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Senior Software Engineer, Accessibility

Europe | Berlin | Germany

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Technical Requirements

ReactTypeScriptStorybookaxe-corePlaywrightCypressWCAGLLM

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.
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