Design Systems Architect

# Design Systems Architect Apply
** Job#: 3043139
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* Job Description:

** Design Systems Architect
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* Location:

** Greenwood Village, Colorado (Onsite)

Role Overview We are seeking a Design Systems Architect with a focus on React. This role is centered on systems-level frontend engineering, architecture, and developer enablement. You will join a team responsible for building and maintaining frontend tooling used across numerous applications. The position involves maintaining and evolving a complex React component ecosystem, solving difficult frontend challenges, and building tools that other developers rely on.

This is an opportunity for a senior or principal-level engineer with a strong architecture mindset to work on complex systems problems and contribute to the foundation of developer tooling.

Key Responsibilities
* Maintain and grow the React component library, ensuring the quality of implementations that product teams depend on daily.
* Build relationships with internal teams to understand their pain points and champion their needs back into the system.
* Influence component specifications by providing feedback on API design and real-world usage to shape best practices.
* Partner with system designers to translate design intent into React implementations and provide feedback on technical constraints and opportunities.
* Champion the developer experience by proposing API shapes, naming conventions, and composition patterns.
* Ensure the React component library remains in parity with the broader design system, closing any gaps in functionality or interaction support.
* Participate in component proposals and provide a React-specific perspective on cross-cutting decisions.
* Engage in hands-on daily development using Type Script, React, and related testing and documentation tools.

Required Qualifications
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* Experience:

*** Proven experience as a senior or principal-level engineer with a systems-thinking mindset and strong architectural depth.
* Demonstrated experience building tools, frameworks, or libraries used by other developers.
* Experience in systems design, research-oriented problem-solving, and solving novel technical problems.
* Experience with React and an interest in learning and working with its internal mechanics.
** Technical

Skills:

*** Proficiency in frontend development with a focus on systems-level engineering rather than application page-building.
* Ability to write clear and concise documentation, including change logs, prop documentation, and architecture notes.
* Familiarity with consuming and integrating token-based design systems.

Preferred Qualifications
* Experience shipping tooling that other developers use, with an understanding of composition tradeoffs and library maintenance.
* Background in languages such as C, C++, C#, or Java is considered a strong plus due to the engineering rigor associated with them.
* Previous experience with design systems, component libraries, or framework and platform engineering.
* Curiosity about how different frameworks operate and the ability to recognize patterns across paradigms.
* A collaborative approach to accessibility and experience implementing guidance from accessibility experts.

Work Environment This position requires being onsite four days a week. You will join a team of experts focused on solving complex frontend problems through creative architecture and execution. The environment is collaborative, with a strong emphasis on learning from teammates and contributing to a system that is greater than the sum of its parts. The interview process is designed to be a practical, collaborative design exercise focused on your thought process and problem-solving abilities.

For this role, the compensation range is $60.00 to $80.00 per hour. The offered rate will be determined based on factors such as experience, skills, and qualifications.

Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a Support Linc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts.

In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach.

You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our ‘Welcome…