Senior Frontend Software Engineer, Design System/Accessibility

SmartRecruiters is the Recruiting AI Company that transforms hiring for the world’s leading enterprises. Built for global scale, SmartRecruiters, an SAP company, delivers an AI-powered hiring platform that automates and optimizes the entire talent acquisition process, ensuring faster and smarter hiring decisions. More than 4,000 companies, including Amazon, Visa, and McDonald's, rely on SmartRecruiters to build winning teams. In 2025, SmartRecruiters joined SAP, the global leader in enterprise applications. Together, SmartRecruiters and SAP are accelerating the reinvention of hiring by combining cutting-edge AI innovation with the scale, reach, and resources of SAP’s ecosystem.

At SmartRecruiters, we are a values-driven, globally focused tech company with strong financial backing and a bold vision for the future of work. We commit and dig deep, embracing challenges with grit, curiosity, and a drive for excellence. We foster a collaborative and inclusive work environment, where trust and determination bring us together. Because together, we will win.

Recognized by Fosway Industry Analysts as a strategic leader in recruitment technology for three consecutive years, and awarded by Comparably as a top company for Women, Perks and Benefits, Work-Life Balance, Happiness, Compensation, Diversity, and Culture - we take pride in creating a place where everyone can thrive. Our remote-friendly culture, competitive salaries, and strong internal mobility ensure that high performers have meaningful growth opportunities in an environment built on respect and empowerment.

Our engineering team solves one of the most important problems of the modern economy - connecting great people with great jobs. We believe this problem can only be solved with technology, and we developed a software platform that has supported over 100M job seekers to date (with 5M joining every month). We are looking for a backend engineer to help us build the next chapter of that vision. 

We designed our R&D structure based on the empowered product teams model. It means our teams are responsible for business outcomes and have autonomy in solving problems in the way that “customers love yet work for the business” (yes, we are heavily influenced by this and this).

The graphic interface of our system is based on micro frontends architecture that consists of dozens of applications built using modern technologies: Angular, React, and Node.js. Shared pieces of the system are built using web components. We have a strong CI/CD culture, and we currently run 40 production deployments per engineer per month.

What you’ll deliver: 

• Lead projects

  • You will plan and own DS and accessibility initiatives across product teams.

• Discover opportunities

  • You will interview frontend engineers and designers to identify gaps in the design system, accessibility workflow, and shared UI infrastructure.

• Work autonomously

  • You will take open-ended platform problems, shape them into actionable plans, and deliver improvements without waiting for detailed direction.

• Get and stay in sync

  • You will communicate early and often with engineering and design partners to maintain alignment on components, patterns, and standards.

• Author technical documents

  • You will produce clear documentation for components, guidelines, accessibility workflows, and contribution models as part of your daily work.

• Set direction

  • You will influence technical decisions, evolve the design system, and raise the bar for accessibility and shared UI quality.

• Support and mentor

  • You will help engineers adopt consistent patterns, improve accessibility, and use the design system effectively through pairing, guidance, and structured knowledge sharing across teams.

• Cross-disciplinary collaboration

  • You will partner closely with Design, Product, and Technologists to align specifications, patterns, and standards with broader company goals.

• Evolve the system

  • You will apply system thinking to refine components, workflows, and governance as the product and organization grow.

Must have qualifications:

• Understanding of JavaScript, Typescript, and Node.js 
• Familiarity with all aspects of the frontend ecosystem
• Practical experience applying accessibility standards
• Experience building or maintaining design systems
• Experience delivering cross-team initiatives that required close collaboration with Engineering and Design
• Knowledge of software development methods and best practices
• High level of personal organization skills
• Good communication skills with a good command of English, both verbal and written

Nice to have qualifications:

• Experience with Lit or similar web component technologies
• Experience in defining contribution models or design system governance
• Familiarity with monorepos and cross-team workflows
• Understanding of automated accessibility tooling and CI integrations
• Exposure to inner source practices and platform engineering work

SmartRecruiters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.