Hiring: Staff Frontend Engineer - Design Systems Company: Verkada Location: San Mateo, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 12:19:25 Employment Type: Full-time Target Skills & Keywords : Accessibility, CSS, Design System, Figma, React, Responsive Design, Storybook, TypeScript, UI/UX, WCAG, a11y About the job Experience: •4+ years of relevant industry experience in front-end web development with a strong focus on UI/UX. •Expertise working with modern web technologies, specifically React, TypeScript, and modern styling solutions (e.g., CSS-in-JS, CSS Modules). •Demonstrated success in building, maintaining, or significantly contributing to design systems, component libraries, or comprehensive UI frameworks. •Tooling proficiency: Deep experience with component-driven development and documentation tools like Storybook. •Accessibility focus: Strong, practical knowledge of web accessibility standards (ARIA, WCAG) and how to build compliant components. Required Skills: •Evolve the Design System: Collaborate with engineering leadership to develop and scale our centralized, React-based component library, ensuring it remains highly reusable and easy to consume. •Bridge Design and Engineering: Partner deeply with the Product Design team to translate design visions and Figma tokens into robust, pixel-perfect, and interactive web components. •Empower product engineering: Support, collaborate with, and mentor engineers across 8+ distinct product teams, driving system adoption and helping them implement UI best practices. •Champion Accessibility (a11y): Advocate for and implement strict accessibility standards (WCAG) across all shared components, ensuring our enterprise products are inclusive and usable by everyone. •Ensure UI Quality and Performance: Write comprehensive automated tests (unit, visual regression) for components, and optimize UI rendering performance for complex single-page applications. •Drive Documentation and Tooling: Maintain excellent documentation (e.g., via Storybook) and usage guidelines, making it frictionless for product teams to discover and implement components. •Contribute to the Broader Platform: Ensure the design system integrates seamlessly into our massive microfrontend architecture, with opportunities to contribute to core frontend tooling and infrastructure as needed. Qualifications: •Degree in Computer Science, HCI, or a similar technical/design field of study. Compensation: •$185,000 - $265,000 / year •Nationwide medical, vision and dental coverage Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!