Staff Design Engineer

Juniper Square

Staff Design Engineer defining the design system strategy and AI integrations at Juniper Square. Collaborating across Design, Engineering, and Product to enhance usability and efficiency.

Posted 7/31/2026full-timeRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $190,000 - $240,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive experience in building and scaling design systems, integrating AI tools into design-to-engineering workflows, and establishing technical direction for UI quality. Strong leadership and communication skills are essential for aligning cross-functional teams around a shared vision.

Highest-signal resume keywords

Design System StrategyFront-End Engineering (TypeScript, React, CSS)AI Tool IntegrationTechnical Direction for UI QualityCommunication and Influence Skills

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Hard Skills

Design System GovernanceFront-End EngineeringTypeScriptReactCSSAI Tool IntegrationTechnical StrategyDesign-to-Engineering WorkflowsProduction Code ProficiencyQuality Standards Definition

Soft Skills

Leadership ImpactCollaborationInfluence

Tools & Technologies

CursorClaude CodeV0.dev

Industry Keywords

Design SystemsUI QualityGovernanceWorkflow OptimizationProduct Organization

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

ReactTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the design system strategy and roadmap: define what the system needs to become, set priorities, establish governance, and build the contribution model that makes it sustainable as the team and product grow.
Define the AI enablement strategy for design-to-engineering: determine how AI tools are integrated into the workflow from prototype to production, and build the systems that make the whole team faster and higher-quality.
Set the technical direction for UI quality across the product: define what good looks like, establish the standards and processes that maintain it, and make the case for that standard across design and engineering leadership.
Identify systemic quality gaps: look across the product surface and name the patterns no one else is naming, then build the plan to address them.
Build the infrastructure that lets designers ship in code: not by doing it yourself, but by creating the workflows, tooling, and templates that make it a sustainable part of the design team's practice.
Partner with Design and Engineering leadership to shape the long-term direction of how the two functions collaborate, where the boundaries are, and how they evolve.

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years of experience working across design and front-end engineering, with a portfolio that demonstrates both craft and leadership impact.
Proven experience building and scaling design systems: owning the roadmap, governance, and adoption strategy across a product organization, not just contributing components.
A strong, defensible point of view on what makes a great design system, backed by experience driving adoption across a product organization: not just building it, but getting designers and engineers to actually use it.
Deep front-end engineering skills (TypeScript, React, CSS) alongside genuine design taste. Comfortable reading and writing production code, but leading through judgment rather than throughput.
Experience defining technical strategy for design tooling, developer experience, or design-to-engineering workflows.
Experience thinking through how AI tools change team-level design and engineering workflows, and building systems or processes around that.
Strong communication and influence skills: can align design leadership, engineering leadership, and product around a shared technical direction without formal authority.
Fluency with AI-powered coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code, v0.dev, or equivalent) as part of your core workflow.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health, dental, and vision care for you and your family
Life insurance
Mental wellness coverage
Fertility and growing family support
Flex Time Off in addition to company-paid holidays
Paid family leave, medical leave, and bereavement leave policies
Retirement saving plans
Allowance to customize your work and technology setup at home
Annual professional development stipend