Serko is a cutting-edge tech platform in global business travel & expense technology. When you join Serko, you become part of a team of passionate travellers and technologists bringing people together, using the world’s leading business travel marketplace.

We are proud to be an equal-opportunity employer, we embrace the richness of diversity, showing up authentically to create a positive impact. 

With offices in New Zealand, Australia, North America, and China, we are thrilled to be expanding our global footprint, landing our new hub in Bengaluru, India. With rapid a growth plan in place for India, we’re hiring people from different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives to help us build a world-class team and product.

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer – Design System to help shape the future of front-end development at Serko. In this role, you'll be part of the team that defines how our organisation engages with our Design System while delivering highly usable, accessible, and performant UI components that support fast, consistent experiences across our products.

You’ll work closely with engineers, designers, and product teams to evolve a modern component library and supporting workflows that enable scalable, high-quality software development. This includes championing best practices, contributing to internal tooling, and building a feedback-friendly culture.

You’ll join our Engineering organisation and be embedded within a cross-functional team dedicated to the Design System. You'll also play a key role in mentoring others and improving how Serko designs and delivers user experiences across applications.

What you'll do

• Define how Serko teams interact with and adopt the Design System.
• Build and maintain high-quality, accessible, and responsive React components.
• Support engineering teams through onboarding, training, and integration support.
• Collaborate with designers to align UI implementation with Figma libraries.
• Champion performant, accessibile, and scalable front-end component architecture.
• Write clean, well-documented code with a strong emphasis on testing and automation.
• Contribute to continuous improvement in tools, standards, and workflows.
• Mentor and support engineers who are early in their careers or new to Serko.

What you'll bring

• Strong experience building and maintaining UI across different devices (desktop, mobile, tablet).
• Expert-level knowledge of front-end technologies: React, CSS/CSS-in-JS or Tailwind, semantic HTML, TypeScript, NodeJS.
• Deep understanding of React composition and reusable component patterns.
• Hands-on experience with tooling such as Webpack, Vite, Jest or Vitest, Testing Library, Storybook, Cypress or Playwright.
• Strong communication skills — you can distil complex UI needs into clear, actionable solutions.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines to support design system automation is a plus.
• Openness to learning and sharing in a respectful, inclusive team environment.

At Serko we aim to create a place where people can come and do their best work.  This means you’ll be operating in an environment with great tools and support to enable you to perform at the highest level of your abilities, producing high-quality, and delivering innovative and efficient results.

Our people are fully engaged, continuously improving, and encouraged to make an impact.

Some of the benefits of working at Serko are:

• A competitive base salary and discretionary incentive plan based on individual and company performance
• KiwiSaver covered with employee contributions match up to 3% of salary, and life insurance.
• Health & Wellbeing: Discounted Southern Cross Health Insurance, access to confidential support, guidance and counselling service, wellbeing and voluntary leave, and free flu shots.
• Parental Leave Coverage: 20 weeks on full pay, return-to-work support, plus partners 3 weeks of paid leave.
• Focus on development: Access to a learning & development platform, committed budget and opportunity for you to own your career pathways.

• Be part of a company that embraces the use of AI tooling to enhance how we work and build our products.