Senior Software Engineer, Frontend, Design Systems (AI)

Location: San Francisco, United States; hybrid schedule with at least three days per week in the office on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays

Base salary: $156,000–$195,000 annually, plus equity and benefits.

Company

hirify.global operates a car-sharing marketplace connecting travelers and local vehicle hosts across the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and France.

What you will do

• Architect, build, document, and maintain Pedal design system foundations and Web components for cross-platform consistency.
• Develop automation for release workflows, token pipelines, asset updates, documentation, testing, and adoption measurement.
• Own the Pedal Web repository, including package publishing, dependency updates, CI pipelines, GitHub Actions, and release processes.
• Lead AI-assisted systems and workflows for product development, including tooling selection, implementation, shared context, and governance.
• Build contribution models with product teams, coach designers and engineers, and support system users through education and documentation.
• Mentor engineers and participate in the hiring process.

Requirements

• 4+ years of professional front-end software engineering experience, including 2+ years focused on design systems within a dedicated design systems team.
• Strong skills in HTML, CSS, CSS-in-JS, TypeScript, React, Git, GitHub, Storybook, and Chromatic.
• Regular use of LLMs and related tools in engineering workflows for at least one year, plus experience contributing to AI infrastructure, tooling decisions, or governance.
• Experience building accessible, responsive, flexible, composable components with internationalization and cross-platform alignment.
• Experience with automated testing, declarative component frameworks, component migrations, and breaking-change adoption.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent, with strong communication, collaboration, organization, and mentoring skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with contribution models for shared design systems.
• Experience with LLM context engineering.
• Experience in service industries, agencies, or other customer-focused environments.
• Familiarity with Figma, SwiftUI, or Jetpack Compose.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with equity, benefits, paid time off, paid holidays, volunteer time off, and parental leave.
• Employer-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance, with country-specific coverage.
• Retirement employer match and a learning and development stipend.
• Travel credit, host matching, and cell phone and internet stipends.
• Hybrid and office employees receive in-office lunch, snacks, and activities.

Hiring process

• The process includes interviews and technical assessments.
• AI tools are not permitted during live interviews or technical assessments unless specifically requested as a disability accommodation.