About the role

Senior Frontend Engineer at Cognite, focusing on architecting AI-native design systems and enhancing developer experience. Leading design system development and mentoring junior engineers.

Responsibilities

Architectural Ownership of the Design System: Own the design, development, and maintenance of the core Design System and component library, ensuring code quality, security, and versioning integrity for consumption across the enterprise.
Drive Developer Experience (DX): Act as the key liaison between the Design and Product teams, focusing on developer documentation, tooling, and accessibility standards to maximize the system's ease of use for external application builders.
Implement AI-Native Components: Design and build highly reusable components that are explicitly ready to surface AI interactions, handle context transfer, or integrate advanced data models (e.g., dynamic forms, intelligent modals).
Drives Code Quality and Standards: Apply mastery of TypeScript/React to write clean, high-performance code, and enforce the use of design tokens and the components throughout the lifecycle.
User-Obsessed Design: Maintain an obsession with the user experience, treating the external and internal developers as the primary customers and prioritizing their needs for efficient and intuitive component consumption.
Mentorship and Knowledge Transfer: Proactively mentor junior engineers and peers by establishing best practices for component consumption, architecture, and maintenance across engineering teams.

Expert-Level Frontend: 5+ years of experience in professional software development with deep expertise in the modern JavaScript ecosystem, including React and TypeScript.
Design System: 3+ years of experience with deep, demonstrated expertise in architecting, building, and maintaining multi-application component libraries or design systems.
Platform/Library Specialization: Proven ability to manage the lifecycle, versioning, and distribution of shared component packages across a large organization (e.g., Monorepos, Module Federation).
AI-First Integration Experience: Proven exposure to working with AI in products, including implementing features that surface AI-generated insights or handle data validation and source attribution.
User-Obsessed Design & DX: Demonstrated obsession with developer experience (DX) and delightful user experiences for both industrial users and developers.
Architectural Strategy: Proven ability to define and lead technical strategy for complex, ambiguous problems, specifically regarding component interoperability and state management.

Join an organization of 60 different nationalities 🌐 with Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) in focus 🤝
A highly modern and fun working environment with sublime culture across the organization, follow us on Instagram @cognitedata 📷 to know more
Flat structure with direct access to decision-makers
Opportunity to work with and learn from some of the best people on some of the most ambitious projects found anywhere, across industries, with cutting edge technology
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