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# (Senior) Design System Engineer

- **Company:** Zeal Network
- **Location:** Hamburg, Germany
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Adaptive Design, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Software Quality, Design of User Interfaces, TypeScript, Management of Software Versions, Swiftui, Kotlin, AngularJS, Jetpack Compose, Figma, Front End Software Development, Api Design
- **Published:** September 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=5684f997dc5078d8

## About the Role

* Several years as a frontend or mobile engineer, including hands-on ownership of a design system or shared component library used by multiple teams.
 * TypeScript and Angular skills or comparable depth in another modern framework / library and a clear willingness to go all in on Angular plus a sharp instinct for component API design.
 * Hands-on native UI development with Kotlin/Jetpack Compose or Swift/SwiftUI. You will author native components yourself. Strong expertise in one platform, combined with an interest in developing a working knowledge of the other, is perfectly fine.
 * Experience with design tokens and theming multi-brand environments: building one system that carries several brands without forking.
 * A strong grasp of responsive and adaptive design and of accessibility standards, and the habit of verifying both in practice.
 * A product mindset toward internal tooling, you treat the design system and component libraries as a product with users and measure success by adoption. You enjoy enabling other teams and building consensus across engineering and design.

## Description

* Evolve, expand and maintain our component libraries on all our platforms (iOS, Android and Web): Angular, Jetpack Compose, SwiftUI fed by a shared design system.
 * Partner closely with our UI/UX designers on component APIs, naming, states, and variants, keeping our code in sync with our Figma library - closing the gap between what is designed and what ships.
 * Define the system's architecture: theming and brand layering, versioning, releases, and a contribution model that invites our domain teams in rather than shutting them out.
 * Maintain living documentation (e.g. Storybook) and drive adoption through pairing, reviews, and migration paths.
 * Make accessibility and responsive behavior built-in properties of our components, not an afterthought.
 * Adopt agentic coding practices and use AI coding agents to accelerate development, while maintaining ownership of technical decisions, code quality, and outcomes.


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