Engineering Manager - Design System

Your mission

At Doctolib, we're building digital health solutions used by more than 90 million patients and 520,000 healthcare professionals across Europe. The quality, consistency, and accessibility of our interfaces are critical to that mission. That's exactly what our Design System team makes possible.

As Engineering Manager of the Design System team, you will lead the engineering efforts behind Oxygen, Doctolib's design system. Oxygen goes far beyond a component library: it is the infrastructure that ensures design quality at scale and delivers our brand identity consistently across an AI-first development environment. With over 50 designers and several hundred engineers building across multiple markets and product surfaces, your work directly shapes the experience of every user who interacts with Doctolib.

Working at the intersection of Design and Engineering, you will partner with designers, product managers, and engineers to turn our Design System vision into scalable technical solutions that power consistent, high-quality user interfaces across all Doctolib products.

What you'll do

• Define your team's vision, strategy, and roadmap alongside your Product partner, bringing strong technical perspectives to shape and challenge priorities, and take end-to-end ownership of engineering delivery and quality.

• Lead the technical design, development, and evolution of Oxygen, ensuring its components and foundations are accessible, robust, reusable, and scalable across our products.

• Champion an AI-first approach, exploring and scaling AI-powered tools and workflows that help designers and engineers build high-quality user interfaces more efficiently.

• Establish and promote UI and accessibility engineering best practices, working closely with designers, product teams, and our accessibility specialist to drive adoption across the organization.

• Drive technical alignment across engineering teams, fostering collaboration and ensuring the Design System integrates seamlessly across our web and mobile ecosystems.

• Coach, mentor, and develop your engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.

Who you are

If you don’t meet all the requirements below but believe this opportunity matches your expectations and experience, we still encourage you to apply!

You could be our next teammate if you:

• You have at least 8+ years of software engineering experience, combined with 2-3 + years of management experience

• Have experience leading, coaching, and developing engineers, helping them grow while fostering a strong engineering culture.

• Understand the value of design systems and have experience creating, maintaining, or contributing to component libraries that scale across multiple teams

• Have a strong understanding of UI engineering principles and experience building consistent, high-quality user interfaces across web and mobile platforms, working closely with designers.

• Adapt quickly to change, embracing uncertainty and consistently solving problems to achieve meaningful outcomes.

• Are committed to accessibility and understand the importance of building inclusive user experiences that comply with WCAG guidelines

• Have proven experience developing maintainable and secure products with a focus on code quality, testing, and documentation

• Your English skills allow you to have high quality daily interactions with the team. German or French are a plus.

Now, it would be fantastic if you:

• Have experience improving developer experience and driving the adoption of shared UI components and tooling across engineering teams.

• Have worked with cross-platform design systems, understanding the challenges of maintaining consistency across web and native mobile applications.

• Know how to implement frontend monitoring and observability to improve UI reliability and performance.

• Have contributed to open source or maintained internal tools/libraries

Life at Doctolib Tech

• Our solutions are built on a single fully cloud-native platform that supports web and mobile app interfaces, multiple languages, and is adapted to country and healthcare specialty requirements.

• Our stack is composed of Rails, TypeScript, Java, Python, Kotlin, Swift, and React Native.

• We leverage AI ethically across our products to empower patients and health professionals. Discover our AI vision here.

Want to learn more about our tech culture and environment? Visit the Doctolib Tech site.

What we offer

• A Deutschlandticket (Germany-wide public transport pass) fully paid for by Doctolib

• 28 vacation days + 1 additional day for each full calendar year of employment (up to a maximum of 30 days)

• Work from abroad for up to 10 days per year thanks to our flexibility days policy

• Company health insurance with great supplementary benefits through our partner Allianz

• Company pension scheme (bAV) through Allianz with an employer subsidy of 40% (15% within the probationary period)

• The Doctolib Parent Care program, which includes one month additional parental leave and much more

• Enrollment in Doctolib's long-term employee value sharing plan called DoctoGrowth

• Free mental health and coaching services through our partner Moka.care

• Subsidized sports membership through our partner Urban Sports Club

• A flexible workplace policy offering both hybrid and office-based mode

• Alongside healthy snacks and our regular breakfast buffet, we provide a subsidized meal benefit

• For caregivers and workers with disabilities, a package including an adaptation of the remote policy, extra days off for medical reasons, and psychological support

• Relocation support in case of international mobility

• Access to the best AI tools for coding, development and dedicated training

The interview process

• Recruiter Interview

• System Design interview

• Behavioral Interview

• EM Case study Interview

• Reference Check

• Offer!

Job details

• Permanent Position 

• Full time 

• Location: Levallois or Berlin or Nantes

• Start Date: As soon as possible

• Remote Policy: Hybrid

If you would like to find out more about tech life at Doctolib, feel free to read our latest Medium blog articles! 

At Doctolib, we believe in improving access to healthcare for everyone - regardless of where you come from, what you look like. This translates into our recruitment process: Doctolib is an equal opportunity employer. We don't just accept diversity at Doctolib, we respect and celebrate it!

The more diverse ideas are heard, the more our product will truly improve healthcare for all. You are welcome to apply to Doctolib, regardless of your gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, ethnicity, disability, or place of origin. If you have a disability, let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process smoother for you! 

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