Staff Frontend Engineer - Design Systems

Salary: £70,000 - 105,000 per year

Requirements

• Solid experience building and maintaining component libraries or platform-like products that serve multiple teams
• Experience with TypeScript and modern frontend engineering; React experience is a plus
• Experience designing maintainable systems with clear boundaries, versioning, and backwards compatibility
• Experience with testing practices and tooling, including unit, integration, and end-to-end testing
• Strong quality mindset, with attention to accessibility and performance best practices for UI systems
• Experience collaborating with designers and product engineers and navigating tradeoffs across stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for key parts of Telescope, including architecture, component standards, release practices, and quality bars
• Drive and evolve our contribution model and how teams interact with Design Systems
• Own and improve how requests flow into the team, including triage, prioritisation, and expectations
• Improve the developer and contributor experience through tooling and automation
• Support internal operational needs where relevant
• Improve how we measure and communicate adoption and system health
• Evolve our documentation publishing workflow
• Lead rituals that keep the team effective and aligned
• Represent Design Systems in cross-team initiatives and align stakeholders across Design and Engineering
• Coach and mentor engineers, and help grow technical leadership in the frontend community
• Contribute hands-on in code as part of the role

Technologies

• Flow
• Frontend
• Support
• Mobile
• React
• TypeScript
• Web
• UX UI Design

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We at Pleo are changing spend management by building solutions that make managing money seamless, empowering, and effective for finance teams and employees. Our design system is central to delivering a consistent, accessible, high-quality product experience across web and mobile. We are a driven, progressive, and kind team of 850+ people from over 100 nationalities, serving 40,000+ customers across Europe. This is a full-time hybrid engineering role based in Copenhagen, Lisbon, or London, and we offer benefits including a Pleo card, catered lunch or lunch allowance, comprehensive private healthcare, 25 days of holiday plus public holidays, hybrid and fully remote working options, free mental health and well-being support, and paid parental leave.

last updated 36 week of 2026