About the role
- You will drive execution and promote DS partnerships and deliverables: baseline audit, prioritise remediation, DS coverage, CI automation, and production monitoring.
- Ship technical fixes and lead cross-team remediation efforts.
- Partner with Design System, Product, Design, Legal, and External Audit provider to embed accessibility in workflows.
- Educate specific team members to drive accessibility standards in their org.
- Run user testing with assistive tech and integrate findings into product decisions.
- Design and operate AI-assisted tooling to scale audits and remediation (with human-in-the-loop guardrails).
- You will consider the long-term direction of the team, making sure that we are developing the engineering capabilities that will allow us to stay ahead of the challenges we are likely to encounter in 6-12 months' time.
What we're looking for:
- At least five (5) years of experience as a software engineer, at least 3 on the senior/lead level.
- Proven track record driving accessibility for a large web application (measurable results).
- Deep frontend expertise (React/TS), Storybook, axe-core/pa11y, Playwright/Cypress.
- Knowledge of WCAG requirements.
- Strong cross-org influence and communication skills.
- Experience integrating accessibility into continuous Integration flows and Design System
- Experience with LLM/AI tools applied to accessibility audits and remediation.
Nice to haves:
- Design skills (i.e. Figma) would be a nice to have.
- Experience with media/video accessibility (captions, audio descriptions, player controls).
- Prior experience building accessibility teams or programs.