Turo

Senior Software Engineer, Frontend, Design Systems

Turo$156K — $195K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience as a front-end software engineer, ideally in Design Systems.
  • Proficient in HTML, CSS, TypeScript, React, as well as Git and GitHub.
  • Familiarity with Figma, SwiftUI, and Jetpack Compose is preferred.
  • At least 1 year of experience using LLMs and contributing to AI infrastructure.
  • Expertise in developing accessible, responsive components with a focus on internationalization.

Responsibilities

  • Architect, build, and maintain design system foundations for cross-platform consistency.
  • Develop automations for workflows, testing, and documentation.
  • Manage Pedal’s web repository and CI pipelines.
  • Lead development of AI-assisted workflows that enhance product development.
  • Build relationships with product teams to promote design system contributions.
  • Advise and mentor engineers within the team.
  • Participate in candidate hiring processes.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary, equity, benefits, and perks for full-time employees.
  • Employer-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Retirement employer match.
  • Learning & Development stipend for professional development.
  • Turo travel credit and host matching program.
  • Cell phone and internet stipend.
  • Paid time off and holidays, plus volunteer time off and parental leave.
  • In-office lunches, snacks, and fun activities for hybrid workers.
Full Job Description

We’re looking for a Senior Front-End Software Engineer to join Turo’s Design Systems team. You’ll help us architect, build, document, and maintain Pedal, our cross-platform system for iOS, Android, and Web.

This role combines engineering and enablement. You’ll build foundations and components for Web, develop automation for scale, and help lead our team’s efforts to roll out AI-assisted workflows across Product, Design, and Engineering. You’ll also build relationships, process, tooling, and documentation to support an effective and well managed contribution model.

What you will do
  • Architect, build, document, and maintain design system foundations and components for Web, with an eye toward cross-platform consistency.

  • Develop and maintain automations for release workflows, token pipelines, asset updates, documentation, testing, and adoption measurement.

  • Own the Pedal web repo: publish packages, merge dependency updates, maintain CI pipelines, GitHub Actions, and release processes.

  • Lead development of AI-assisted systems and workflows that support product development. Collaborate on both technical implementation and organizational decision-making to help the team align on tools, techniques, and governance.

  • Build relationships with product teams that support and encourage system contribution. Evangelize, coach, and educate contributing designers and engineers. Provide customer support and education for system users.

  • Advise, coach, and mentor other engineers.

  • Participate in the hiring process.

  • Other duties as assigned

Your profile

Languages & Frameworks

  • Fluent in HTML, CSS, CSS-in-JS, TypeScript, React, Git, GitHub.

  • Proficient with Storybook and Chromatic.

  • Familiar with Figma, SwiftUI, Jetpack Compose.

AI & Automation

  • 1+ years of regular use of LLMs and related tools in your engineering workflow.

  • Experience contributing to AI infrastructure for your organization. You’ve helped teams select tooling and develop governance for shared context.

Quality

  • Skilled at developing and maintaining automated test coverage that provides high confidence with minimal friction.

  • Accessibility is a first-order concern in your work, not an afterthought.

  • Expertise developing responsive, flexible components that support internationalization, user preference, and the unexpected.

  • Deep understanding of composition in declarative component frameworks.

Communication & Collaboration

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, especially when explaining complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences.

  • Experience developing projects start-to-finish in close, genuine collaboration with designers and engineers across multiple platforms. Not parallel work, integrated work.

  • Strong organizational skills, and an established practice to manage focus and maintain attention to detail, especially through long, complex projects with shifting requirements. Track record of delivering projects on time.

Education and Experience
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent.

  • 4+ years of professional experience as a front-end software engineer, ideally with experience on cross-functional product teams.

  • 2+ of those years focused on Design Systems work within a dedicated Design Systems team.

  • Experience collaborating with designers, DS engineers, and system users during development of accessible, composable components with interfaces aligned across design and other supported platforms.

  • Experience guiding DS designers by providing engineering platform requirements, accessibility requirements, implementation examples from other systems, and exploratory code prototyping.

  • Hands-on experience migrating new components or breaking changes into a consuming application.

Bonus if you have
  • Experience with contribution models. You’ve worked at a company where product teams actively contribute to a shared design system, and you’ve helped make that work well.

  • Experience with LLM context engineering.

  • Previous experience in service industries, agencies, or other customer-focused environments. We value invention, pragmatism, hustle, and empathy. We exist to make our product development teams more effective.

For this role, the target base salary range in San Francisco is $156,000-$195,000 annually. This role is also eligible for equity and benefits. In general, our ranges reflect the market-based target for new hire salaries based on the level and location of the role. Within the range, individual pay is determined by objective factors assessed during the application and interview process, such as job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. We encourage you to talk with your recruiter to learn more about the total compensation and benefits available for this role.

Turo highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule — Turists will be expected to work in the office 3 days per week on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursday. Turo considers working in the office at least 3 days per week to be an essential function of this hybrid role. Your recruiter can share more information about the various in-office perks Turo offers.

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Benefits
  • Competitive salary, equity, benefits, and perks for all full-time employees

  • Employer-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance (Country specific)

  • Retirement employer match

  • Learning & Development stipend to invest in your professional development

  • Turo host matching program

  • Turo travel credit

  • Cell phone and internet stipend

  • Paid time off to relax and recharge

  • Paid holidays, volunteer time off, and parental leave

  • For those who are in the office full-time or hybrid we have in-office lunch, office snacks, and fun activities

We are committed to building a diverse team. If you are from a background that's underrepresented in tech, we'd love to meet you.

Aside from an award winning work environment and the opportunity to be part of the world’s largest car sharing marketplace, we are also growing the team quickly - join us!  Even if you don't meet every qualification, we are looking for people with enthusiasm for what we do and we will consider you for this and other possibilities.

About Turo

Turo is a peer-to-peer car sharing company headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company was founded in 2009 by Shelby Clark and has since grown to over 10 million users in over 5,500 cities worldwide. Turo allows car owners to rent out their personal vehicles to other users, providing an alternative to traditional car rental companies. The company offers a variety of vehicles, from economy cars to luxury vehicles and sports cars.
Learn more about Turo
Size
200 employees
Industry
Founded
2009

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