Senior Frontend Developer -Design System
About The Position
We’re looking for a talented Frontend Developer with expertise in React, TypeScript and CSS to join our dynamic team and take a leading role in advancing our design system.
As a Senior Frontend Developer, you will contribute to the development and maintenance of the Elementor UI components library, a core resource used across all the company’s products. You will work in close collaboration with designers and engineers to refine and expand the design system, ensuring it aligns with usability, performance, and aesthetic standards. Additionally, you’ll act as a GO TO person for consistent design and implementation practices, empowering development teams to integrate the design system into their workflows effectively.
Work Environment
What do we do?
Elementor is the leading website building platform for WordPress professionals.
Our vision is to empower web creators - developers, designers, and marketers, with the ability to create their futures one pixel at a time. We provide our users with everything they need to become successful web creators.
A new website is created every 10 seconds using Elementor!
Since we launched in Israel in 2016, we have expanded to more than 160 countries, with more than 18M websites powered by Elementor. More than 11% of all websites around the world are built using Elementor!
How do we do it?
At Elementor, we're building the future of web creation.
We believe in empowering both our employees and our users.
Elementor is a place where you can truly grow professionally and personally.
Creativity, friendship, curiosity, motivation, and professionalism are the driving force behind our journey. We take great pride in Elementor's constant scaling
Responsibilities
Challenges:
- Ownership & Leadership: Lead the strategic direction of the organization’s design system, ensuring its alignment with company goals and long-term vision.
- Scalability: Build and maintain a scalable and robust design system that supports a variety of applications and teams across the company.
- Performance & Optimization: Develop reusable, high-performance UI components with React, optimizing for speed, scalability, and cross-browser compatibility.
- Collaboration: Work closely with designers and developers to implement pixel-perfect user interfaces based on wireframes and design mockups.
- Code Quality: Write clean, well-documented, maintainable and testable code that adheres to industry standards and best practices.
- Continuous Improvement: Stay up-to-date with the latest frontend technologies and trends, recommending and implementing improvements to enhance the development process and user experience.
Responsibilities:
- Plan, Develop and maintain the company’s UI components library.
- Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs.
- Lead multiple interfaces with relevant stakeholders.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including designers and developers, to ensure effective adoption of the design system.
- Mentor and guide developers and designers, helping them contribute to the design system.
Requirements
- 4+ years of proven experience as a Frontend Developer working with web applications.
- 3+ years of hands-on experience with React, TypeScript, and CSS.
- 2+ years of experience developing and maintaining scalable design systems.
- Strong understanding of optimizing UI components for performance.
- Experience in writing unit tests for UI components and maintaining robust test coverage.
- Experience with Storybook - an advantage
- Experience with Material UI - an advantage
- Experience with building or maintaining open-source projects - an advantage
Podcast
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