Senior Design System Engineer

Overview

We’re looking for a creative and enthusiastic Senior Design System Engineer to join our Design Technology group. A design system engineer is a full stack developer who lives at the intersection of technology-driven innovation and human-centric design. Unlike a traditional front‑end role focused on building individual product features, you will be building the foundational UI infrastructure that empowers hundreds of engineers across the company.

As a design system engineer at Intuit, you will advocate for content strategy, creative directions, and engineering complexities.

We’re looking for dependable engineers who bring new ideas from all areas, including large‑scale system design, artificial intelligence, UI design, motion, and accessibility. You will be expected to architect highly scalable, performant component libraries while leveraging the latest generative AI tools (like Git Hub Copilot, Cursor, or Claude Code) to accelerate development and bridge the gap between Figma and code. If you’re ready to create bold, delightful, and globally scalable solutions that power prosperity around the globe, we want to hear from you.

• Thinking in "systems" and abstract patterns rather than one‑off pages or single‑use features.
• Obsessing over intuitive component design and developer experience.
• Customer‑centered design processes and emotionally connecting with customers.
• Facing challenging problems independently and optimizing code for maximum performance at scale.
• Inspiring others to aim for bigger, bolder, and smarter.
• Agile and experiment‑driven development.
• Collaborating, communicating, and presenting across multiple engineering and design teams.
• Continuously learning and adopting AI‑augmented workflows to eliminate repetitive tasks and focus on high‑impact systems architecture.

Architect for Scale:
Lead the technical design of complex features and make sound architectural decisions for the Quick Books Design System, ensuring the code is suited for scaling and rapid iteration.

Drive Component Strategy & Execution:
Partner with cross‑functional product, design, and engineering teams to shape priorities based on real customer behavior and business goals. Take full responsibility for successfully delivering major features by reliably estimating complex work, resolving dependencies, and managing risks.

Optimize Performance:
Create durable technical examples and patterns, and drive best practices adoption (including testing and observability) to rigorously optimize component rendering performance.

Bridge the Gap:
Act as a crucial link between designers and developers by translating design tokens into scalable code architectures and resolving technical constraints using our values and best practices.

Drive Developer Experience (DX):
Manage the distribution of the component library and eliminate systematic roadblocks through cross‑functional influence to ensure a flawless upgrade path.

Champion Accessibility:
Rigorously test components in many different environments to ensure WCAG 2.1+ compliance, shaping execution practices to maintain quality standards throughout the development cycle.

Accelerate the Team:
Improve the abilities of your team by mentoring team members, providing clarity on ambiguities, sharing feedback on best practices, and reviewing learning plans.

Innovate with AI:
Lead technology and design evaluation, applying AI Native principles to harness AI‑driven pipelines and scale the design system while considering the long‑term implications of AI integration.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Human‑Computer interaction, Design, or a related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• Proven experience independently building, maintaining, and scaling a widely consumed component library, design system, or open‑source UI framework.
• Deep knowledge of front‑end performance optimization techniques and the ability to solve complex, ambiguous technical bugs that may require reaching outside your team for knowledge.
• Working knowledge of React, Type Script, Git, Figma, and component documentation platforms (like Storybook).
• Expert knowledge of CSS, common CSS…