Senior Design Engineer, Design Systems

The Team

XD Design Engineering is a small team of engineers with a big mandate: to develop, maintain, and innovate the Design Platform central to Netflix’s product development lifecycle.  Our goal is to improve product development velocity without compromising on fidelity and to increase efficiency of the design/engineering handoff.  Our portfolio includes API services, web apps, and Figma Plugins, serving a diverse range of cross-functional partners, from product designers and project managers to software engineers.

The Role

In this high-impact role, you’ll work on a portfolio of productivity tools and automations designed to accelerate the product design lifecycle at Netflix.  You’ll collaborate closely with system designers and engineers, to contribute to the distribution and adoption of the Design System.  You'll drive medium-to-large features end-to-end and communicate progress and impact to your team and partners.  You will also gather input from stakeholders, identifying opportunities to help inform prioritization of features that continuously evolves the design capabilities portfolio to ensure it remains best-in-class.

Responsibilities

• Contributing, maintaining, and expanding critical design component libraries and capabilities supporting hundreds of internal users (React)

• Implementing AI solutions, when appropriate, that measurably accelerate product design workflows

• Execute on projects, working from ideation to implementation to rollout

• Participating internal user-research to gather insights to inform prioritization and feature development

• Completing medium to large features independently with limited guidance

• Help triage and resolve support requests related to the Design System portfolio

• Work with designers and engineers across other teams to maintain the integrity and reliability of the Design System portfolio.

• Participate in on-call rotation to continue to meet our critical SLAs

• Participate in design and code reviews

Who You Are

• 3+ years of professional experience designing, building, and shipping software

• Experience with single page applications architecture, patterns, and design

• Experience fetching data from GraphQL and REST APIs

• Experience with client-side instrumentation and observability

• Ability to drive features and communicate effectively with your team and partners

• Able to contribute to design, architect, debug, test, and create well-documented code

• Proficient in JavaScript/TypeScript, React, and Node.js

What Sets You Apart

• You’re known for your excellent communication skills (written and verbal)

• You have an ownership mentality in all the things you build and are comfortable with identifying improvements and proposing them to your team

• You take a thoughtful, practical approach to problem-solving that considers tradeoffs and avoids over-engineering

• You’re motivated by the scope and impact to contribute to discussions that shape the future of design workflows

• You’re data driven and lean on both qualitative and quantitative data to drive your decision making

• You have a strong intuition for user experience flows

• Experience managing web applications with complex state management

• Current/former professional experience working with Figma Plugins

• Bonus if you’ve contributed to open-source projects