Lead Systems Design Engineer - #2088037

MCS Group | Your Specialist Recruitment Consultancy


Date: 3 hours ago
City: Belfast
Contract type: Full time
Work schedule: Full day
MCS Group | Your Specialist Recruitment Consultancy

Lead Design Systems Engineer

Belfast | Hybrid

MCS Group is exclusively supporting an innovative Belfast technology company as they look to appoint a Lead Design Systems Engineer to their growing engineering team.

This is a unique opportunity for an experienced Frontend Engineer who enjoys creating high-quality user experiences and building the foundations that product teams rely on every day.

You'll take ownership of a shared design system and component library used across multiple products, working closely with designers and engineers to ensure consistency, accessibility and exceptional implementation quality.

What you'll be doing:

* Building and maintaining reusable React and TypeScript components
* Owning and evolving a company-wide design system
* Translating Storybook and Figma specifications into production-ready code
* Driving consistency across multiple products and engineering teams
* Implementing accessibility best practices and visual regression testing
* Managing component versioning and release processes
* Mentoring engineers and promoting frontend best practices

What we're looking for:

* Strong commercial experience with React and TypeScript
* Experience building or maintaining design systems and component libraries
* Strong understanding of Storybook and modern frontend development practices
* Experience working closely with designers and interpreting Figma designs
* Knowledge of accessibility standards and inclusive design
* Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

What's on offer:

* Hybrid working in Belfast
* Opportunity to shape the frontend foundations of a growing product company
* Work on innovative AI-powered products
* EMI share options
* 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
* Early finish every Friday
* Additional company-wide days off throughout the year
* Collaborative engineering culture with genuine influence on technical direction

Unfortunately sponsorship is not available for this position.

To find out more, apply now or contact Djay Erskine at MCS Group for a confidential discussion.

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