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Senior UI Engineer - Design Systems Team Lead
Barclays π¨πΏ Capital Apartments, Wenceslas Square 36, 110 00 Prague, Czechia
Lead a team of UI engineers to develop a comprehensive React-based component library and design system. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure components are accessible, performant, and well-documented.
Responsibilities
- Leading a talented team of engineers, defining roles and responsibilities, providing mentorship, and fostering a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement
- Architectural ownership of a comprehensive React-based component library following modern design system principles
- Strategic collaboration with designers to translate design tokens, specifications, and interaction patterns into reusable, production-ready components
- Creation and maintenance of tooling, documentation, and developer experience improvements that enable engineering teams to efficiently adopt and contribute to the design system
- Cross-functional partnership with product managers, designers, and platform engineers to define component APIs, establish patterns, and align the design system roadmap with business objectives
Requirements
- Proven experience leading and developing engineering teams
- Strong proficiency in React and TypeScript
- Deep understanding of modern CSS, including CSS custom properties, CSS-in-JS solutions, and utility-first frameworks like Tailwind CSS
- Experience with design tokens and tooling that transforms them across platforms
- Solid understanding of web accessibility standards and experience implementing ARIA patterns, keyboard navigation, and inclusive design practices
Benefits
- Competitive country-specific benefits
- Incentive award eligibility
Key Skills
About Barclays
Barclays is a British universal bank. Our vision is to be the UK-centred leader in global finance. We are a diversified bank with comprehensive UK consumer, corporate and wealth and private banking franchises, a leading investment bank and a strong, specialist US consumer bank. Through these five divisions, we are working together for a better financial future for our customers, clients and communities. With over 325 years of history and expertise in banking, Barclays operates in over 40 countries and employs approximately 83,500 people. Barclays moves, lends, invests and protects money for customers and clients worldwide. Barclays is a trading name of Barclays Bank PLC and its subsidiaries. Barclays Bank PLC is registered in England and is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority. Registered in England. Registered No. 1026167. Registered office: 1 Churchill Place, London E14 5HP.
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