About the role
PandaDoc is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Thesis design system team, part of the Core UX area within our Application Platform track. Your work will directly impact how 35+ product teams build UI across the PandaDoc ecosystem and shape the experience for millions of users.
About Core UX
Core UX is the foundational area for PandaDoc's frontend experience. We focus on building platform frameworks, intelligent tooling, and architectural foundations that enable product teams to move faster and build better. The Thesis design system team specifically focuses on:
- Building and maintaining PandaDoc's component library, design tokens, and scalable patterns
- Providing UI primitives that ensure consistency and quality across all products
- Establishing accessibility, performance, and quality standards
- Supporting 35+ product teams with production-grade components, documentation, and modern workflows
Thesis consists of:
- React component library (Thesis UI Kit)
- Figma libraries defining our visual language
- Documentation and guidelines at thesis.pandadoc.com
- Monorepo contains 80+ components across multiple packages (components, icons, themes, utilities), requiring careful dependency management and versioning strategies.
As a Senior Engineer on the Thesis team, you'll architect and build complex components, establish patterns that scale across the organization, and leverage modern tooling—including AI—to accelerate design system adoption and developer productivity. You'll work hands-on building production-grade components while mentoring engineers and driving quality standards across product teams.
What you'll achieve
Development
- Build and maintain a scalable design system, ensuring consistent, accessible, and high-performance user experiences across 35+ product teams
- Architect robust UI components with flexible APIs and composition patterns that serve diverse use cases
- Extend impact beyond components—contribute to build tooling, automation scripts, and CI workflows that support design system delivery and adoption
- Ensure production-grade quality through comprehensive testing, performance optimization, and thorough documentation
Cross-functional execution
- Collaborate with designers to translate design intent into production-ready components, ensuring visual and functional excellence
- Build intelligent tooling and automation that streamlines repetitive tasks—from component scaffolding to design token synchronization
- Establish feedback loops with designers and product teams to continuously improve component quality and usability
Evangelism
- Drive adoption of Thesis across the organization by supporting engineering teams, improving documentation, and establishing clear usage guidelines
- Champion accessibility standards and best practices, ensuring all components meet WCAG guidelines
- Mentor engineers on component architecture, composition patterns, and design system principles
Innovation
- Stay ahead of industry trends in design systems, frontend development, and AI-assisted workflows
- Leverage GenAI to boost adoption and developer experience—build intelligent agents, migration tools, and automation that help engineers work more efficiently
- Apply prompt engineering and context-aware AI to accelerate development cycles, from component generation to automated migrations
About you
Required skills
- Frontend development & tooling: Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript, React, HTML/CSS, and modern frontend technologies
Component Styling: Experience with CSS-in-JS libraries like styled-components (preferred), Emotion, or similar
- Component documentation: Experience with Storybook for building and documenting components in isolation
- Design system expertise: Experience building and maintaining UI component libraries at scale, including component architecture, APIs, and composition patterns
- Collaboration with design: Experience working with design teams using Figma workflows, design tokens, and collaborative design-to-development processes
- Accessibility & performance: Knowledge of web accessibility standards (WCAG, ARIA) and performance optimization techniques
- Testing: Comfortable with testing strategies for UI components (unit, integration, visual regression)
- Communication & influence: Ability to advocate for the design system, support adoption across teams, and collaborate effectively with designers, PMs, and engineers
- AI fluency: Willingness to leverage AI tools in your workflow—from code generation to documentation to automation—and explore how AI can enhance design system adoption and developer experience
What makes you successful
- 5-6+ years in software engineering with strong frontend expertise
- You write clean, well-tested code and take pride in getting the small details right
- Extreme ownership mindset—you drive projects from concept through implementation to adoption
- Knowledgeable about design and UI patterns at scale
- Passion for prototyping, experimentation, and creating accessible experiences
- You've worked on systems used by other engineers and understand what makes great developer experience
- You're comfortable in remote, distributed environments and communicate effectively across time zones
Nice to have
- Experience with Figma APIs or design token automation
- Contributions to open-source design systems or UI libraries
- Background leveraging AI tools to accelerate development workflows
- Experience with monorepo tooling or build systems at scale
Company Overview:
PandaDoc empowers more than 40,000 growing organizations to thrive by taking the work out of document workflow. PandaDoc provides an all-in-one document workflow automation platform that helps fast scaling teams accelerate the ability to create, manage, and sign digital documents including proposals, quotes, contracts, and more. For more information, please visit https://www.pandadoc.com.
Company Culture:
We're known for our work-life balance, kind co-workers, & creative virtual team-bonding events. And although our Pandas are located across the globe, we stay connected with the help of technology and ensure that everyone on our team feels, well, like a team.
Pandas work best when they're happy. We retain our talent by upholding our values of integrity & transparency, and selling a product that changes the lives of our customers.
Check out our LinkedIn to learn more.
Benefits:
- An honest, open culture that emphasizes feedback and promotes professional and personal development
- An opportunity to work from anywhere — our team is distributed worldwide, from Lisbon to Manila, from Florida to California
- 6 self care days
- A competitive salary
- And much more!
PandaDoc is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal treatment of all employees without regard to race, national origin, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, veteran status, physical or mental disability or other basis protected by law.
EXTERNAL RECRUITERS
Approval Requirement
The use of external recruiters/staffing agencies requires prior approval from our HR Team. The HR Team at PandaDoc requests that external recruiters/staffing agencies not to contact PandaDoc employees directly in an attempt to present candidates. Complying with this request will be a factor in determining future professional relationships with PandaDoc.
