Sr Front End Developer

Job Summary Our West Michigan Client is looking for a Sr Front End Developer with experience in IBM’s Carbon Design System. This can be a remote role working EST hours.

location: Telecommute

job type: Contract

salary: $45 - 57 per hour

work hours: 8am to 5pm

education: Bachelors

Responsibilities We are seeking a Senior Contract Front-End Developer to complete the technical implementation of an internal design system based on IBM’s open-source Carbon Design System. The design system is being customized to reflect our visual identity and support new internal web and mobile application work.

This is a defined contractor engagement focused on evaluating Carbon’s available open-source implementation, creating a maintainable styling and theming layer, placing the necessary code in an approved Meijer repository, and providing stand-alone technical guidance for future adopters and contributors. The engagement does not include rebuilding or remediating existing internal applications.

The ideal contractor has 5 to 10 years of relevant front-end development experience, including direct experience building, extending, or maintaining a production design system or reusable component library.

Project Scope and Deliverables

The contractor will establish the technical implementation of Meijer’s Carbon-based design system. Deliverables include:

• Assess Carbon’s open-source implementation and recommend an appropriate technical approach.
• Translate approved Figma variables and tokens into a maintainable Meijer styling or theming layer.
• Establish a repeatable method for teams to use Carbon components with Meijer styles.
• Implement the agreed component scope, with focused attention on the Data Table and approximately three to five custom components.
• Preserve accessibility, performance, and maintainability throughout the implementation.
• Store and organize the code in an approved Meijer repository with an appropriate approach for consumption, versioning, testing, and updates.
• Create stand-alone Getting Started / How to Use documentation, implementation examples, and contribution guidance.
• Validate the approach with representative developers and transfer the knowledge needed to use and extend the system after the engagement concludes.

Required Experience and Skills

• 5 to 10 years of relevant front-end development experience.
• Demonstrated experience building, extending, or maintaining a production design system or reusable component library.
• Strong proficiency with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript or TypeScript.
• Strong understanding of modern CSS architecture, including custom properties, tokens, themes, responsive behavior, component states, and maintainable styling strategies.
• Experience consuming, adapting, or extending an open-source component library.
• Experience implementing design tokens across design and development environments.
• Experience with React, component-based front-end development, and modern build and package-management practices.
• Experience creating reusable technical assets that can be adopted across multiple products or teams.
• Strong knowledge of web accessibility and experience implementing accessible interactive components.
• Experience with appropriate component, accessibility, and front-end quality testing practices.
• Experience establishing or maintaining source repositories for shared technical assets.
• Experience writing stand-alone technical documentation for developers.
• Ability to assess an existing implementation and recommend a practical, maintainable architecture.
• Ability to translate Figma specifications, variables, tokens, component states, and interaction intent into code.
• Strong attention to code quality, organization, performance, maintainability, and clear technical communication.

Preferred Experience

• Direct experience with IBM’s Carbon Design System.
• Experience theming Carbon or a comparable open-source design system.
• Experience supporting design-system adoption across teams using multiple development frameworks.
• Experience with enterprise or internal operational applications.
• Experience implementing complex data-heavy components, particularly Data Tables.
• Experience with component documentation environments such as Storybook.
• Experience distributing shared styles or components through internal packages.
• Experience with visual regression testing.
• Experience defini…