Senior Design Systems Engineer — Remote

Blacksmith Agency LLC; Ciudad Juárez; Hybrid; MXN 1,685,000 - 2,434,000; Full time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency in Mexico seeks a senior Design Systems Engineer to own how client design systems are built. You will turn a brand and reference sites into a repeatable system of tokens, variables, modes, and core components that a build pipeline can run with precision.

This is a senior, systems-first role across multiple client brands, requiring strong English, US business hours overlap, and a portfolio showing firm design system work with scalable, cross-brand consistency.

Qualifications

• 4+ years designing for the web with real design system work in portfolio.
• Fluency in Figma variables, component properties, auto layout and variants; architecture, not just tidy files.
• Portfolio showing work across clients with consistent rigor.
• Strong English and overlap with US business hours.

Responsibilities

• 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 automated pipeline can execute it without questions.
• Work across several client brands at once, each looking distinctly different, with the same structural rigor.

Skills

4+ years web design

Design systems

Token architecture

Component libraries

Documentation

English proficiency

Tools

Figma

Job description

Blacksmith Agency in Mexico seeks a senior Design Systems Engineer to own how client design systems are built. You will turn a brand and reference sites into a repeatable system of tokens, variables, modes, and core components that a build pipeline can run with precision.

This is a senior, systems-first role across multiple client brands, requiring strong English, US business hours overlap, and a portfolio showing firm design system work with scalable, cross-brand consistency.