Senior Frontend Engineer, Design System & Frontend Platform

Company Description🚀 SmartRecruiters transforms hiring for the world’s leading enterprises. We deliver an AI-powered hiring platform built for global scale, automating and optimizing the entire talent acquisition process. More than 4,000 companies, including LinkedIn, McDonald's, VISA, CD Projekt Red, Allegro rely on SmartRecruiters to build winning teams. 🚀 In 2025, SmartRecruiters joined SAP, the global leader in enterprise applications. Together, we are accelerating the reinvention of hiring by combining AI innovation with the scale and resources of SAP’s ecosystem.Job DescriptionThis is a platform role for someone who helps many product teams, not just one. Their job is to spot repeated frontend problems across the organization, turn them into shared design system and platform solutions, and make sure teams actually adopt them. They improve consistency, accessibility, and developer efficiency by building reusable foundations, guiding migrations, and scaling improvements through automation.Important: the position is available only under a standard contract of employment with 80% of tax deductible cost.What you’ll doLead design system efforts as part of the frontend platform, building a shared UI foundation that scales across product teamsDiscover recurring needs and friction across product teams, and turn them into reusable components, tooling, and workflowsDefine and maintain shared standards, documentation, contribution models, and governance for UI consistency, accessibility, and long-term maintainabilityDrive alignment, adoption, and migrations across teams, helping replace local patterns with shared solutionsBuild AI-assisted automations and agentic workflows that help scale platform improvements, reduce manual effort, and improve consistency across teamsQualifications:Must have qualifications:Experience building or evolving design systems, shared UI foundations, or frontend platforms used by multiple teamsExperience influencing frontend architecture, standards, or technical decisions beyond a single teamStrong hands-on experience building production frontend applications with modern web technologiesStrong collaboration skills and experience working closely with Engineering and Design partnersSenior-level experience, typically 5+ years in software engineering, with a track record of driving cross-team technical workNice to have qualifications:Experience with Web Components, ideally LitExperience working across Angular environmentsExperience with monorepos, microfrontends, or shared frontend toolingExperience with inner source or platform engineering ways of workingExperience building AI-assisted automations or agentic workflows that improve platform work at scaleBenefits:We support 100% remote work with Wi-Fi reimbursement and an additional stipend for the equipment (the MacBook laptop is provided by us)Unlimited vacation days (yes - it's really unlimited)Private Medical Care for you and your dependents (Luxmed)Wellness Programme (Multisport Card and even more)Company wide shutdowns in August and around ChristmasAdditional informationSmartRecruiters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.