Staff Engineer (Design Systems)

We at Pleo are on a mission to make spend management surprisingly effective and empowering.

We build a product used by thousands of companies across Europe and our design system is a core part of delivering a consistent accessible high-quality experience.

We’re hiring a Staff Engineer to join the Design Systems team.

This will help lead the engineering direction and execution of our design system across web and mobile.

What Design Systems does

• Own and evolve Telescope Pleo’s design system (components patterns guidelines and tooling).
• Enable product teams to ship faster with consistent UI accessibility and quality.
• Partner with Design and Engineering across the company to drive adoption and improve the contribution experience.
• Steward shared foundations (tokens components documentation and best practices).

What you’ll be doing

As a Staff Tech Lead Engineer in Design Systems you will be a force multiplier for product delivery and UI quality across Pleo

• Set technical direction for key parts of Telescope (architecture component standards release practices and quality bars)
• Drive and evolve our contribution model and how teams interact with Design Systems
• Own and improve how requests flow into the team (triage prioritisation and expectations)
• Improve the developer and contributor experience through tooling and automation including:
  • Design system visual testing and workflows
  • Supporting internal operational needs where relevant
  • Improving how we measure and communicate adoption and system health
  • Evolving our docs publishing workflow
• Lead rituals that keep the team effective and aligned
• Represent Design Systems in cross-team initiatives and align stakeholders across Design and Engineering
• Coach and mentor engineers and help grow technical leadership in the frontend community
• Contribute hands-on in code.

  This role blends strategy and execution.

  You should expect to be coding a meaningful part of the time.

You’ll bring solid experience with

• Building and maintaining component libraries or platform-like products that serve multiple teams.
• TypeScript and modern frontend engineering (React experience is a plus).
• Designing maintainable systems with clear boundaries versioning and backwards compatibility.
• Testing practices and tooling (unit integration end-to-end) and a strong quality mindset.
• Accessibility and performance best practices for UI systems.
• Collaboration with designers and product engineers and navigating tradeoffs across stakeholders.

Your colleagues would say you

• Lead by example and raise the bar with pragmatism and care.
• Communicate clearly listen well and bring people along in decisions.
• Enjoy breaking down complex problems gathering input and driving to a solution.
• Coach others and create space for people to grow.
• Prefer progress over perfection while still caring deeply about quality.

 

Show me the benefits!

• Your own Pleo card (no more out-of-pocket spending!)
• Lunch is on us for your work days - enjoy catered meals or receive a lunch allowance based on your local office 🍜
• Comprehensive private healthcare - depending on your location coverage options include Vitality Alan or Médis 
• We offer 25 days of holiday + your public holidays
• For our Team we offer both hybrid and fully remote working options
• Option to purchase 5 additional days of holiday through a salary sacrifice
• We use MyndUp to give our employees access to free mental health and well-being support with great success so far  ❤️‍🩹
• Paid parental leave - we want to make sure that we're supportive of families and help you feel that you don't have to compromise your family due to work 👶