About the role
You’ll be focused in
- Partnering with designers to explore, prototype, and specify new components and patterns, from early idea to defined API.
- Developing, maintaining, and evolving accessible, high-quality web components.
- Contributing to our design tokens and their delivery to web, iOS, and Android through our existing pipeline.
- Helping identify gaps in the design system by working with product teams, gathering feedback and turn findings into proposals.
- Supporting native development by keeping tokens, specifications, and component behaviour aligned across platforms.
- Supporting design system adoption through documentation, support, and training.
- Following and helping evolve frontend best practices, coding standards, and governance processes.
- Ensuring components meet accessibility standards and usability best practices.
- Contributing to testing strategies and release processes.
In order to succeed, you’ll need
- 5+ years of professional experience in Frontend Development, Design Engineering, or a similar hybrid role.
- Proven experience developing and maintaining Design Systems used across multiple products and teams.
- Experience working with design tokens, ideally across multiple platforms.
- Strong working proficiency in Figma, including components, variants, and variables.
- Demonstrated ability to take a loosely defined need and turn it into a component proposal: visual exploration, API design, and specification.
- Strong expertise in TypeScript or modern JavaScript.
- Strong expertise in SCSS/SASS, CSS architecture, and modern styling methodologies.
- Experience developing Web Components (Stencil JS is a plus).
- Experience with modern frontend frameworks such as Angular, React, or Vue.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development, AI Agents, AI Skills, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations, including design-to-code workflows.
Nice to have
- Experience building and publishing reusable NPM packages and shared UI libraries.
- Experience using Storybook for component development, documentation, and testing.
- Experience with GitLab, CI/CD pipelines, and automated processes.
- Experience with design token tooling such as Style Dictionary.
- Working knowledge of SwiftUI or Jetpack Compose, especially how tokens and theming are consumed natively.
- Background or formal training in UI/UX or visual design.
- Strong knowledge of Accessibility (WCAG) and experience performing accessibility reviews and implementations.
- Experience with design system adoption, "office hours", or contribution models.
- Experience with Node.js and frontend tooling ecosystems.
- Experience with Nx Monorepos and large-scale codebase management.
- Experience implementing Unit Testing, Integration Testing and E2E Testing (preferably using Vitest and Playwright).
- Experience with visual regression testing and quality assurance processes.
- Knowledge of semantic versioning, release automation, and design system governance models.
Company benefits
- 1200€ to equip your home office
- Flex allowance: 720€/year (60€ per month x12)
- Performance bonus
- Health insurance extendable to your household
- Wellbeing program extendable to your household
- Life insurance
- Pension fund
- Smartphone & phone data plan
- Discounts on VW Group cars and special financing conditions
Cool things you’ll experience in our work environment
- Tailored remote-friendly setup for every team's vibe!
- Flexible working hours
- Multicultural reality with + 30 different nationalities
- Pet friendly environment
- Boost your career with our internal mobility program, focused on your personal & professional growth
- Mix and mingle across teams for idea-sharing and bonding
About VW Group Digital Solutions [Portugal]
Technology-driven trends such as diverse mobility, electrification and connectivity will revolutionize the mobility industry in the next decade. Volkswagen Group, as world leader in the automotive industry, is setting the pace for this revolution.
At Volkswagen Group Digital Solutions [Portugal] we are the go-to team to tackle complex systems and programming challenges. We make sure that our products flow smoothly in all stages of the digital value chain.
Our main areas of focus: vehicle software & operations, mobile online services, IT security, fleet management, sales & after sales, purchasing & logistics and product portfolio management.
Ready to #ExploreNewRoads? Join us! 🚗