Lead UX Engineer

Location: New YorkDepartment: TechnologyExperience Level: Experience ProfessionalsContact: Paul KrugJob ID: REQ8301Role OverviewThe Lead UX Engineer will be a technical leader within the Enterprise UX team. This role is responsible for advancing shared UI foundations, design-system strategy, and UX standards across BAM’s internal applications supporting investment, operations, and corporate workflows.This is a hands-on engineering role with strategic UX accountability. Combines deep front-end engineering expertise in React, TypeScript, component architecture, and shared UI libraries with strong design-system governance and UX practice. They will define a scalable vision for the firm’s UI platform, translate that vision into production-ready standards and enable delivery of accessible, consistent, high-quality experiences.Key Responsibilities• Lead the architecture, technical direction, governance, and adoption of BAM’s firmwide design system and shared UI platform.• Build and evolve reusable, production-quality React and TypeScript components, patterns, and libraries for internal applications.• Establish standards for component APIs, ShadCN, Tailwind, design tokens, theming, interaction states, testing, versioning, and release management.• Work closely with product, design, engineering, and platform teams to drive UI consistency, component reuse, and strong implementation quality.• Review high-impact workflows and shared components for usability, accessibility, performance, and visual consistency.• Set the roadmap for shared front-end capabilities and provide practical standards, documentation, examples, prototypes, code reviews, and enablement that improve quality without slowing delivery.• Translate Figma patterns into scalable, accessible, maintainable production components; govern libraries, tokens, variants, component structure, and documentation.Required Qualifications• 8+ years of experience in front-end engineering, UX engineering, design-system engineering, or a related technical field.• Deep production experience with React, TypeScript, modern JavaScript, component architecture, and reusable front-end libraries.• Proven experience building, scaling, or leading a design system used across multiple products or engineering teams.• Experience with ShadCN, Tailwind, or comparable UI primitives and styling systems.• Experience defining component APIs, composition patterns, testing standards, versioning, and backward-compatible library releases.• Strong communication, influence, and strategic judgment across engineering, design, product, platform, and senior stakeholders.• Strong Figma expertise, including libraries, tokens, variants, component properties, documentation, and design-system governance.• Strong accessibility expertise, including semantic HTML, keyboard navigation, focus management, ARIA, and interaction design.Preferred Qualifications• Experience building data-dense enterprise applications for capital markets, trading, risk, portfolio management, or operations.• Familiarity with real-time grids, charts, dashboards, blotters, analytics tools, and workflow-heavy user interfaces.• Experience with AG Grid, Highcharts, or comparable enterprise grid and visualization platforms.• Experience with monorepos, shared packages, build tooling, testing frameworks, CI/CD, and package publishing.• Exposure to FDC3, OpenFin, Tauri, WebView2, or related desktop interoperability technologies.• Experience applying AI-assisted tools to improve UI development, testing, documentation, or design-system delivery.Primary Areas of Ownership• Shared React and TypeScript component libraries, including ShadCN-based assets and reusable UI patterns.• Figma libraries, design tokens, components, variants, and documentation.• Design-system architecture, standards, governance, adoption, and roadmap.• Accessibility, theming, interaction patterns, component APIs, and visual consistency.• Shared front-end tooling, documentation, examples, and developer enablement.• UI foundations for data-dense investment and analytics applications.