Design Engineer: Design Systems & Front-End Craft (Remote)

Nord Security; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Training & mentorship

Flexible vacation & sick leave

Premium healthcare

Work from anywhere

Team events

Job summary

Nord Security is seeking a Design Engineer to advance Aurora, our multi-brand design system. You will drive component kits (ReactKit, AstroKit, AppKit) and interoperate with design and development teams to deliver polished, accessible UI across platforms.

You’ll own technical implementation, contribute to interactions and motion, and improve tooling like Storybook. This role emphasizes design automation and scalable design pipelines.

Qualifications

• Proven experience building, maintaining, and scaling design systems.
• Strong product design fundamentals and ability to make sound design decisions independently.
• Proficiency in JavaScript, modern CSS (TailwindCSS), and semantic HTML.
• Figma fluency with design-to-code translation; plugin experience is a plus.
• Experience with Storybook.js for component development and testing.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and evolve Aurora component kits across web and native platforms.
• Contribute to Aurora’s visual and interaction language in code and Figma.
• Build internal design tooling (Figma plugins, CLI utilities, CI checks).
• Champion design automation and testing strategies within the design engineering context.
• Enable teams to adopt the Aurora design system effectively.
• Bridge design and code, prototyping interactions and ensuring performant UI components.
• Craft engaging interactions and ensure WCAG AA accessibility.

Skills

Design system

Design craft

Frontend proficiency

Figma fluency

Storybook.js

Collaboration

Design tools

Tools

ReactKit

AstroKit

AppKit

Job description

Nord Security is seeking a Design Engineer to advance Aurora, our multi-brand design system. You will drive component kits (ReactKit, AstroKit, AppKit) and interoperate with design and development teams to deliver polished, accessible UI across platforms.

You’ll own technical implementation, contribute to interactions and motion, and improve tooling like Storybook. This role emphasizes design automation and scalable design pipelines.