Job Summary:
BNY is a leading global financial services company influencing nearly 20% of the world’s investible assets. They are seeking a Senior Front-End Developer to lead the development and evolution of their design system, ensuring consistency and efficiency across applications.
Responsibilities:
• Lead development and evolution of our design system, focusing on reusability, scalability, and maintainability.
• Architect and implement web components that serve as the building blocks for our user interfaces.
• Drive advanced theming solutions to support various brand identities and user preferences, leveraging CSS variables, variable stacking, and sophisticated color systems.
• Manage the full lifecycle of design system components, from development to production deployment, versioning, and ongoing maintenance.
• Oversee library and package dependency management, ensuring a stable and efficient development environment.
• Collaborate closely with design, product, and other engineering teams to translate design principles into technical solutions.
• Champion best practices in front-end development, performance, and accessibility.
• Mentor and guide other developers on design system principles and implementation.
• Develop, collaborate and maintain solid documentation components and guidelines for designers and developers.
• Create working code demonstrations to showcase component usage and capabilities.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 8+ years of experience as a Front-End Developer, with a significant focus on design system development.
• Expert-level proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript.
• Deep expertise in modern front-end frameworks, including Angular and React.
• Mastery of CSS, including pre-processors, advanced styling techniques, CSS variables, variable stacking, and robust color systems.
• Extensive experience with Web Components and their application in large-scale systems.
• Proven track record in scaling design systems, managing complex theming architectures, and ensuring smooth production deployments.
• Strong understanding of version management and library dependency management within a component library context.
• Experience with packaged version control for design system assets.
• A passion for solid documentation and creating working code demonstrations that clearly illustrate component usage.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Demonstrates a sharp eye for visual and interactive detail, a solid grasp of user interaction patterns, and excels at collaborating with designers to seamlessly translate design intent into intuitive, user-focused solutions.
Preferred:
• Experience in the Financial Services or FinTech industry.
• Contributions to open-source design systems or component libraries.
• Demonstrates a keen sense of design aesthetics.
• Possesses experience collaborating with UX designers.
• Holds advanced expertise in interaction design principles.
• Experience leveraging AI to empower yours and others work.
Company:
BNY is a global financial services platforms company at the heart of the world’s capital markets. Founded in 1784, the company is headquartered in New York, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.