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In this role, you will combine technical leadership, hands-on engineering, and cross-functional collaboration. Together with other colleagues, you will build a scalable foundation that enables our product teams to efficiently deliver consistent, accessible, and high-quality experiences. To achieve this, you will be balancing technical solutions with stakeholder management - staying ambitious yet pragmatic with the product. Likewise, you will be fundamental in creating followership across the broader organization, in ensuring its implementation, adaptability and recognition.\nBecoming our new colleague means becoming a 3Shaper. Here we work to improve treatment and diagnostics for dental patients. We do this by providing innovative 3D scanners and advanced software for dental professionals that improve dental care and patients’ lives worldwide.\nKey responsibilities\nChampion continuous improvement in how we develop, drive and implement the Lighthouse Design System, ensuring high ambition yet pragmatic approach to the result.\n\nCreating followership, by enabling product teams to adopt, contribute to, and get value from the Lighthouse Design System.\n\nRaise the engineering bar across front-end teams, by establishing scalable engineering standards, patterns, and quality practices across web, mobile, and on-premise software solutions.\n\nOwn and mature our internal component library - balancing scalability, usability, performance, and maintainability.\n\nPartner with Product Portfolio Strategy and the Design System UX Lead, to ensure technical robustness, business impact and end-user value.\n\nMentor and coach engineers that contribute to the Lighthouse Design System along with staying hands-on during key technical initiatives.\n\nWhat are we looking for?\n10+ years software engineering experience, with significant experience in design system management and front-end development having held a similar principal or staff-level engineering role.\n\nProven ability to influence technical adoption and direction for Design System adoption in an organization with many technical and non-technical stakeholders.\n\nStrong experience with Angular / TypeScript and modern front-end engineering. If you have experience working with multiple architectural design patterns across multiple tech-stacks, it is considered a plus.\n\nStrong experience with building and maintaining component libraries, design systems, or platform-like products serving multiple teams and the ability to establish clear approaches for ownership boundaries, versioning, and backwards compatibility.\n\nExperience mentoring engineers and contributing to a strong engineering culture.\n\nExperience of working closely together with designers and product managers and navigating technical trade-offs across multiple stakeholders.\n\nExperience in applying AI-assisted development tools and workflows to improve engineering productivity, code quality, and developer experience, while maintaining strong technical standards and human oversight.\n\nExperience with improving developer experience through tooling, automation, documentation, or processes. To improve the way teams, contribute to and adopt the design system.\n\nA pragmatic and hands-on approach, with a passion for building simple and scalable solutions to complex problems.\n\nWe offer\nA vibrant and international environment with social, diverse, and highly skilled and cooperative colleagues - we are more than 40 nationalities in our DK based office.\n\nAn attractive healthcare package to keep you fit and well.\n\nBreakfast every day, and a delicious, healthy lunch cooked by our private chefs.\n\nWe provide a great social work environment with many voluntary activities and social clubs, ranging from wine & beer, board games and running to bicycle clubs.\n\nAttractive offices and R&D lab spaces in downtown Copenhagen close to Kgs. Nytorv, Nyhavn, and the Copenhagen Canals.\n\nA clear, shared purpose: Help improve dental patient care on a global scale.\n\nGet in touch now!\nPlease do not hesitate to apply for this exciting opportunity at one of Denmark’s most successful and fastest growing high-tech companies, as applications will be processed continuously.\nYou don’t need to meet every criteria to be successful in this role. If you bring strong experience working with design systems, are excited by the opportunity to shape a design system on a large scale and can see yourself growing in the other areas then we do encourage you to apply.\nWe encourage all relevant applicants to apply. We are committed to celebrating human diversity, and we trust that the best way to reach outstanding business results, is by welcoming diverse people into our community.\nAbout us\n3Shape started with a simple idea - to make 3D scanning better. First, we applied it to the hearing industry, then we succeeded in dentistry. Twenty years later, 3Shape has 2,000+ employees globally. With the help of dental professionals and amazing colleagues we’re creating award-winning scanning and CAD/CAM solutions to change dentistry together! Together, we contribute to a better world. 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