Senior iOS Software Engineer, Design Systems

Role Description

As a

Senior

iOS Engineer on the Design System Team

, you will play a central role in enabling consistent, scalable, and delightful product experiences across our native applications. You will help define and evolve our design system foundations, ensuring engineers and designers can build with speed, quality, and cohesion. In this role, you’ll gain exposure to senior leadership, influence design and engineering practices across teams, and contribute to the evolution of a system that empowers millions of users.

Your Impact Will Span

System foundations

: Building reusable iOS components and frameworks that serve as the backbone of our product experience.

Collaboration & advocacy

: Partnering with designers, Android peers, and product engineers to ensure multi-platform design system cohesion and adoption.

Scalability & innovation

: Driving long-term architecture, accessibility, and performance standards that support product growth at scale.

Developer experience

: Improving documentation, workflows, and tooling to make using the design system frictionless for engineers.

Our Engineering Career Framework is

viewable by anyone outside the company

and describes what’s expected for our engineers at each of our career levels. Check out our blog post on this topic and more

here

.

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

.

Many teams at Dropbox run Services with on-call rotations, which entails being available for calls during both core and non-core business hours. If a team has an on-call rotation, all engineers on the team are expected to participate in the rotation as part of their employment. Applicants are encouraged to ask for more details of the rotations to which the applicant is applying.

Requirements

B

achelor’s

degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding

(e.g.,

P

hysics or

M

athematics), or equivalent technical experience

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).

Strong collaboration and communication skills, with ability to align engineers and designers.

Track record of writing clean, maintainable, and testable code.

Experience With Ci/cd, Developer Tooling, Or Automation For Design System Workflows.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience Scaling Design Systems In Multi-platform Environments

(iOS,

Android, Web).

Working knowledge of

Objective-C

or additional mobile platforms.

Experience With The Android Ecosystem Also A Plus.

Familiarity with performance optimization, UI testing, or analytics instrumentation.

Experience Contributing To Open-source Design Systems Or Developer Tooling.

Prior experience mentoring engineers or leading cross-functional initiatives.

Compensation

US Zone 1

This Role Is Not Available In Zone 1

US Zone 2

$195,800

—

$265,000 USD

US Zone 3

$174,100

—

$235,500 USD