Senior Frontend Platform Engineer

About DataCamp DataCamp's mission is to empower everyone with the data and AI skills essential for 21st-century success. By providing practical, engaging learning experiences, DataCamp equips learners and organizations of all sizes to harness the power of data and AI. As a trusted partner to over 17 million learners and 6,000+ companies , including 80% of the Fortune 1000, DataCamp is leading the charge in addressing the critical data and AI skills shortage. About the role At DataCamp, we are on a mission to make Data and AI training available to everybody. As a Senior Frontend Platform Engineer , within our Developer Platforms team, you'll be at the intersection of UI consistency and architectural excellence, utilising AI agents to enable this. You won’t just be building a React component library, you’ll contribute and shape the frontend developer experience at DataCamp. This means evolving our Design System, optimizing our microfrontend architecture, and ensuring that product teams can ship high-quality features while using AI agent workflows to ensure it is done with speed and autonomy. You are a generalist who loves the craft of UI but understands that a great component is only useful if the surrounding architecture is performant and easy to use. About you At DataCamp, we seek individuals who embody our core values of data-driven decision-making, action, transparency, ownership, and customer focus. You thrive in a fast-paced, high-performing environment and are driven by a passion for making a meaningful impact. You're adaptable, embracing change and ambiguity with enthusiasm. Your initiative and entrepreneurial spirit push you beyond just meeting targets—you aim to understand the "why" behind our goals and take ownership to drive the business forward. You’re a collaborative team player who values transparency and always seeks to improve and innovate. If this sounds like you, we encourage you to apply! Responsibilities Design-Engineering Collaboration: Collaborate with designers and product managers to transform Figma prototypes into React/TypeScript components. Ensure these components are easy and straightforward to implement by product teams to enable fast and efficient adoption. Component Library Ownership: Develop and maintain a scalable internal UI component library that adheres to company design guidelines, continuously evolving components to ensure consistency and meet emerging product needs. AI Agent-Driven Development Operations: Own and operate AI agent workflows that accelerate frontend platform delivery. This includes designing, configuring, and orchestrating AI coding agents (Claude) to automate repetitive component scaffolding, design token generation, accessibility audits, and code migration tasks. You will evaluate agent output quality, define guardrails, create agent skills and continuously improve prompting strategies and agentic pipelines to ensure agents produce production-ready, design-system-compliant code at scale. Accessibility Compliance: Optimize design system components for accessibility (WCAG) through implementing proper semantics, ARIA roles, keyboard navigation, screen-reader support and other comprehensive accessibility compliance guidelines. Conduct an annual accessibility evaluation of important key pages and support teams identifying and fixing accessibility issues.. Full-Stack Frontend Support: Act as a “Consulting Engineer” for product teams. Help teams architect complex features, debug performance issues in their apps, and provide guidance on best practices beyond just UI components. Drive Adoption Developer Experience (DX): Move beyond just documenting components. Build tools, CLI utilities, or starters that make it "easy to do the right thing." You’ll bridge the gap between our platform and product teams, ensuring the Design System is integrated deeply into their workflows. Performance Monitoring Optimization: Monitor UI component performance in real use, optim ... (truncated, view full listing at source)