Emerging Careers Software Developer, Design Systems

<h2></h2> <p><strong>Senior Associate Software Developer, Design System </strong><strong>– Hybrid, Cary, North Carolina or Remote in EST time zone</strong></p> <p> </p> <p>We’re a leader in data and AI. Through our software and services, we inspire customers around the world to transform data into intelligence – and questions into answers. </p> <p> </p> <p>If you’re looking for a dynamic, fulfilling career with flexibility and a world-class employee experience, you’ll find it here. We’re recognized around the world for our inclusive, meaningful culture and innovative technologies by organizations like Fast Company, Forbes, Newsweek and more.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>About the job  </strong> </p> <p>The Digital Experience organization in R&D is seeking a Front-End Developer to join the team creating SAS’s newest component offering in its design system, Filament. You’ll apply your front-end development expertise to build and maintain the components that power SAS’s marketing and post-purchase experiences. You’ll partner with designers, the Developer Lead, and cross-functional teams to implement accessible, performant components based on design specifications, working within an established design system while contributing to its evolution. You’ll have the opportunity to impact how customers experience SAS digital properties at global scale.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>As a Sr. Associate Software Developer, Design Systems, you will: </strong>  </p> <ul> <li>Develop front-end components based on design specifications, ensuring implementations match design intent and meet quality, performance, and accessibility standards.</li> <li>Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code following established patterns, conventions, and best practices for the component library.</li> <li>Implement responsive, accessible components that meet WCAG compliance standards and work seamlessly across browsers, devices, and assistive technologies.</li> <li>Collaborate with designers to refine component specifications, provide technical feasibility input, and ensure smooth design-to-development handoff.</li> <li>Participate in code reviews, providing and receiving constructive feedback to maintain code quality and share knowledge across the team.</li> <li>Write unit tests, integration tests, and accessibility tests to ensure component reliability and prevent regressions.</li> <li>Contribute to component documentation in Storybook, including usage guidelines, prop specifications, and interactive examples.</li> <li>Consume and extend Filament design tokens and foundational components, ensuring consistency with the broader design system.</li> <li>Participate in sprint planning, estimation, and retrospectives.</li> <li>Be encouraged to participate in open-source projects on behalf of SAS. </li> <li>Ensure all applicable security policies and processes are followed to support the organization’s secure software development goals. </li> <li>Embrace curiosity, passion, authenticity and accountability. These are our values and influence everything we do.</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>Required qualifications</strong> </p> <ul> <li>Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical field (or equivalent practical experience)</li> <li>2-3 years of front-end development experience</li> <li>Experience with modern front-end technologies including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, component frameworks such as React and meta-frameworks like Next.js, and Web Components, with hands-on experience building component-based architectures</li> <li>Strong understanding of responsive design, CSS layout techniques, cross-browser compatibility, and accessible web development, including WCAG standards and assistive technology considerations</li> <li>Experience with collaborative engineering practices including Git-based version control, team-based development workflows, effective communication with designers and developers, and exposure to Agile software development practices</li> <li>Familiarity with emerging technologies and tooling, including the current AI and agentic AI landscape, supported by an available code portfolio, GitHub profile, or work samples demonstrating component development, responsiveness, and accessibility</li> <li>Equivalent combination of related education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications. </li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>Additional competencies, knowledge and skills  </strong></p> <ul> <li>Evaluates alternatives and risks—Assesses options against clear decision criteria while considering implications and consequences.</li> <li>Takes action—Initiates action to correct quality problems or notifies others of quality issues as appropriate.</li> <li>Ensures high quality—Dedicates required time and energy to assignments or tasks to ensure that no aspect of the work is neglected; works to overcome obstacles to completing tasks or assignments.</li> <li>Experience with design systems or component library development, including familiarity with design tokens, CSS architecture patterns, theming systems, and component documentation tools such as Storybook</li> <li>Strong understanding of front-end architecture and development practices, including single-page and multi-page application approaches, TypeScript and type-safe development, and modern build tools and package managers</li> <li>Experience with quality and delivery practices, including automated testing frameworks and exposure to Agile software development methodologies</li> <li>Familiarity with building globally scalable front-end solutions, including internationalization and localization considerations</li> </ul> <p><strong>World-class benefits </strong>  </p> <p>Highlights include... </p> <ul> <li>Comprehensive medical, prescription, dental and vision plans.  </li> <li>Medical plan options include: <ul> <li>PPO with low annual deductible and copays.  </li> <li>HDHP combined with a health savings account with a contribution from SAS (no access to on-site health care center).  </li> </ul></li> <li>Onsite Health Care Center (HQ) that’s free to employees and family members enrolled in the PPO plan. There’s a pharmacy too! Not local to HQ? The pharmacy will ship prescriptions for no additional charge!  </li> <li>An industry-leading 401k plan.  </li> <li>Tuition Assistance Program and programs and resources to support your development</li> <li>Generous time away including vacation time, a variety of paid holidays, and our much-loved U.S. Winter Wellness Break between December 25 and January 1.  </li> <li>Volunteer Time Off, parental leave and unlimited paid sick days.  </li> <li>Generous childcare benefits for all full-time employees. </li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>You are welcome here. </strong></p> <p>At SAS, it’s not about fitting into our culture – it’s about adding to it. We believe our people make the difference. Our inclusive workforce brings together unique talents and inspires teams to create amazing software that reflects the diversity of our users and customers.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Additional Information</strong> </p> <p>To qualify, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States, and should not require, now or in the future, sponsorship for employment visa status. SAS is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to any characteristic protected by law. Read more: Know Your Rights.</p> <p> </p> <p>Resumes may be considered in the order they are received. SAS employees performing certain job functions may require access to technology or software subject to export or import regulations. To comply with these regulations, SAS may obtain nationality or citizenship information from applicants for employment. SAS collects this information solely for trade law compliance purposes and does not use it to discriminate unfairly in the hiring process. </p> <p> </p> <p><em>SAS only sends emails from verified “sas.com” email addresses and never asks for sensitive, personal information or money. If you have any doubts about the authenticity of any type of communication from, or on behalf of SAS, please contact </em><em>Recruitingsupport@sas.com.</em> </p> <p> </p> <p>Let’s stay in touch! Join our Talent Community to stay up to date on company news, job updates and more.</p>

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