Senior Software Engineer I, Design Systems

Our mission: to eliminate every barrier to mental health.

At Spring Health, we’re on a mission to revolutionize mental healthcare by removing every barrier that prevents people from getting the help they need, when they need it. Our clinically validated technology, Precision Mental Healthcare, empowers us to deliver the right care at the right time—whether it’s therapy, coaching, medication, or beyond—tailored to each individual’s needs.

We proudly partner with over 450 companies, from startups to multinational Fortune 500 corporations, as a leading provider of mental health service, providing care for 10 million people. Our clients include brands you use and know like Microsoft, Target, J.P. Morgan Chase, and Delta Airlines, all of whom trust us to deliver best-in-class outcomes for their employees globally. With our innovative platform, we’ve been able to generate a net positive ROI for employers and we are the only company in our category to earn external validation of net savings for customers.

We have raised capital from prominent investors including Generation Investment, Kinnevik, Tiger Global, William K Warren Foundation, Northzone, RRE Ventures, and many more. Thanks to their partnership and our latest Series E Funding, our current valuation has reached $3.3 billion. We’re just getting started—join us on our journey to make mental healthcare accessible to everyone, everywhere.

Spring Health’s design systems team ideates, designs, engineers, and maintains an ecosystem of internal tooling for product designers and front end engineers, and empower them to bring our vision to life. We serve as the glue between our product design and product engineering teams, and take great care to ensure our systems are creative, flexible, scalable, accessible, consistent and reliable. We believe that design is never done, and we’re building a scalable system to meet the highest levels of both quality and function. We need passionate people that aren’t afraid to push the limits, and can convince others to follow along. Ultimately you will help us deliver a polished product at scale. 

This position is remote, full time, with travel 1-2 times per year for team gatherings as possible. You will report to a Senior Engineering Manager in the Member Experience organization and work closely with the Design Systems team. 

What you’ll be doing: 

• Work on a small team to build performant experiences using your deep knowledge of modern front end development practices and technologies
• Develop with a component-first mindset and an eye for clean design and UX
• Partner with design systems and feature teams to ensure members come first
• Research complex problems, then design and implement solutions
• Utilize broad knowledge of architectural patterns and best practices
• Extending API’s that empower engineers to maximize creative expression and overall utility
• Use semantic design tokensImplemente tokenized Lottie or Rive animations
• Be a WCAG 2.2 A/AA advocate and resource to the engineering teams
• Develop React components per Figma design specifications
• Collaborate with design systems and feature teams to ensure members come first
• Accountable for estimation of work and deliverable timeline with high quality
• Mentor and guide fellow frontend software developers
• Uses clear and concise written and verbal communication, leaning on more asynchronous
• Review all design systems code changes, ensuring quality is high, meets accessibility standards, and is responsive to all supported screen sizes 

What success looks like in this role: 

• React component library - held accountable to a committed % of component availability for engineers to use in their React projects by agreed upon release date.
• Design system documentation - responsible for percentage of components and  patterns, timely documented
• Active contributors - increase the number of engineers contributing to the design system
• Automated a11y testing coverage - build and improve the percentage of the ecosystem covered by automated scans or monitoring for a11y conformance

What we expect from you: 

• Expertise in building performant experiences using HTML, CSS & JavaScript
• Expertise in React including JSX, components, props, state management, lifecycle methods, hoo