Design Systems Engineer (Remote, Recife)

Blacksmith Agency LLC; Brasil; Remote; BRL 448,000 - 598,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work (LATAM)

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency LLC is seeking a senior Design Systems Engineer to lead token architecture in Figma and build robust component libraries that scale across multiple client brands. You will document the system so automation can run it end-to-end while collaborating with teams across different U.S.

clients. You must have 4+ years designing for the web with formal design systems work, fluency in Figma variables and auto layout, and a portfolio showing rigorous work across diverse brands, plus

Qualifications

• 4+ years designing for the web with design system work in portfolio.
• Fluency with Figma variables, component properties, auto layout and variants.
• Portfolio shows multi-client work with consistent underlying rigor.
• Strong English and overlap with US business hours.

Responsibilities

• Build token architecture in Figma using variables, modes, and semantic naming for pipeline readability.
• Ship core component libraries that endure across entire sites, not just pages.
• Document the system so developers or automated pipelines can execute it without questions.
• Collaborate across several client brands with consistency and rigor.

Skills

Design systems

Figma

Portfolio development

English proficiency

Tools

Figma tokens

Auto layout

Job description

About The Role

Blacksmith Agency builds websites and marketing programs for clients across the US. As Design Systems Engineer at Blacksmith, you own how our client design systems get built. You take a brand and a few reference sites, then extract the pattern into a working system: tokens, variables, modes, and core components a build pipeline can execute without asking you questions. Precision is the job.

This is a senior, systems-first seat. Not one-off pages, not maintenance. You stand up new systems fast and get them right the first time, across several client brands at once.

Blacksmith Agency

• Design
• Full time
• Remote (Latin America)

What You Will Own

• Build token architecture in Figma using variables, modes, and semantic naming our pipeline can read predictably.
• Ship core component libraries that hold up across an entire site, not just a homepage.
• Document the system so a developer or an automated pipeline can execute it without questions.
• Work across several client brands at once, each looking distinctly different, with the same structural rigor.

What You Bring

• 4+ years designing for the web, with real design system work in your portfolio.
• Fluency in Figma variables, component properties, auto layout, and variants. Actual architecture, not just tidy files.
• A portfolio where the work looks different from client to client but the rigor underneath is the same.
• Strong English and overlap with US business hours.