Software Engineer III (UX Engineer – Design System)
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Boston, MA - USA
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Job Summary
Job Description:
Our Opportunity
Chewy is growing! Were looking for a Software Engineer III to help define and scale the frontend foundations that power consistent accessible and intuitive experiences for millions of pet parents.
As part of the UX Engineering team youll work at the intersection of engineering design accessibility developer experience and platform strategy. Youll help evolve the design system component architecture tooling and engineering standards that enable teams across Chewy to build high-quality customer experiences faster and more consistently.
Were looking for engineers who think beyond individual features and screensengineers who enjoy solving ambiguous technical problems influencing engineering direction and building systems that scale across teams and domains.
Youll partner closely with Product Design Accessibility Front-End Platform and application engineering teams to shape the future of frontend development at Chewy.
What Youll Do
- Build and evolve reusable UI components patterns and design system foundations using React TypeScript HTML CSS and modern JavaScript.
- Design scalable accessible and business-logic-agnostic component APIs that can be adopted across multiple teams applications and domains.
- Lead technical design discussions and influence architecture decisions related to component systems theming accessibility performance and developer experience.
- Partner closely with Product Design Accessibility and Front-End Platform teams to translate design systems into scalable engineering solutions.
- Drive design system adoption through documentation tooling migration guidance and developer enablement.
- Improve shared frontend infrastructure including Storybook testing accessibility validation design token pipelines and developer workflows.
- Apply AI-assisted engineering practices to improve productivity documentation quality accessibility review migration support and developer experience.
- Mentor engineers through code reviews design reviews architecture discussions and technical coaching while helping raise frontend engineering standards across teams.
- Identify and solve ambiguous technical challenges balancing short-term delivery needs with long-term platform scalability and maintainability.
What Youll Need
- 5 years of experience building modern frontend applications frontend platforms shared UI libraries or design systems.
- Strong expertise in React TypeScript JavaScript HTML and CSS including modern component architecture patterns and browser behavior.
- Demonstrated experience building maintaining or scaling reusable component libraries or design systems used by multiple teams.
- Strong understanding of component API design composition patterns hooks controlled and uncontrolled APIs accessibility patterns and developer ergonomics.
- Experience leading technical initiatives and influencing engineering decisions across teams.
- Hands-on experience with Storybook or similar tools for component development documentation testing and collaboration.
- Deep understanding of web accessibility including WCAG semantic HTML ARIA keyboard navigation focus management screen readers and accessibility testing.
- Experience working with design tokens theming systems and scalable frontend architecture patterns.
- Ability to independently define decompose and solve ambiguous technical problems.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to document technical decisions tradeoffs and engineering standards.
- Experience mentoring engineers and helping improve engineering practices across teams.
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
Bonus
- Experience building or scaling enterprise design systems supporting multiple products and engineering organizations.
- Experience with Style Dictionary design token governance token pipelines and design token automation.
- Experience implementing multi-brand multi-theme or multi-platform frontend architectures.
- Experience with modern Storybook capabilities including interaction testing accessibility testing visual testing composition and CI workflows.
- Experience with React Server Components Server Actions streaming and modern frontend platform capabilities.
- Experience with monorepos package publishing build tooling dependency management codemods linting rules or automated migration tooling.
- Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools to improve developer experience documentation migration workflows accessibility review or platform adoption.
- Experience defining frontend standards governance models or platform strategy.
- Background in e-commerce high-scale consumer applications Agile environments or cloud infrastructure supporting frontend platforms and developer tooling.
The specific salary offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including but not limited to the candidates relevant experience education and work addition this position is eligible for 401k and a new hire and annual equity grant. C08 positions may also be eligible for annual bonus.
We offer different types of insurance and benefits such as medical/Rx vision dental life disability hospital indemnity critical illness and accident. We offer parental leave family services benefits backup dependent care flexible spending accounts telemedicine pet adoption reimbursement employee assistance program and many discounts including 10% off pet insurance and 20% off at .
Exempt salary team members have unlimited PTO subject to manager approval. Team members will receive six paid holidays per year. Team members may be eligible for paid sick and family leave in compliance with applicable state and local regulations.
Chewy is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color ancestry national origin gender citizenship marital status religion age disability gender identity results of genetic testing veteran status as well as any other legally-protected characteristic. If you have a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act or similar law and you need an accommodation during the application process or to perform these job requirements or if you need a religious accommodation please contact .
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About Company
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