Staff Design Systems Engineer
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Based in the United StatesFull-TimeStaff
Salary$164,000–$195,000
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Job Details
- Experience
- 6+ years
- Required Skills
- FigmaTypeScriptReactRESTful APIs
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in design systems, UX engineering, or frontend engineering with strong design fluency.
- Proven experience building and scaling design systems in collaboration with product and engineering teams.
- Strong proficiency in modern frontend technologies such as React, TypeScript, and component-driven development (e.g., Storybook).
- Hands-on experience working with design tools such as Figma, design tokens, and component libraries.
- Strong technical fluency in APIs, automation workflows, and system integration.
- Experience contributing to production code and working closely with engineers in implementation-heavy environments.
- Deep understanding of accessibility standards (WCAG AA) and UI quality across interaction states and patterns.
- Experience experimenting with AI-assisted design and development tools (e.g., LLM-based workflows, design-to-code automation).
- Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to drive alignment across design and engineering teams.
- Portfolio demonstrating shipped systems work, component libraries, and measurable product impact.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain reusable, accessible UI components, design tokens, and interaction patterns used across web and mobile products.
- Contribute directly to production code and enable designers to ship production-ready implementations using modern tooling and AI-assisted workflows.
- Define and evolve the organization’s design language, including typography, color systems, iconography, and UI standards.
- Develop and document scalable design system architecture, governance models, and contribution frameworks.
- Partner with engineering and product design to improve design-to-code pipelines and reduce friction in delivery.
- Create internal tooling, documentation, and guidelines to support adoption of design systems and AI-powered workflows.
- Establish accessibility standards (WCAG AA) and ensure compliance is embedded into system components by default.
- Evaluate emerging design and AI tools, recommending adoption strategies while balancing innovation with long-term stability.
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