Assistant Vice President Lead Frontend Engineer
DBS Bank Ltd is a Singapore-based bank providing personal, SME, corporate, institutional, wealth management, financial markets, and digital banking services. Its clients include consumers, small and medium-sized businesses, corporations, and institutional customers.
About DBS Bank Ltd
DBS Bank Ltd provides banking products and services including accounts, cards, insurance, loans, investments, digital banking, payments, trade finance, foreign exchange, commodities, investment solutions, and derivatives clearing. Through its SME business, it supports businesses with financing, cash-flow management, online banking through DBS IDEAL, sustainability programmes, and business-growth initiatives. The bank serves personal customers, SMEs, corporate and institutional clients, and wealth-management customers across its regional markets.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will lead the design and maintenance of a framework-agnostic UI design system and reusable component library. You will standardize user journeys, guide migrations, optimize page performance, and implement theming systems that support multiple brands, dark and light modes, and accessible color palettes.
Requirements
- 8+ years of UI design, component engineering, or product engineering experience
- 5+ years leading or architecting large-scale design systems
- 3+ years in a senior or leadership role
- React
- Angular
- Webpack
- Vite
- CSS
- web performance optimization
- WCAG 2.1
- Figma
- Storybook
- Git
- testing frameworks
- build optimization
- TypeScript
- Banking or FinTech experience preferred
- Mobile and responsive design
- Micro-frontend architecture
- Cross-functional leadership
- Communication
- Mentorship
- Governance
- Problem-solving
Responsibilities
- Lead and maintain a framework-agnostic UI design system
- Ensure UI components meet accessibility and design standards
- Standardize user journeys across APAC markets
- Design architectures that support regional variation within a unified codebase
- Lead migration to the standardized component library
- Optimize UI and page-load performance through code splitting, image optimization, and build-pipeline enhancements
- Design and implement a theming system for multi-brand, dark-mode, light-mode, and accessible styling