Job Description:
Our Opportunity: Chewy is growing! We're seeking a
Senior UX Engineer - Design System to help architect and scale our enterprise design system powering experiences across web platforms. This role sits at the intersection of engineering, design, and developer experience - building the foundational UI primitives and tooling that enable product teams to move fast without fragmenting the user experience.
Are you passionate about building elegant, scalable UI foundations?
Do you think in systems, not just screens?
Are you motivated by enabling other engineers to build high-quality, accessible experiences?
If your answer is yes, read on...
Our Design System team is focused on building composable, accessible, and business-logic-agnostic UI primitives that power multiple application teams. As a UX Engineer, you will partner closely with Product Design, Accessibility, and Frontend Platform teams to create scalable architecture, robust theming systems, and world-class developer experience. Your work will directly influence the consistency, accessibility, and velocity of engineering teams across the organization.
If your answer is yes, read on...
Our strong Storefront engineering team @Chewy is focused on building solutions that guide pet lovers in making their best, most informed decisions to purchase products that their pets love, every single day.
Architect and develop clean, composable, and extensible UI primitives using React and TypeScript
Build business-logic-agnostic component foundations that can scale across multiple domains and teams
Design and implement advanced CSS architecture and theming systems (design tokens, CSS variables, theming APIs)
Ensure components meet and exceed WCAG accessibility standards, including deep ARIA pattern implementation
Establish strong patterns for composition, state management boundaries, and extensibility
Drive API design decisions with a focus on ergonomics and long-term maintainability
Partner with designers to translate design tokens and Figma libraries into scalable engineering abstractions
Build documentation, examples, and usage guidelines to optimize developer adoption and experience
Create tooling, linting rules, and guardrails to prevent design system fragmentation
Collaborate with application teams to support adoption and solve integration challenges
Evaluate performance implications of component architecture and ensure lightweight, performant foundations
Contribute to long-term platform strategy and frontend architecture decisions
Minimum Qualifications:
5+ years of experience building modern frontend applications
Deep expertise in React and TypeScript, including advanced patterns (compound components, controlled/uncontrolled APIs, polymorphic components, hooks architecture)
Strong knowledge of CSS architecture, including theming strategies, design tokens, CSS-in-JS or modern styling approaches
Demonstrated experience building and maintaining reusable component libraries
Deep understanding of web accessibility (WCAG 2.x, ARIA patterns, semantic HTML)
Experience architecting frontend systems consumed by multiple teams
Strong understanding of component API design and developer ergonomics
Experience creating or contributing to documentation systems (Storybook, MDX, etc.)
Strong collaboration skills working cross-functionally with design and engineering
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience building or scaling an enterprise Design System
Experience implementing multi-brand or multi-theme architectures
Familiarity with design token pipelines and automation
Experience with frontend build tooling and bundling strategies
Experience creating code mods or migration tooling to support system evolution
Knowledge of performance optimization techniques for component libraries
Experience mentoring engineers and setting frontend standards
Background in e-commerce or high-scale consumer platforms
Experience working in Agile environments
The base salary range for this role is $115,000 - $183,500.
- The specific salary offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including but not limited to the candidate's relevant experience, education, and work location. In addition, this position is eligible for 401k and a new hire and annual equity grant. C08+ positions may also be eligible for annual bonus.
We offer different types of insurance and benefits, such as medical/Rx, vision, dental, life, disability, hospital indemnity, critical illness, and accident. We offer parental leave, family services benefits, backup dependent care, flexible spending accounts, telemedicine, pet adoption reimbursement, employee assistance program, and many discounts including 10% off pet insurance and 20% off at Chewy.com.
Exempt salary team members have unlimited PTO, subject to manager approval. Team members will receive six paid holidays per year. Team members may be eligible for paid sick and family leave in compliance with applicable state and local regulations.
Chewy is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, gender, citizenship, marital status, religion, age, disability, gender identity, results of genetic testing, veteran status, as well as any other legally-protected characteristic. If you have a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act or similar law, and you need an accommodation during the application process or to perform these job requirements, or if you need a religious accommodation, please contact
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