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Principal Software Engineer - Global UX - Application - Platform

Job Overview

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer with deep expertise in React, TypeScript, and component library architecture, who has built or led design systems at scale, and who combines strong technical judgment with the leadership skills to align a team…

Key points

  1. Provide technical leadership for Elastic UI (EUI), setting direction for component architecture, API design, theming, accessibility…

  2. Own the hardest technical decisions in the system: composable component patterns, breaking-change and migration strategy, versioning, token architecture…

  3. Act as tech lead for the Global UX engineering team - setting technical standards, reviewing designs, unblocking engineers on difficult problems…

  4. Partner closely with design leadership to translate design language, visual direction, and interaction patterns into robust, reusable, well-documented component APIs.

  5. Deep, hands-on expertise building and operating React and TypeScript component libraries or design systems in production…

  6. A strong track record of technical leadership - setting architecture, raising quality standards across a team…

  7. Experience designing composable, flexible component APIs, including patterns like compound components, render props, headless components, and theming/token systems.

  8. Strong instincts for accessibility (WCAG, semantic HTML, keyboard and screen-reader behavior) and a track record of building that rigor into a team's default practices.

Skills

Design SystemsReactTypeScriptCommunicationHTMLStakeholder ManagementRoadmapping

Experience: Senior-level

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