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From the employer's careers site First seen 26 Oct 2026

Frontend Engineer - Design Systems

Salary

$140,800-$158,400 USD per year

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Description

Mercury's Design Systems team helps product teams build interfaces that feel consistent, accessible, and carefully considered.

We're hiring a Frontend Engineer to help evolve the shared components and patterns behind those experiences, making it easier for teams across Mercury to turn good ideas into well-crafted software.

You'll work closely with designers and engineers to understand product needs, explore solutions, and carry improvements into the hands of the teams using them.

This role is open to early-career and intermediate engineers.

Responsibilities

  • Build shared components and patterns that make Mercury's interfaces better.
  • Partner with designers and product engineers to connect design intent with working software.
  • Improve the quality of the experiences built with our components.
  • Make the design system easier to use.
  • Use AI tools to explore approaches and move ideas into working code.

Requirements

  • A foundation in React, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS, with experience building interfaces and the ability to explain the decisions behind your code.
  • Care for visual craft and how people use software, including an interest in accessible interfaces and the details that make interactions feel right.
  • Hands-on fluency with AI coding tools.
  • Ownership and a willingness to learn.
  • Curiosity about reusable systems and the tradeoffs involved in serving different product needs with shared components.

Nice to Have

  • Experience with design systems, prototyping, or developer tooling.

Total Rewards

The total rewards package at Mercury includes base salary, equity (stock options/RSUs), and benefits.

Our target new hire base salary ranges for this role are:

  • US employees (any location): $140,800-$158,400 USD
  • Canadian employees (any location): $115,700-$149,700 CAD

Skills

Required

Nice to have

Ready to apply?

You apply with the employer directly. Their original posting is here: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/mercury/jobs/6233910004

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