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Design Engineer (remote)

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📍 Location: Spain

🔍 Industry: Software Development

🏢 Company: Appfire Technologies, LLC.

🪄 Skills: FigmaFrontend DevelopmentGitCSSJavascriptReact.jsTypeScriptReactCI/CD

Requirements:
  • Solid, proven hands-on experience in front-end development, with a strong emphasis on building and maintaining scalable design systems.
  • Solid, proven experience leading high-impact design system initiatives across multiple products or platforms.
  • Proficiency in React, TypeScript, and modern CSS-in-JS methodologies (e.g., styled-components, Emotion).
  • Hands-on experience with Figma, including managing component libraries, design tokens, and ensuring consistency across design and code.
  • A solid understanding of accessibility standards and a track record of implementing inclusive design practices.
  • Experience balancing the immediate needs of feature development with the long-term vision and scalability of design systems.
  • Strong organizational skills, capable of leading or contributing to multiple projects simultaneously.
  • Proficiency in Git and version control workflows, with experience in collaborative codebases.
  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate design and technical decisions to diverse stakeholders, including executive-level audiences.
Responsibilities:
  • Create design components that are highly usable and flexible for designers, meet the needs of product teams, and are easy for engineers to use to create consistent user interfaces.
  • Become an authority on our visual design language, extending upon our existing systems—such as our color systems, navigation components, and interaction patterns.
  • Design experiences that work across multiple platforms and different product ecosystems, and text-based interfaces such as CLI.
  • Seek regular input and propose new areas of work with compelling reasoning, and execute on them.
  • Advocate for, and teach other designers and engineers how to use our design systems.
  • Seek and provide design feedback and direction with your coworkers.
  • Seek out opportunities for connecting with people and teams working on related projects.
  • Build meaningful relationships across the product, engineering, and other cross-functional partners you're working with.
  • Develop and maintain a comprehensive React component library using TypeScript and CSS-in-JS methodologies.
  • Manage and evolve Figma component libraries and design tokens to ensure consistency and scalability.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate design systems seamlessly into product development workflows.
  • Implement and advocate for accessibility standards (WCAG) in both design and code.
  • Conduct code reviews and provide mentorship to team members on best practices in design system implementation.
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