Principal Software Engineer (design Systems)

At Deputy, we empower businesses to build thriving workplaces - ones where staff are engaged, customers are served well, businesses are legally compliant, and companies’ profits thrive. Our reach extends across 100+ countries worldwide, serving more than 330,000 workplaces. 

Deputy is a global SaaS workforce management company headquartered in Sydney, San Francisco, and London, backed by top investors and recently surpassed $100m in annual recurring revenue. We've helped millions of workers across industries and aim to empower 80% of the global workforce. If you're passionate about improving the world of work, one shift a time, join us at Deputy and help shape the future of hourly employment!

Here at Deputy, we know that diverse perspectives foster the innovation we need to be successful, and we are committed to building a team that encompasses a variety of backgrounds, experiences, and skills.

We’re seeking a highly skilled and visionary Principal Engineer to drive the growth and impact of our design system, Copilot. In this key role, you’ll partner closely with the design lead to ensure a smooth and seamless transition from design to code, fostering collaboration between design and engineering.

You’ll play a crucial role in driving to ensure that our front-end experiences are of the highest quality—intuitive, delightful, and consistent for our customers. As an advocate for the design system, you’ll evangelise its benefits, ensuring that our engineering teams are informed, up-to-date, and inspired by the frontend design strategy. Together, we’ll build cohesive, exceptional user experiences while driving innovation in our processes.

You wake up every morning knowing with confidence that your work is being used to power 365,000 workplaces and the livelihood of millions of users worldwide.

Responsibilities

• Strategy: Lead the design and development of a comprehensive component library in Vue.js, focusing on reusable, maintainable, and scalable components to underpin and support the design system vision.
• Implementation: Lead the creation and implementation, and continuous improvement of reusable components, technical resources, tools, onboarding and documentation.
• You are a clear and proactive communicator and can articulate your ideas when writing and speaking.
• You take initiative and call for support when you need it. Ability to lead by example, rolling up your sleeves to “show the way”
• You value good design, have an eye for detail, and can interpret technical concepts to a non-technical audience.
• Foster team alignment and collaboration on technical decisions to ensure a cohesive direction.
• Create a culture where feedback is welcomed, allowing the team to challenge and improve ideas collectively. Create an environment where team members feel comfortable sharing their ideas and opinions.
• Provide a framework for accessibility and inclusion in both the design and development process.
• Design, implement and deliver reusable components for product features - with consideration to high performance, high-quality systems and applications using modern industry best practices.
• Influence and problem-solve with senior, mid, and junior engineers to deliver high-quality outcomes. This role may not have direct reports, but your leadership and mentorship will drive the squads to successful outcomes.
• Ensure reliability and quality of the Design System through automated tooling like linters and tests.
• Write simple, efficient, self-documented modular high-quality code that follows best practices.
• Engage in technical discussion of solutions and process improvement through documentation, design reviews, pair programming, code review and technology discussions.
• Share your expertise through documentation, design reviews, code contributions, presentations and technology discussions.

Skills & Experience

• 10+ years in frontend development including significant time in a leadership or principal role
• Deep SaaS experience across multiple domains or problem spaces
• Have created a multi-year technical vision and seen it through to fruition through the deployment of solid communication skills
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to clearly articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders and contribute to architectural decision-making.
• Are able to introduce new technologies or practices to a large engineering function and ensure successful take-up through advocacy, education and governance
• Proven ability to shape architectural strategies and drive technical innovation.
• Execute on strategic direction including shifts in technology and paradigms.