Investec is a distinctive Specialist Bank serving clients principally in the UK and South Africa. Our culture gives us our edge: we work hard to find colleagues who'll think out of the ordinary and we put them in environments where they'll flourish. We combine a flat structure with a focus on internal mobility. If you can bring an entrepreneurial spirit and a desire to learn and collaborate to your work, this could be the boost your career deserves.

Investec's Group Client Experience Platforms team is looking for an experienced Design System Engineer with a background in building and maintaining design systems alongside designers within a product organisation. This role will help integrate the Design System into the Product codebase and ways of working, as well as providing best practice. The system will be used to power our customer facing products, as well as any new sub brands that fall under our ecosystems strategy. We ideally need someone who has worked in organisations of scale, with multiple design systems, and has experience consolidating these down.

What you will be doing

• Develop, improve and actively maintain design system components, ensuring we keep a high standard of coding across all platforms (building with the long-term vision in mind). 
• Collaborate with the designers of the team to develop the design and functionality of our components. 
• Convert design specs into technical specs, focusing on ways to make component APIs as easy as possible to understand for our consumers. 
• Create and champion engineering standards and guidelines. 
• Catch-up with system consumers on how the system is working for them. 
• Lead implementation, adoption, and contributions for the new elements in the design system in the engineering space. 
• Focus on accessibility so we have a high level of accessible components. 
• Rigorously test components and maintain CICD pipelines. 
• Communicate with consumers whenever there have been any code updates, and support consumers with any system related technical issues. 
• Champion the design system across the wider engineering community, leading the standards for both coding and accessibility.
  

Experience and skills we are looking for

• Extensive UI and engineering experience. 
• Experience of working with Design System Libraries (Figma + Storybook/Zeroheight). 
• Experience of testing UI components. 
• A command of best practices and in-depth experience with the creation and management of design systems. 
•  On the front edge of current thinking on design systems, their application and execution.
  
•  Experience in working with Design Tokens. (desirable)
• Experience building for neurodiverse & disabilities. 
•  Have worked on large global products with distributed teams. 
• Experience with localisation flexibility and multiple brands.
  

As part of our collaborative & agile culture, our working week is 4 days in the office and one day remote.

Investec offers a range of wellbeing benefits to make our people feel healthier, balanced and more fulfilled in their lives inside and outside of work.

Here is a selection of what we offer;

Wellbeing

Wellbeing Subsidy, Corporate Gym Membership, Virtual GP, Peppy Health App (Fertility, Menopause and Early Parenthood), Optional Private Medical & Dental Insurance

Monetary

Non-contributory Pension & Discretionary Bonus

Life & Income Protection

Life Assurance, Critical Illness & Income Protection

Travel

Season Ticket Loan & Electric Vehicle Scheme 

Embedded in our culture is a sense of belonging and inclusion. This creates an environment in which everyone is free to be themselves which helps to drive innovation, creativity and ultimately business performance. At Investec we want everyone to find it easy to be themselves, and to feel they belong. It's a responsibility we all share and is integral to our purpose and values as an organisation.

We want our people to feel empowered to be themselves in an environment that supports them, enabling them to perform in “out of the ordinary” ways. Our culture places belonging and inclusion at its centre and our work environment is integral to this. If you require any adjustments to support you through the recruitment process, as well as supportive and flexible working arrangements to help you succeed with us, please let our recruitment team know.

Research shows that some candidates can be reluctant to apply to a role unless they meet all the criteria. We pride ourselves on our entrepreneurial spirit here and welcome you to do the same – if the role excites you, please don't let our person specification hold you back. Get in touch!