Design Systems Engineer — React/TS, AI UI Lead

nice design jobs; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous PTO

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Parental leave

Job summary

WRITER is hiring a Design Engineer to own the Writer Design System (WDS), ensuring a trustworthy UI library for humans and AI agents. You’ll shape components, collaborate with designers, PMs, and engineers, and align surfaces from sketch to ship.

The role covers architecture, accessibility, and design-to-code workflows, with multiple hubs and a compensation range scaled to experience. This hybrid role reports to the Director of Product Design in a fast-growing AI enterprise.

Qualifications

• 4–8+ years building production frontends with TypeScript and React, owning a system end-to-end.
• Strong instincts for animation principles including easing curves, choreography, anticipation, follow-through, interruptibility, and perceived performance.
• Fluency in Figma at expert level — auto-layout, variants, variables — and proficiency with design engineering technologies like framer-motion, gsap, and lottie for web-based animation.
• demonstrable obsession with craft, backed by a portfolio, side projects, GitHub, or production work that includes systems-level work.

Responsibilities

• Own the Writer Design System (WDS) as your primary domain — agentify and maintain it, ensuring it's optimized for both humans and AI agents building with it.
• Design and build production-quality UI components and features, owning surfaces from sketch to ship.
• Ship design-led work that wouldn't survive an engineering backlog — polish passes, micro-interactions, and brand moments that make the product feel alive.
• Architect new primitives and extend the system's core components, shaping its technical direction while keeping documentation, examples, and libraries in sync across Figma, .md skills, and Storybook.
• Uphold the bar for front-end craft across accessibility, motion feel, consistency, and quality, ensuring accessibility is baked into every design system component.
• Help shape the design-to-code workflow, researching the latest tools and practices to unlock org-wide productivity and democratize workflows across the EPD organization.
• Partner with designers, PMs, and engineering leads to measure WDS adoption, close gaps, and make sure shipped features meet design system standards

Skills

TypeScript

React

Front-end architecture

Animation principles

Figma expert

Tools

framer-motion

gsap

lottie

Job description

WRITER is hiring a Design Engineer to own the Writer Design System (WDS), ensuring a trustworthy UI library for humans and AI agents. You’ll shape components, collaborate with designers, PMs, and engineers, and align surfaces from sketch to ship.

The role covers architecture, accessibility, and design-to-code workflows, with multiple hubs and a compensation range scaled to experience. This hybrid role reports to the Director of Product Design in a fast-growing AI enterprise.