Design Engineer – Design System
Hex
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • California, New York • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $170,000 - $240,000 per year
Job Level
SeniorLead
Tech Stack
ReactTypeScript
About the role
- Own and lead the design system.
- Build for scale and quality.
- Raise the bar through collaboration.
- Prototype and explore.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in front-end engineering or design engineering, ideally on a product or design system team
- A strong eye for design, with deep care for layout, motion, affordances, and visual polish
- Expertise in modern front-end technologies, especially Typescript, React, component-driven architectures, and accessibility best practices
- Experience building or maintaining design systems, tokens, components, documentation, governance models
- A portfolio showing UI engineering craft, component thinking, and prototyping ability
- A systems mindset: you think in primitives and abstractions, not one-off solutions
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to articulate rationale and influence cross-functionally
- A collaborative, open-minded approach and comfort working with partners across levels
- Strong attention to detail and a commitment to quality, without losing momentum
- Bonus: experience going deep on major and minor frontend performance problems
Benefits
- market-benched salary & equity
- comprehensive health benefits
- flexible paid time off
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
front-end engineeringdesign engineeringTypescriptReactcomponent-driven architecturesaccessibility best practicesdesign systemsprototypingUI engineeringfrontend performance
Soft skills
communication skillscollaborationopen-minded approachattention to detailcommitment to quality