Senior Design System Engineer

Category Software Engineering

Location
Mountain View, California; New York, New York
Job ID 21445

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Company Overview

Intuit is the global financial technology platform that powers prosperity for the people and communities we serve. With approximately 100 million customers worldwide using products such as TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp, we believe that everyone should have the opportunity to prosper. We never stop working to find new, innovative ways to make that possible.

Job Overview

We’re looking for a creative and enthusiastic Senior Design System Engineer to join our Design Technology group. A design system engineer is a full stack developer who lives at the intersection of technology-driven innovation and human-centric design. Unlike a traditional front-end role focused on building individual product features, you will be building the foundational UI infrastructure that empowers hundreds of engineers across the company. As a design system engineer at Intuit, you will advocate for content strategy, creative directions, and engineering complexities.

We're looking for dependable engineers who bring new ideas from all areas, including large-scale system design, artificial intelligence, UI design, motion, and accessibility. You will be expected to architect highly scalable, performant component libraries while leveraging the latest generative AI tools (like GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or Claude Code) to accelerate development and bridge the gap between Figma and code. If you’re ready to create bold, delightful, and globally scalable solutions that power prosperity around the globe, we want to hear from you.

You must love

• Thinking in "systems" and abstract patterns rather than one-off pages or single-use features.
• Obsessing over intuitive component design and developer experience.
• Customer-centered design processes and emotionally connecting with customers.
• Facing challenging problems independently and optimizing code for maximum performance at scale.
• Inspiring others to aim for bigger, bolder, and smarter.
• Agile and experiment-driven development.
• Collaborating, communicating, and presenting across multiple engineering and design teams.
• Continuously learning and adopting AI-augmented workflows to eliminate repetitive tasks and focus on high-impact systems architecture.

Responsibilities

Architect for Scale: Lead the technical design of complex features and make sound architectural decisions for the QuickBooks Design System, ensuring the code is suited for scaling and rapid iteration.

Drive Component Strategy & Execution: Partner with cross-functional product, design, and engineering teams to shape priorities based on real customer behavior and business goals. Take full responsibility for successfully delivering major features by reliably estimating complex work, resolving dependencies, and managing risks.

Optimize Performance: Create durable technical examples and patterns, and drive best practices adoption (including testing and observability) to rigorously optimize component rendering performance.

Bridge the Gap: Act as a crucial link between designers and developers by translating design tokens into scalable code architectures and resolving technical constraints using our values and best practices.

Drive Developer Experience (DX): Manage the distribution of the component library and eliminate systematic roadblocks through cross-functional influence to ensure a flawless upgrade path.

Champion Accessibility: Rigorously test components in many different environments to ensure WCAG 2.1+ compliance, shaping execution practices to maintain quality standards throughout the development cycle.

Accelerate the Team: Improve the abilities of your team by mentoring team members, providing clarity on ambiguities, sharing feedback on best practices, and reviewing learning plans.

Innovate with AI: Lead technology and design evaluation, applying AI Native principles to harness AI-driven pipelines and scale the design system while considering the long-term implications of AI integration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Human-Computer interaction, Design, or a related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• Proven experience independently building, maintaining, and scaling a widely consumed component library, design system, or open-source UI framework.
• Deep knowledge of front-end performance optimization techniques and the ability to solve complex, ambiguous technical bugs that may require reaching outside your team for knowledge.
• Working knowledge of React, TypeScript, Git, Figma, and component documentation platforms (like Storybook).
• Expert knowledge of CSS, common CSS tooling, and headless UI ecosystems, with the ability to lead the delivery of scalable, durable solutions from end to end.
• Strong understanding of accessibility principles, including ARIA guidelines, WCAG success criteria, and screen reader technologies.
• A strong point of view, backed up by personal expertise, deep customer insight (usage data, feedback), design rationale, and industry trends.
• A portfolio or GitHub profile showcasing professional creative work, open-source contributions, or systems-level engineering.
• Fluency in AI Native principles and strong familiarity with modern AI coding assistants to optimize daily development workflows and improve team capabilities.

Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. This position may be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs (see more about our compensation and benefits at Intuit®: Careers | Benefits). Pay offered is based on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location. To drive ongoing fair pay for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender. The expected base pay range for this position is:

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