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PerplexityPerplexitySan Francisco, CA

Member of Technical Staff

Builds the shared design system powering Perplexity’s products across web and native platforms. The role focuses on reusable React and TypeScript components, design-token infrastructure, accessibility, and close collaboration with design and consuming product teams.

220k – 405k/yr
Hybrid4+ YOEFrontend Engineering

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Design and build core primitives, including overlays, inputs, navigation, and feedback, with coherent APIs for many consuming surfaces.
  • Work across the design-token pipeline, including authoring, generation, and per-platform publishing for web, iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows.
  • Partner with design on the design language, translating Figma systems into typed, testable, documented components.
  • Migrate product surfaces from bespoke implementations to shared primitives without breaking them.
  • Build accessible components by default, including keyboard navigation, focus management, contrast, and screen-reader support, backed by automated coverage.
  • Support consuming teams through documentation, visual regression coverage, and an on-call rotation.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of experience building production frontend applications.
  • Strong React, TypeScript, and CSS skills.
  • Working knowledge of accessibility, including WCAG, ARIA patterns, and assistive technologies.
  • Interest in building reusable components.
  • Comfort collaborating closely with designers on visual and interaction language.

Nice to Have

  • Experience with a design system, component library, or shared UI platform.

Tech Stack

  • React
  • TypeScript
  • CSS
  • Design Tokens

Skills

ReactTypeScriptCSSdesign tokensFigmawcagariaAccessibilityvisual regression testingcomponent libraries

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