Senior Software Engineer - Design System - Fixed Term Contract, Mat Cover

Serko is a cutting-edge tech platform in global business travel & expense technology. When you join Serko, you become part of a team of passionate travellers and technologists bringing people together, using the world’s leading business travel marketplace We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, we embrace the richness of diversity, showing up authentically to create a positive impact.

Requirements

Make an Impact

The Senior Front-End Design System Engineer has a passion for building modern front-end solutions using industry best practices and the latest front-end technologies to shape the future of our Design System! You will be delivering modern Design System components that are performant, accessible, and responsive, by default. You will work in a modern Component-driven Driven Development environment with a multi-disciplinary team to produce consistent, high-quality, engineering artefacts alongside matching design elements. This allows the Design System Team to unlock high-efficiency workflows for our internal consumers.

What you'll get to do

• Be part of the team that defines how the organisation engages with our Design System.
• Help software engineering teams create high-quality software through Design System onboarding, training, and adoption support
• Consistent collaboration with Design Team designers to explore options, define requirements and resolve ambiguities.
• Strong awareness of the React ecosystem’s current and emerging patterns, practises, and tooling.
• Produce clean, consistent and well-organised code, with automation & testing.
• Delivery of highly accessible, performant, and responsive React components.
• Contribute towards continuous improvement in the team’s processes, practices and products.
• Mentor and coach other engineers who are new to the industry or company.

What you'll bring

• Proven track record in delivering and maintaining quality user experiences across different form factors (desktop, mobile, tablet).
• Strong experience in front-end technologies (React, CSS/CSS-in-JS, semantic HTML, TypeScript, NodeJS) and concerns (state management, performance, accessibility, responsive design).
• Strong understanding of React compositional patterns and component design techniques.
• Experience with common front-end tools for building and testing (e.g., Webpack/Vite/Rollup, Jest/Vitest, React Testing Library, Storybook, Cypress/Playwright).
• Effective communication skills. Translate complex UI interaction, usage scenarios and processes into clear and concise language and requirements.
• Awareness of concerns such as pipelines, continuous integration, automated testing, design tooling (Figma or similar) and infrastructure requirements.
• Openness to receiving and giving feedback in a safe and inclusive work environment.

Benefits

At Serko we aim to create a place where people can come and do their best work, offering competitive benefits that support you as an individual.

• A competitive base salary

• Focus on development: Access to a learning & development platform.
• Serko’s Guiding Principles: Be a good human | Boldly go beyond | Win together | Dare to simplify

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Serko is an NZ Immigration Accredited employer and holds the NZ Advanced GenderTick Accreditation.