Senior Frontend Engineer, Design Systems AI skills Deputy Sydney / Melbourne, Australia 22 July

Deputy, an AI-native workforce management SaaS, is hiring a Senior Frontend Engineer to shape and build its design system with a strong emphasis on AI-native workflows. The role sits inside the design function, translating design into code and enabling AI to take part in that process, plus coaching designers to become confident design-and-build prototypers. Hybrid in Sydney or Melbourne.

What you'll do

• Build and maintain production-ready UI components that accurately reflect design intent
• Use AI tools to accelerate implementation, iteration and refinement of components, and validate AI-generated outputs for quality, accessibility and consistency
• Shape the design system (tokens, components, patterns) to be machine-readable and AI-friendly, with the metadata AI needs to generate and validate code
• Act as a core member of the design team, joining critiques and providing technical perspective so outputs are scalable and implementable
• Improve integration between design tools like Figma and engineering outputs, and explore AI-assisted testing (visual regression, accessibility)
• Create documentation and examples that serve both designers and engineers, and advocate for workflows that improve speed without compromising quality

What they're looking for

• Senior frontend engineering experience building design systems
• Strong emphasis on and fluency with AI-native design-to-code workflows