Senior Design Engineer

Our Mission

iSeatz drives enduring brand loyalty through exceptional, connected experiences. Our digital commerce and technology solutions enable travel and lifestyle bookings for the world's leading brands in financial services, travel, and hospitality, including American Express, IHG Hotels & Resorts, Qantas, and more.

We have a history of long‑term trusted relationships and innovation that drives tangible value to our customers through a customizable, scalable, and secure platform, a global third‑party marketplace, and loyalty integration. Our proprietary platform processes over $9B per year in transactions. We aspire to put our customers at the heart of every decision and exceed their expectations with best‑in‑class solutions and business‑value innovations.

The Senior Design Engineer reports to the Design Architect and collaborates with other agile, cross‑functional teams to craft consistent and successful end‑user experiences.

In this role, you will bridge the gap between design and technical implementation by driving holistic front‑end development across products, ensuring design intent is consistently and systematically realized.

• Drive the implementation of holistic development across products, ensuring development aligns with designs.
• Influence and collaborate broadly across product, business, and design teams to promote consistency and scalability.
• Partner closely with Design Architect, Product Designers, Front‑end Architect, Developers, and Product Owners to build and maintain consistent and systemic components.

• Collaborate with product managers to review stories and functional requirements for new features and initiatives.
• Work in an agile environment partnering with product teams, frontend architects, and developers to implement systemic front‑end components and adopt them into the broader company ecosystem.
• Works closely with the Design Architect to ensure the design solutions are implemented systematically.

• Work Ethic:
  Embodiment of the iSeatz core values of Accountability, Disciplined, and Impactful.
• Experience:
  
  At least five years of relevant professional experience contributing to a design system that powers a multi‑tenant white‑label product or website.
• Front-End Development:
  Proficient in HTML5, CSS3, Sass, JavaScript (ES6+), Type Script, and modern frameworks such as React (preferred), Vue, or Angular; skilled in cross-browser compatibility, performance optimization, and semantic coding best practices.
• Accessibility Expertise:
  Deep understanding of WCAG and WAI-ARIA guidelines; experienced in accessible component design, screen reader and keyboard testing, and integrating accessibility into scalable systems.
• Design System & Tooling:
  Experienced with Figma (including plugin and API development), Style Dictionary, Storybook, and Chromatic for managing, documenting, and testing design tokens and components.
• Collaboration & Workflow:
  Skilled in Git/Git Hub, Jira, and Agile methodologies; comfortable working iteratively with cross‑functional, distributed teams; excels in improving dev processes to conform to best practices and code standards.
• Technical Communication & Continuous Learning:
  Strong ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to non-technical audiences and quickly adopt new technologies and tools; portfolio demonstrates system thinking, scalability, and accessibility in code.
• Travel Readiness:
  Willingness to travel approximately once per quarter to engage with teams in a co-located environment.

• Ability to readily admit to mistakes and quickly learn from them to make the product better.
• Ability to solve problems quickly by identifying root causes.
• Self-motivated, eager to seek out problems and establish long-term solutions.
• Understanding that user experience is key above all else, and is best served by partnering with others.
• Excitement about making an impact by accomplishing smart work and reducing complexity.

This role is remote-first and can be located anywhere in the continental United States - feel free to work from your home…