Lead Design Engineer
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StepFintech
Remote (US) or San Mateo, CAFull-TimeLead
Salary not disclosed
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- FigmaReact Native
Requirements
- Significant experience building and evolving design systems for modern consumer software products
- Strong frontend engineering experience building reusable component libraries and design infrastructure
- Deep understanding of design tokens, component architecture, accessibility, documentation, and modern design system best practices
- Strong understanding of Figma and how modern design teams build and maintain systems
- A systems thinker who naturally looks beyond individual components to improve the entire product development workflow
- An exceptional eye for visual detail and a passion for building interfaces that feel polished and intentional
- Ability to collaborate equally with designers and engineers and comfortably speak both languages
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence technical and product decisions across disciplines
- Curiosity about AI and emerging design tools
- Experience shipping high-quality mobile or web applications
- A portfolio or examples of work demonstrating both technical execution and thoughtful design systems thinking
Responsibilities
- Own the connection between our design system and production code, ensuring they evolve together rather than separately
- Build and maintain reusable components, design tokens, and shared foundations across iOS, Android, and Web
- Partner closely with Product Designers to translate high-fidelity designs into production-quality components with exceptional visual accuracy
- Collaborate with Engineering to create scalable component architecture that is flexible, performant, accessible, and easy for teams to adopt
- Continuously improve our design-to-code workflow through better tooling, automation, documentation, and developer experience
- Develop systems that allow designers and engineers to move faster while maintaining an exceptionally high bar for quality and consistency
- Improve governance around component APIs, tokens, naming conventions, versioning, and adoption across teams
- Review implementations, identify opportunities to improve the design system, and raise the overall quality of our products
- Explore and build AI-powered workflows that improve how we design, build, document, and maintain our products
- Help shape the future of how product development happens at Step
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