Software Engineer (Design Systems)

About the Company

Cover Genius is a Series E Insurtech that protects the global customers of the world’s largest digital companies including Booking Holdings, owner of Priceline, Kayak and Booking.com, Intuit, Hopper, Skyscanner, Ryanair, Turkish Airlines, Descartes ShipRush, Zip and SeatGeek. We’re also available at Amazon, Flipkart, eBay, Wayfair and SE Asia’s largest company, Shopee.

Our partners integrate with XCover, our award-winning insurance distribution platform, to embed protection for millions of customers worldwide each year. Our team and products have been recognized sed with dozens of awards including by the Financial Times who ranked Cover Genius as the #1 fastest growing company in APAC in 2020. Our diverse team across 20+ countries and many language groups commits itself to diverse cultural programs, in particular “CG Gives” which makes social entrepreneurs out of us all and funds development initiatives in global communities.

Our People are Bold, Authentic, Purposeful and Inspired

Our People are not Perfect, Traditional, Complacent or Cautious

About the Role

Cover Genius is seeking a Front End Software Engineer to develop our enterprise-wide UI component library and Design System. As part of the Design team, this role will be reporting into the Design Systems Lead, and working closely with product and engineering teams across the organisation.

You'll be a core contributor to our library of web components, our Design Tokens, and our Design System documentation. You’ll play a key role in ensuring consistency, maintainability, and scalability across our products. You’ll be the bridge between design and engineering, driving adoption and best practices for UX and UI across a wide range of applications and tech stacks.

We have a strong foundation with the Design System already used by the Design Team in Figma, design tokens synchronised into a component library based on Lit and Lion, and a community of developers who contribute part-time and who will lead the integration of the component library in their teams. You will be empowered to continue the development and adoption of this foundation, and supported by an eager team on the same mission.

Key Responsibilities:

Develop and maintain a set of reusable and themed web components using Lit, Lion and TypeScript.

Collaborate with designers and developers to translate designs into functional, high-quality web components.

Ensuring the quality of our interfaces through performance, accessibility, and cross-browser testing.

Drive adoption and best practice in building interfaces using our component library, Genius UI.

Contribute to the internal Design System portal, website and storybook documentation.

Contribute to the evolution of our design system, ensuring it meets the needs of various products and platforms.

Requirements:

Experience contributing to web applications at commercial scale, taking code from prototype to production.

Experience building reusable tokens and UI components for a Design System.

A solid understanding of modern web technologies, standards and best practices.

Sound knowledge of WCAG guidelines, and experience with accessibility testing.

Good understanding of the development best practices such as code reviews, continuous integration, release process, version control, code quality tools, linters, etc.

Good understanding of design concepts, principles and best practices

Exposure to testing frameworks – visual, components, end-to-end testing.

Attention to detail, particularly in design implementation.

Nice to have:

Experience with Web Component frameworks and libraries such as Lit or Lion

Experience in monorepo architecture

Experience with Figma or other design tooling

Why Cover Genius?

Cover Genius not only cares about being the best in our industry, we care about our team. We’re a business that understands life can be fluid and so we flex to ensure we provide the environment to suit that. What does that mean?

Flexible Work Environment - Our teams are hybrid. We work from home on Wednesdays and Thursday and collaborate in office on Monday, Tuesday and Friday with flexibility around start/finish times. With the added benefit of a Wellness day a month

Employee Stock Options - we want our people to share in our success, we reward them with ownership for their contribution in creating a world-class company.

Work with like-minded people who are passionate about both the work we're doing and giving back. Our CG Gives programs enables us to all become philanthropists through our peer recognition and rewards system.

Social Initiatives - pictures speak a thousand words!

Sound interesting? If you think you have the best composition of the above, send us your resume and let's chat!

Cover Genius promotes diversity and inclusivity. We don't tolerate discrimination, demeaning treatment of anyone, or harassment due to race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.

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