Senior Manager, Design Systems Engineer - Verity Solutions, Remote

Cigna
United States
25 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
5 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Artificial Intelligence Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Mobile Application Development Continuous Integration Medical Software Package Management Systems Regression Testing TypeScript Management of Software Versions ReactJS AngularJS
+7 more
Git Flow Material UI Production Code Figma Code Inspection Front End Software Development Restful APIs

Job description

Verity is hiring a founding Senior Manager, Design Systems Engineer to build Verity Canvas, our code-canonical design system for healthcare software. This role sits at the center of Figma, React, accessibility, and production code. You will keep our real codebase and Figma library aligned, turning design decisions into type-safe, accessible components that product teams can trust. As we migrate from Angular to React, you will help build the system that makes our next generation of UI consistent, scalable, and meaningful for the people who rely on it.

Responsibilities

  • Own the @verity/ui component library as a versioned package built on accessible headless primitives and styled through design tokens.

  • Build and maintain the @verity/tokens pipeline from DTCG design tokens through Style Dictionary, CSS custom properties, and typed output.

  • Create a code-to-Figma token workflow using Figma Variables, staging files, and review practices that prevent silent design drift.

  • Author Code Connect mappings so Figma Dev Mode and coding agents generate real @verity/ui components instead of generic markup.

  • Define the AI-ready system surface, including MCP context, component manifests, registries, repo guidance, and agent evaluation workflows.

  • Strengthen CI quality gates for accessibility, visual regression, app-level regression, linting, and code ownership.

  • Manage release discipline through Changesets, semantic versioning, API contract checks, and migration-ready codemods.

  • Partner with designers and product teams on Figma conventions, adoption, governance, promotion, and deprecation workflows.

Requirements

  • Minimum 5+ years of experience building front-end systems, design systems, or component libraries with React and TypeScript.

  • Experience designing typed component APIs and shipping a design system as a published package used by other teams.

  • Hands-on experience with Figma Dev Mode, variables, and Code Connect, or similar design-to-code workflows.

  • Experience building design token pipelines using DTCG formats and tools such as Style Dictionary or Tokens Studio.

  • Strong accessibility expertise, including ARIA, keyboard interaction, focus management, and automated checks such as axe.

  • Experience with Storybook, visual regression testing, CI/CD, modern Git workflows, and package management in monorepos.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with Base UI, Radix, React Aria, Ariakit, or similar headless primitive libraries.

  • Experience with pnpm workspaces, Turborepo, Changesets, semver, API Extractor, or type-aware codemods.

  • Experience with AI-native development workflows, MCP tooling, coding agents, registries, or agent evaluation harnesses.

  • Experience pushing tokens from code into Figma or working with the Figma Variables REST API.

  • Experience in healthcare, regulated environments, or products where accessibility and precision are essential.

About the company

Doing something meaningful starts with a simple decision, a commitment to changing lives. At The Cigna Group, we’re dedicated to improving the health and vitality of those we serve. Through our divisions Cigna Healthcare and Evernorth Health Services, we are committed to enhancing the lives of our clients, customers and patients. Join us in driving growth and improving lives., The Cigna Group has a tobacco-free policy and reserves the right not to hire tobacco/nicotine users in states where that is legally permissible. Candidates in such states who use tobacco/nicotine will not be considered for employment unless they enter a qualifying smoking cessation program prior to the start of their employment. These states include: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Washington State.

Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with all federal, state and local ordinances.

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