Principal Software Engineer, Frontend - Design Systems at Jobgether
$266,200–$425,900from the description
Jul 20, 2026
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Jul 22, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual-contributor and technical leadership role focused on building and evolving a large-scale frontend design system and component library. Day-to-day work spans hands-on React/TypeScript development, defining component APIs and frontend architecture, creating internal tooling and automation, and setting accessibility standards — alongside mentoring senior engineers and collaborating with product and UX leadership. Suited to a deeply experienced frontend engineer with a background in production-scale design systems.
Principal level · 14+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 3,700 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 1,100–5,500
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The role is fully remote within the United States; no specific metro or state is specified.
The title explicitly states 'Principal Software Engineer', and the requirements (14+ years, org-wide technical impact, mentoring senior/staff engineers, defining architecture across multiple product teams) firmly support a Principal-level classification.
Compensation is quoted as an annual range of $266,200–$425,900 USD, with additional eligibility for annual bonus and RSUs.
The posting is listed via Jobgether on behalf of an unnamed partner company; the actual hiring employer is not disclosed.
'AI-assisted software development tools or coding agents' is listed in the Requirements section and marked as required; the specific tooling is not named.
Frontend tooling, UI frameworks, styling solutions, automation frameworks, and migration utilities are called out in Requirements but no specific named tools (e.g., Storybook, Webpack, Vite, CSS-in-JS libraries) are identified — only the capability categories are stated, so no additional named-technology skills could be extracted.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): AI-assisted development tools.
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