Senior Front End Engineer - Design System

As a Senior Frontend Engineer, you will create reusable, customizable components that empower 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 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 preferred).
• Strong knowledge of JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, and component-driven development.
• Experience with design systems 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.

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

• Develop and maintain reusable, scalable UI components using React that are white-label-ready.
• Collaborate with designers to translate Figma designs into pixel-perfect components.
• 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 builds business-to-business (B2B) payment tools so small business owners can spend less time in the back office and more time on their craft. As the fastest-growing B2B payment platform in the US, Melio is working hard to find new and better ways to help small businesses succeed in the ways that work best for them.

With offices in New York, Denver, and Tel Aviv, and a vibrant work culture, Melio is expanding every single day. We are a diverse group of people who love what we do and do what we love. If you are a driven and passionate team player, you will fit right in. We are an equal-opportunity employer and are always on the lookout for top-notch talent—please reach out if you would like to join us on this exciting journey!