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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Frontend Engineer, Design System - **Company:** Synthesia Limited - **Location:** London, UK (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** £67,057.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** HTML, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Browser Compatibility, Responsive Web Design, Screen Reader, TypeScript, User Environment Management, Management of Software Versions, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, Web Performance Optimization, Stylesheet Language, ReactJS, Material UI, Front End Software Development, Api Design - **Published:** August 14, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5841940488 ## About the Role * At least five (5) years as a software engineer, including three (3) at senior level, building frontend platforms, with real ownership of a design system or shared component library used across multiple products. * Deep frontend expertise: expert HTML, CSS and JavaScript/TypeScript, with strong React and familiarity with modern build tooling. * A strong command of component API design, versioning and the developer experience of shared libraries. * Experience (or strong interest) in making component libraries consumable by AI * Solid understanding of responsive design, cross-browser compatibility and web performance. * Comfortable building components to WCAG 2.2 AA / EN 301 549 and verifying them yourself with a keyboard and screen reader - accessibility is part of your definition of done, not a separate pass. * A strong sense of craft and attention to detail, and the ability to balance design intent with engineering constraints. * Strong communication and collaboration skills, and a passion for improving developer productivity and end-user experience. Nice to haves * A strong design sensibility - an eye for visual detail and the judgement to push back on and improve design decisions, not just build them. * Experience implementing multi-brand theming in production. * Experience with localization and internationalization (including RTL) for a global audience. ## Description The defining challenge of this role is making that foundation AI-friendly: a design system that both people and AI can build with. As AI tools generate more of our UI, the system has to make it effortless to produce interfaces that are on-brand, accessible and correct by construction, whether the author is a human or an agent. You can expect to: * Build, scale and evolve our design system: the component library, design tokens, and documentation that give product teams a consistent, accessible foundation to build on. * Extend our design system for AI-assisted development so AI coding tools and agents can use our components, tokens and guidelines as easily as people can, with Storybook as the backbone and machine-readable interfaces (e.g. MCP) layered on top. * Design component APIs that resist misuse, so AI and human developers alike can build with confidence. * Write high-quality, performant frontend code (React/TypeScript) and raise the bar for component craft and consistency across the engineering org. * Partner closely with design, product and engineering to define components together and take them all the way to something that holds up in production. * Make our components accessible by default, meeting WCAG 2.2 AA, and work closely with our Accessibility engineer to bake in best practices from the start. * Own the developer experience of the design system: clear documentation, guidelines, Storybook, sensible component APIs, versioning and smooth migration paths that make adoption easy for both human and AI consumers. * Implement and maintain theming, white labelling, and localization/RTL support so the system works for a global audience. * Continuously improve the system based on adoption metrics, contributor feedback and new platform capabilities. * Shape the technical direction of the design system over the next 6-12 months, championing its adoption across teams., 2. 45min call with an Engineering Manager about your past projects 3. 75min Live Coding interview, a collaboration exercise with our Engineer (not Leetcode style, focus more on good frontend engineering practices) 4. 60min System Design, technical discussion usually about a real problem we had in production (the call will also include our Designer so expect more design system focused discussion) 5. 60min call with leadership, focus on examples of collaboration, growth and going through details of your future team You can find more details on what to expect and how to prepare HERE. 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