Senior Frontend Engineer, Design System & Frontend Platform

SmartRecruiters delivers an AI-powered hiring platform built for global scale, automating and optimizing the entire talent acquisition process. The company serves over 4,000 clients including LinkedIn, McDonald's, VISA, CD Projekt Red, and Allegro. In 2025, SmartRecruiters joined SAP to accelerate hiring innovation by combining AI with SAP's enterprise ecosystem. The R&D structure is based on empowered product teams responsible for business outcomes and autonomous problem solving.

• Experience building or evolving design systems, shared UI foundations, or frontend platforms used by multiple teams
• Experience influencing frontend architecture, standards, or technical decisions beyond a single team
• Strong hands-on experience building production frontend applications with modern web technologies
• Strong collaboration skills and experience working closely with Engineering and Design partners
• Senior-level experience, typically 5+ years in software engineering, with a track record of driving cross-team technical work

Nice to have:

• Experience with Web Components, ideally Lit
• Experience working across Angular environments
• Experience with monorepos, microfrontends, or shared frontend tooling
• Experience with inner source or platform engineering ways of working
• Experience building AI-assisted automations or agentic workflows that improve platform work at scale
• Understanding of automated accessibility tooling and CI integrations
• Exposure to inner source practices and platform engineering work

• Lead design system efforts as part of the frontend platform, building a shared UI foundation that scales across product teams
• Discover recurring needs and friction across product teams, and turn them into reusable components, tooling, and workflows
• Define and maintain shared standards, documentation, contribution models, and governance for UI consistency, accessibility, and long-term maintainability
• Drive alignment, adoption, and migrations across teams, helping replace local patterns with shared solutions
• Build AI-assisted automations and agentic workflows that help scale platform improvements, reduce manual effort, and improve consistency across teams

The position is available only under a standard contract of employment with 80% of tax deductible cost.