Senior iOS Software Engineer, Design Systems

Senior iOS Software Engineer, Design Systems

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For this role, we are currently only authorized to hire candidates from the following provinces:
Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario, and Saskatchewan.

Dropbox isn’t just a workplace—it’s a living lab for more enlightened ways of working. We're a global community of bold visionaries and resourceful doers who are shaping the future of Dropbox—and with it the future of work. Our Virtual First model combines the autonomy of a distributed workplace with the power of human connection, making space for both meaningful work and meaningful relationships.

With our start‑up mindset and enterprise‑level opportunities, you can be who you are and grow into who you’re meant to be. Here, you can own your impact to make work more intuitive, joyful, and human—for you as a Dropboxer and for hundreds of millions of people worldwide. If you're ready to push boundaries—and yourself—Dropbox is ready for you.

The Dropbox Engineering Team builds the technology that creates more enlightened ways of working for hundreds of millions of people. Every day, our platforms—including Dropbox Dash, Dropbox Sign, and our core sync engine—handle over a billion files for users worldwide, creating engineering challenges as great as the opportunity for impact. Our software engineering team uses a range of technologies to solve interesting problems, including Python, React, Node.js,

JavaScript, Mongo

DB, Postgre

SQL, and Android development. We think like a startup but build for an enterprise, exploring new possibilities that transform how people work.

As a Senior iOS Engineer on the Design System Team, you will play a central role in enabling consistent, scalable, and delightful product experiences across our native applications. You will help define and evolve our design system foundations, ensuring engineers and designers can build with speed, quality, and cohesion. In this role, you’ll gain exposure to senior leadership, influence design and engineering practices across teams, and contribute to the evolution of a system that empowers millions of users.

• System foundations:
  Building reusable iOS components and frameworks that serve as the backbone of our product experience.
• Collaboration & advocacy:
  Partnering with designers, Android peers, and product engineers to ensure multi‑platform design system cohesion and adoption.
• Scalability & innovation:
  Driving long‑term architecture, accessibility, and performance standards that support product growth at scale.
• Developer experience:
  Improving documentation, workflows, and tooling to make using the design system frictionless for engineers.

• Build, maintain, and evolve Dropbox’s DIG design system iOS component library using Swift, Swift
  
  UI, and UIKit.
• Translate Figma designs and tokens into accurate, maintainable UI components.
• Collaborate with cross‑platform peers (Android, Web) to ensure consistency and parity.
• Define and maintain versioning, governance, and release processes for design system components.
• Improve internal documentation, onboarding, and tooling to accelerate adoption.
• Provide support and advocacy across product teams via code reviews, pairing, and developer experience improvements.
• Ensure design system components meet accessibility, performance, and testability standards.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (e.g., Physics or Mathematics), or equivalent technical experience.
• 8+ years of professional iOS development experience with proven contributions to shared UI libraries or design systems.
• Strong proficiency in Swift, Swift
  
  UI, and UIKit; familiarity with modern paradigms (Combine, Swift Concurrency, MVVM).
• Solid understanding of Apple HIG and accessibility (WCAG) standards.
• Experience with design‑to‑code workflows (e.g., Figma tokens, variables, tooling integrations).
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with ability to align engineers and designers.
• Track record of writing clean, maintainable, and testable…