Design Systems Engineer (m/f/d)

Why should you join?DocuWare stands for globally distributed, international teams and an open corporate culture that invites you to help shape it. Mobile Work and flexible working hours are part of our everyday life. Would you like to be part of an innovative company whose solutions are digitizing everyday work in a wide range of industries? In that case, we are happy to welcome you to the team.

Your ResponsibilitiesWe're looking for a Design Systems Engineer to take ownership of our design system's end-to-end pipeline — from design tokens in Figma, through automated token transformation and component libraries, to visual-regression-gated delivery in production. This person sits at the seam between design and engineering: fluent enough in design to argue token semantics with designers, and strong enough in code to ship the infrastructure that turns design decisions into shippable, tested components.

This is the kind of role where one day you're reconciling a naming conflict between Figma and code, and the next you're diagnosing why a component renders differently in production. You'll be the steward of the system that every product team builds on top of.

Your responsibilities:

• Owning the design token pipeline, you keep Figma as the single source of truth and drive tokens through to consumable CSS/SCSS variables and a component library, while managing primitive → semantic → component token tiers, naming conventions, and the inevitable gaps and conflicts.
• The component library is yours to build and maintain, as you review components against design specs, fix fidelity issues, and govern variants and APIs.
• In this role, you run design-to-code automation, programmatically extract tokens and component context from Figma, and build tooling (including AI-assisted workflows) that reduces the manual work of keeping design and code in sync.
• As the owner of visual-regression and accessibility infrastructure, you maintain a CI-integrated pipeline (visual diffing + automated a11y checks) with baseline management and PR gating, hosted on cloud infrastructure in collaboration with our DevOps teams and our Azure cloud infrastructure.
• When migrations are on the table, you lead the technical parts of component and token migrations by planning and executing phased rollouts that swap legacy components for the modern system spec-by-spec, with explicit sign-off and before/after evidence, while protecting backward compatibility.
• By documenting and transferring knowledge, you keep architecture decisions and conventions written down so the system stays maintainable beyond any one person.

What you need to succeed

• Several years of design system experience equip you to succeed, ideally gained on a cross-platform design system.
• Your TypeScript and modern frontend skills are strong, and you are comfortable in Angular and web components (e.g., Lit).
• Your CSS/SCSS craft is solid.
• Hands-on experience with design tokens—including token architecture, semantic tiers, and tooling such as Tokens Studio, W3C DTCG, or Style Dictionary (or equivalent)—is part of your toolkit.
• You demonstrate real Figma fluency, from reading design systems, variables/collections, and component libraries to using the Figma API/plugin ecosystem for programmatic extraction.
• Your CI/CD and cloud delivery experience covers pipelines, package publishing to private feeds, and hosting build artifacts and tooling, with Azure experience (Static Web Apps, Container Apps, Blob Storage, Entra ID) considered a plus.
• Modernizing legacy frontends incrementally without breaking consumers is something you have done.
• You are curious and passionate about AI-assisted design and engineering workflows.
• A proactive approach to solving problems defines how you work.
• You have excellent communication skills in English, and German is a plus.

What we can offerThere are many great reasons to join DocuWare - our company culture is only one of them.

As part of the DocuWare team, you will benefit from many advantages:

• Globally distributed, international teams: You will find our teams working in Germering, New York, Sofia or other worldwide locations.
• Flexible work location and hours: You work hybrid - on the road or in our modern office - and you have the flexibility to arrange your own working hours.
• Individual support: After an intensive induction, you will receive regular training tailored to your needs (e.g. conferences internal team building measures).
• Well-earned rest: 35 vacation days per year, sport offerings, massages, a football table and a relaxing lounge area.
• Mental health support: With our employee assistance program you have free and confidential access to resources and support for your well-being and stress management at any time.
• Healthy food: Together we enjoy Fairtrade coffee with organic milk or oat milk, snacks and fresh fruit - all free of charge - as well as subsidized lunch from the Foodji fridge.
• Free Tuesday Lunch: Every Tuesday, enjoy a complimentary and varied lunch.
• Good accessibility: Choose how you would like to come to the office with a leased e-bike, by train or via highways A96/A99 (you can charge your e-car on site for free).
• Team spirit: Regular employee and team events (virtual or on-site) ensure excellent collaboration with colleagues around the world.
• Sustainability and social commitment: DocuWare stands for paperless work and supports volunteer organizations and local sports clubs.
• Planning for your future: DocuWare subsidizes your company pension plan!
• We offer a stable job with a well established and growing company.
• Unique benefits: Choose one of three great options (Bonago, E-Gym or subsidized Deutschlandticket) to suit your needs.
• We only use the latest technologies - find out more on Stackshare.
• Up to 30 Days Work from Abroad: Experience international opportunities and broaden your horizons.
• Family First: Preferential registration in o