Senior Front-End Developer, Design Systems

Job Description Are you a highly experienced Front-End Developer with a passion for building robust and scalable design systems? Do you thrive on creating elegant and efficient solutions that empower product teams to deliver exceptional user experiences? We’re looking for a Senior Front-End Developer to join our team in evolving our design system.

In this role, you’ll be a key player in shaping our digital products, working with a modern tech stack to build and maintain the core components and guidelines that our product teams rely on. Your expertise will be crucial in ensuring consistency, quality, and efficiency across all our applications. You’ll be working closely with a talented team of designers and developers to bring our vision to life.

What You’ll Do

• Lead development and evolution of our design system, focusing on reusability, scalability, and maintainability.
• Architect and implement web components that serve as the building blocks for our user interfaces.
• Drive advanced theming solutions to support various brand identities and user preferences, leveraging CSS variables, variable stacking, and sophisticated color systems.
• Manage the full lifecycle of design system components, from development to production deployment, versioning, and ongoing maintenance.
• Oversee library and package dependency management, ensuring a stable and efficient development environment.
• Collaborate closely with design, product, and other engineering teams to translate design principles into technical solutions.
• Champion best practices in front-end development, performance, and accessibility.
• Mentor and guide other developers on design system principles and implementation.
• Develop, collaborate and maintain solid documentation components and guidelines for designers and developers.
• Create working code demonstrations to showcase component usage and capabilities.

What You’ll Bring

• 8+ years of experience as a Front-End Developer, with a significant focus on design system development.
• Expert-level proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript.
• Deep expertise in modern front-end frameworks, including Angular and React.
• Mastery of CSS, including pre-processors, advanced styling techniques, CSS variables, variable stacking, and robust color systems.
• Extensive experience with Web Components and their application in large-scale systems.
• Proven track record in scaling design systems, managing complex theming architectures, and ensuring smooth production deployments.
• Strong understanding of version management and library dependency management within a component library context.
• Experience with packaged version control for design system assets.
• A passion for solid documentation and creating working code demonstrations that clearly illustrate component usage.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Demonstrates a sharp eye for visual and interactive detail, a solid grasp of user interaction patterns, and excels at collaborating with designers to seamlessly translate design intent into intuitive, user-focused solutions.

Bonus Points For

• Experience in the Financial Services or FinTech industry. Contributions to open-source design systems or component libraries.
• Demonstrates a keen sense of design aesthetics.
• Possesses experience collaborating with UX designers.
• Holds advanced expertise in interaction design principles.
• Experience leveraging AI to empower yours and others work.
• If you’re a self-starter who is passionate about creating elegant and performant user interfaces, and you’re ready to make a significant impact on our product development, we encourage you to apply!

BNY assesses market data to ensure a competitive compensation package for our employees. The base salary for this position is expected to be between $95,000 and $209,000 per year at the commencement of employment. However, base salary if hired will be determined on an individualized basis, including as to experience and market location, and is only part of the BNY total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, discretionary bonuses, short and long-term incentive packages, and Company-sponsored benefit programs.

This position is at-will and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment o…