Senior Design Engineer

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Senior Design Engineer building Front’s design system across Figma, Storybook, and production code. Improving accessible UI consistency for Front’s B2B customer operations platform.

Responsibilities:

  • Own and evolve Front’s design system across Figma, Storybook, and production code
  • Build, refactor, and maintain reusable, accessible, well-documented UI components
  • Identify and reduce design/code drift across component libraries, legacy UI patterns, and the Figma system
  • Establish patterns, conventions, and guardrails improving consistency, accessibility, maintainability, and developer experience
  • Prototype interaction patterns and reference implementations in code
  • Partner with Product Designers, Product Managers, and Engineers on complex workflows, edge cases, and enterprise-grade product experiences
  • Use AI tools thoughtfully to accelerate prototyping, iteration, production changes, and system maintenance
  • Influence Product, Design, and Engineering teams as a hands-on senior individual contributor

Requirements:

  • 6+ years of experience designing and building production frontend experiences, ideally in complex B2B SaaS, enterprise software, developer tools, or similarly deep product domains
  • Strong frontend engineering skills with modern web technologies and component-based architecture
  • Ability to ramp quickly in a large, mature codebase
  • High UI/UX craft and strong product taste
  • Experience building or maintaining component libraries, Storybook documentation, visual regression workflows, design-token pipelines, Figma workflows/plugins, or similar design-engineering infrastructure
  • Strong accessibility fundamentals, including semantic HTML, ARIA patterns, keyboard interaction models, focus management, and inclusive component states
  • Strong communication skills
  • Portfolio or body of work showing shipped design-engineering impact
  • Experience working on products with a large existing frontend surface area, multiple product teams, and a mature or evolving design system
  • Experience in customer support, customer operations, collaboration software, internal tools, developer tools, or other workflow-heavy SaaS products
  • Experience consolidating fragmented component libraries or aligning Figma libraries with production code
  • Experience using AI-assisted coding or design tools to accelerate prototyping, refactoring, and product iteration

Benefits:

  • Equity
  • Private health insurance, including plan options at no cost to employees
  • Paid parental leave
  • Flexible time off policy
  • Flexibility to work from home Monday and Friday, unless posted as a fully remote role
  • Mental health support with Workplace Options
  • Family planning support with Maven
  • $100 per month Lifestyle Stipend to spend on fitness, health and wellness, and other activities
  • Wellness Days - Fronteers get an additional day off on months with no holidays
  • Winter Break - Our offices are closed from Christmas to New Year's Day!