiring operating system for 4,000 customers like Bosch, LinkedIn, Skechers, and Visa. Companies with business-critical hiring needs turn to SmartRecruiters for best-of-breed functionality, world-class support, and a robust ecosystem of third-party applications and service providers.

Must have qualifications:

• While not strictly required we see most of our Team Leaders have 5+ years of professional experience
• Understanding of Javascript, Typescript, and Node.js
• Familiarity with all aspects of the frontend ecosystem
• Knowledge of software development methods and best practices
• High level of personal organization skills
• Good communication skills with a good command of English, both verbal and written

Nice to have qualifications:

• Experience in leading a team
• Understanding of modern web applications design architecture
• Interest in inner source and accessibility
• Experience with design systems
• Experience with monorepositories and microfrontends

SmartRecruiters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.