Senior Front End Engineer - Design System

As a Senior Frontend Engineer, you will create a rich, themeable design system that empowers product teams to deliver branded experiences seamlessly across multiple clients. 

As part of this role, you will collaborate closely with designers, engineers, and product managers to ensure the creation of flexible, scalable, easy to adopt, and reusable components while maintaining high performance and accessibility standards.

This is a unique opportunity that enables white-label solutions, giving each customer a distinct brand identity while maintaining core functionality and consistency.

Qualifications: 

• 5+ years of experience in frontend development (React & TypeScript).
• Strong knowledge of JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, and component-driven development.
• Experience with design system development.
• Experience with testing libraries.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills in a fast-paced environment.

Bonus points: 

• Understanding of accessibility standards (a11y) and familiarity with tools.
• Experience with white-label solutions or multi-brand design systems (e.g., theming, tokens).
• Experience with Storybook.
• Familiarity with AI-powered development tools.

 A day in the life and how you’ll make an impact:

• Develop and maintain UI components using React that are white-label-ready.
• Collaborate with designers to translate Figma designs into pixel-perfect components.
• Support product teams’ initiatives through design system adoption.
• Ensure cross-browser compatibility, accessibility (WCAG), and performance optimization.
• Build documentation, guidelines, and tools to support adoption and usage.
• Participate in code reviews and mentor other engineers.
• Identify and solve complex frontend challenges across multiple projects.

About the hiring department:

The Engineering department is the backbone of Melio. We provide consultation, support and designs for technical solutions - supporting our customers and the entire organization. We get involved from the early stage of a project, making the connection between customer needs, our product design, and then translating these into solutions. 

About Melio: 

Melio, a Xero company, is revolutionizing how small businesses handle payments. By combining Melio's best-in-class bill pay platform with Xero's global accounting expertise, we're building the ultimate financial command center for American small businesses. We're the fastest-growing B2B payment solution in the US - but we're still small enough that you can make a real, visible impact as we scale to reach millions more businesses.