Design Engineer
New
U.S.-based preferred., Core overlap hours required.Full-TimeMiddle
Salary185,000 - 230,000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 6+ years
- Required Skills
- FigmaCSSTypeScriptReactNotion
Requirements
- 6+ years building production-ready frontend code in complex, component-driven applications
- Deep expertise in TypeScript
- Deep expertise in React
- Deep expertise in modern CSS (we use Tailwind)
- Strong opinions about component architecture, performance, and maintainability
- A portfolio or body of work that demonstrates both technical depth and design sensibility
- Proven experience building and maintaining design systems in production
- Familiarity with tools like Base UI, Storybook, and Figma Code Connect is a plus
- Exposure to microfrontend architectures is a bonus
- Exposure to Vite is a bonus
- Exposure to composition APIs is a bonus
- A track record of building internal tools, developer experience improvements, or workflow automation
- Technical fluency with AI tools (Claude Code, Cursor or similar)
- Familiarity with MCPs and how tools like Figma, Figma Console, and Notion connect into AI-assisted workflows
Responsibilities
- Own the integrity of the design system across Figma and code (React components, tokens, patterns)
- Ensure the design system library stays in sync with production and evolves over time in Figma
- Close the gap between design specs and production reality
- Ensure UI quality across the product, including transitions, micro-interactions, responsive behavior, loading states, edge case UI, and accessibility
- Build tools and processes to improve design and engineering team collaboration, prototyping, and shipping
- Create internal tooling, prototyping workflows, component documentation, and dev environment improvements
- Ship production-ready code for design system components, UI improvements, or internal tooling
- Partner closely with product designers to make design strategy real with high craft
- Work directly with frontend and full-stack engineers, establishing patterns and components
- Review UI implementations and raise the standard for what "done" looks like in the codebase
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