Lead Front-End Engineer - Enterprise Design System

About the role

Julius Baer is looking for an experienced Lead Front-End Engineer in Singapore to own the technical direction and evolution of its enterprise Design System. The role defines front-end engineering standards, governs the Design System and enables consistent adoption across multiple applications, working closely with designers, architects, product owners and engineering teams.

Key responsibilities

• Own the technical direction and evolution of the enterprise Design System
• Design, develop and maintain reusable, accessible UI components and front-end frameworks
• Define and maintain architecture, component APIs, design tokens, theming and engineering best practices
• Govern component lifecycle, versioning, release strategy and backward compatibility
• Promote Design System adoption through guidance, documentation, code reviews and developer enablement
• Ensure components comply with WCAG standards and accessibility best practices
• Lead technical discussions, architecture reviews and engineering decisions
• Mentor engineers and coach teams on engineering best practices
• Collaborate with Engineering, Product, UX and Architecture teams
• Follow regulatory and risk management duties, including honesty, integrity, fair dealing, conflict of interest management and compliance with applicable laws

Required profile

• Proven experience delivering large-scale enterprise front-end applications
• Demonstrated success driving Design System adoption across multiple teams and applications
• Experience in Agile software development environments
• Strong communication, stakeholder engagement and mentoring skills
• Ability to lead technical discussions and make engineering decisions

Required skills

• HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript (ES6+) and TypeScript
• StencilJS, Web Components, Custom Elements, Shadow DOM and component composition
• Building and managing enterprise Design Systems or reusable component libraries
• Design tokens, theming, semantic HTML and WAI-ARIA
• WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility standards and accessibility-first development
• Screen reader testing with NVDA, JAWS or VoiceOver, and axe-core
• Internationalization and localization
• Automated testing with Playwright (or equivalent) with accessibility integration
• Micro Front-End architecture and Module Federation
• Figma collaboration with UX teams
• Monorepos and build tooling such as Nx, pnpm or Turborepo
• Desirable: DevOps, CI/CD, release automation, Microsoft Azure, open-source contributions