Job Description

Salary: $93,600 - 118,560 per year Requirements:

• 5–10 years of relevant front-end development experience, including experience building, extending, or maintaining a production design system or reusable component library.
• Strong proficiency in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript or TypeScript, along with React and modern component-based development, build, and package-management practices.
• Strong understanding of modern CSS architecture, including custom properties, design tokens, themes, responsive behavior, component states, and maintainable styling strategies.
• Experience adapting or extending open-source component libraries and implementing design tokens across design and development environments.
• Experience creating reusable technical assets for adoption across multiple products or teams.
• Strong knowledge of web accessibility and experience implementing accessible interactive components.
• Experience with component, accessibility, and front-end quality testing practices.
• Experience establishing or maintaining source repositories for shared technical assets and writing stand-alone developer documentation.
• Ability to assess existing implementations and recommend practical, maintainable architectures.
• Ability to translate Figma specifications, variables, tokens, component states, and interaction intent into code.
• Strong attention to code quality, organization, performance, maintainability, and clear technical communication.
• Bachelors degree.
• Preferred: direct experience with IBM Carbon or theming a comparable open-source design system.
• Preferred: experience supporting design-system adoption across teams using multiple development frameworks, or working on enterprise and internal operational applications.
• Preferred: experience implementing complex, data-heavy components, particularly Data Tables.
• Preferred: experience with component documentation tools such as Storybook, distributing shared styles or components through internal packages, and visual regression testing.
• Preferred: experience defining contribution, release, versioning, or deprecation practices for shared component libraries, or working in a distributed contribution model.

• Evaluate Carbons open-source implementation and recommend an appropriate technical approach for our design system.
• Translate approved Figma variables and tokens into a maintainable styling or theming layer that reflects our visual identity.
• Establish a repeatable way for teams to use Carbon components with our styles.
• Implement the agreed component scope, focusing on the Data Table and approximately three to five custom components.
• Maintain accessibility, performance, and maintainability throughout the implementation.
• Organize and store the code in an approved Meijer repository, with suitable approaches for consumption, versioning, testing, and updates.
• Create stand-alone getting-started and usage documentation, implementation examples, and contribution guidance.
• Validate the approach with representative developers and transfer the knowledge they need to use and extend the system after the engagement concludes.

• CSS
• Figma
• IBM
• Support
• JavaScript
• Mobile
• React
• Storybook
• TypeScript
• Web
• Frontend

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We are seeking a senior contract Front-End Developer for our West Michigan client to complete the technical implementation of an internal design system based on IBMs open-source Carbon Design System. The system will be customized to reflect our visual identity and support new internal web and mobile applications; rebuilding or remediating existing applications is outside the engagement scope. This is a remote contract role working Eastern Time hours, with a schedule of 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and a posted rate of $45–$57 per hour. We offer eligible candidates a benefits package that includes medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance, short-term disability, and a 401(k). We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants of all abilities; reasonable accommodations are available during the application and interview process.

last updated 41 week of 2026

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