Senior (Lead) Frontend Engineer – Design System

The Company

Cover Genius is a Series E insurtech that protects the global customers of the world’s largest digital companies including Booking Holdings, owner of Priceline, Kayak and Booking.com, Intuit, Uber, Hopper, Ryanair, Turkish Airlines, Descartes ShipRush, Zip and SeatGeek. We’re also available at Amazon, Flipkart, eBay, Wayfair and SE Asia’s largest company, Shopee. Our partners integrate with XCover, our award-winning insurance distribution platform, to embed protection for millions of customers worldwide each year.

Our team and products have been recognized with dozens of awards including by the Financial Times which ranked Cover Genius as the #1 fastest-growing company in APAC in 2020. Our diverse team across 20+ countries and many language groups commit itself to diverse cultural programs, in particular “CG Gives” which makes social entrepreneurs out of us all and funds development initiatives in global communities.

Our People are

Bold, Authentic, Purposeful and Inspired

Our People are not

Perfect, Traditional, Complacent or Cautious

Cover Genius is seeking a talented Frontend Engineer to bridge our Design and Product teams. You'll work on our GUI web components framework and related projects, reporting directly to the Director of Design and working closely with the Technology team. It’s an exciting and unique opportunity to become a foundation engineer in a new tech team working on a greenfield project with a large impact in a successful organization that demonstrates sustainable growth.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain a set of reusable web components that are used by Product teams across the portfolio of business projects.
• Implement design token synchronization between Figma and the web components library.
• Setup code quality, QA and release automation pipelines in GitLab.
• Work closely with design and product teams to establish and streamline the design-to-development workflow.
• Develop internal Design System portal.
• Optimize components for performance and accessibility.
• Collaborate with designers to translate design concepts and prototypes into functional, high-quality web components.
• Ensure consistency of the design language across all web components and applications.
• Contribute to the evolution of our design system, ensuring it meets the needs of various products and platforms.

Experience and skills:

• Deep understanding of web components and modern web technologies, standards and practices and recent experience building web components in a large organization ideally using Lit, Lion and TypeScript.
• Strong knowledge of web accessibility standards and experience with accessibility testing.
• Experience working with design teams on implementing design system technical solutions.
• Good understanding of the development best practices, code reviews, continuous integration, release process, version control, code quality tools, linters, etc.
• Experience using testing frameworks – visual, components, end-to-end testing.
• Excellent communication, teamwork and leadership skills.
• Experience with working the Figma API and design to development automation. I.e export tokens from figma
• Attention to detail




Nice to have:

• Experience building GitLab pipelines.
• Experience using monorepo tools, such as nx.

Cover Genius not only cares about being the best in our industry, we care about our team. We’re a business that understands life can be fluid and so we flex to ensure we provide the environment to suit that. What does that mean?

• Flexible Work Environment - we are outcome focussed and understand that for our people to perform at their best flexibility is critical.

• Employee Stock Options - we want our people to share in our success, we reward them with ownership for their contribution in creating a world-class company.

• Work with like-minded people who are passionate about both the work we're doing and giving back. Our CG Gives programs enables us to all become philanthropists through our peer recognition and rewards system.

• Social Initiatives - pictures speak a thousand words!

Sound interesting? If you think you have the best composition of the above, send us your resume and let's chat!

* Cover Genius promotes diversity and inclusivity. We don't tolerate discrimination, demeaning treatment of anyone, or harassment due to race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.