Enable consistent, scalable, and delightful product experiences across native applications by defining and evolving design system foundations.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional iOS development experience with proven contributions to shared UI libraries or design systems.
- Strong proficiency in Swift, SwiftUI, and UIKit; familiarity with modern paradigms (Combine, Swift Concurrency, MVVM).
- Solid understanding of Apple HIG and accessibility (WCAG) standards.
- Experience with design-to-code workflows (e.g., Figma tokens, variables, tooling integrations).
- Track record of writing clean, maintainable, and testable code.
- Experience with CI/CD, developer tooling, or automation for design system workflows.
- Familiarity with performance optimization, UI testing, or analytics instrumentation.
Responsibilities
- Build, maintain, and evolve Dropbox’s DIG design system iOS component library using Swift, SwiftUI, and UIKit.
- Translate Figma designs and tokens into accurate, maintainable UI components.
- Collaborate with cross-platform peers (Android, Web) to ensure consistency and parity.
- Define and maintain versioning, governance, and release processes for design system components.
- Improve internal documentation, onboarding, and tooling to accelerate adoption.
- Provide support and advocacy across product teams via code reviews, pairing, and developer experience improvements.
- Ensure design system components meet accessibility, performance, and testability standards.
Other
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (e.g., Physics or Mathematics), or equivalent technical experience
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, with ability to align engineers and designers.
- Prior experience mentoring engineers or leading cross-functional initiatives.
- Many teams at Dropbox run Services with on-call rotations, which entails being available for calls during both core and non-core business hours.
- Applicants are encouraged to ask for more details of the rotations to which the applicant is applying.
