This role offers the opportunity to shape the Design System from an early stage, defining its technical foundations, engineering standards, and ways of working. In close partnership with Product, Design, and Engineering leadership, the Senior Staff Engineer drives technical alignment, contribution models, and adoption across teams. As a hands-on technical leader, this person builds and validates solutions, improves development workflows, explores AI-assisted engineering practices, and mentors engineers to support a sustainable, widely adopted Design System.
Essential Responsibilities
Architect and build the technical foundations of Amplify’s next-generation Design System, including reusable component libraries, design tokens, and frontend infrastructure that support consistent brand expression across Amplify products.
Partner with Design, Product, and Engineering leads to align technical strategy, priorities, and implementation approaches across teams.
Build relationships with stakeholders across Amplify, proactively identifying dependencies, navigating competing requirements, and communicating technical decisions and tradeoffs.
Lead cross-team technical discussions, build consensus around shared standards, and drive Design System adoption across products without direct reporting authority.
Collaborate with Product Designers to translate design standards and component contracts into scalable, maintainable, and accessible implementations.
Establish engineering standards, implementation patterns, and code quality practices that support consistency, accessibility, and maintainability across products and platforms.
Develop and maintain design system infrastructure, including repositories, component documentation, release processes, and contribution workflows that enable engineering teams to adopt and extend shared systems.
Explore and implement AI-assisted development workflows to improve the efficiency and quality of component development, testing, and documentation.
Provide technical mentorship, architectural guidance, and code review support to engineers implementing Design System standards.
Help establish and lead technical governance processes, balancing consistency and shared standards with product-specific requirements, technical constraints, performance, and business needs.
Required Qualifications
8+ years of relevant work experience. Relevant fields include
Front-end Developer
UI Engineer
Design Technologist
Design engineer
Fluent in
Modern React, TypeScript, and JavaScript
Semantic HTML, CSS, and responsive design
Design systems architecture, reusable UI components, and design tokens
Figma for design-to-code workflows
Git and collaborative software development
Frontend build tools, component packaging, and testing
Web accessibility standards (WCAG) and accessible interaction patterns
Scalable frontend architecture across multiple applications and technology stacks
Body of work demonstrating experience building polished user interfaces, responsive layouts, and web apps. At least some of the examples should be built with React.
Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional technical initiatives, influencing engineering decisions across teams, and managing stakeholders with competing priorities.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with design in education technology or a related field
Storybook or similar component documentation and development tools
Familiarity with CSS custom properties, design tokens, and token-driven styling architectures
Familiarity with scalable CSS methodologies
Familiarity with contract-based design systems and component contracts
Redux and state management
Building, publishing and maintaining Figma UI component libraries
Building AI skills and modern token-driven design systems
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