Design Systems Engineer (Remote, Santa Fe)

Blacksmith Agency LLC; Arkansas; Remote; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote (Latin America)

Full-time

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency LLC is seeking a Senior Design Systems Engineer to own how client design systems are built. You extract patterns into tokens, variables, modes, and core components for a build pipeline, ensuring precision across multiple brands.

This senior, systems-first role delivers token architecture, shared component libraries, and comprehensive system documentation for developers and automated pipelines, while coordinating work across several client brands with rigorous standards.

Qualifications

• 4+ years designing for the web with design system work in portfolio.
• Fluency in Figma variables, component properties, auto layout and variants.
• A portfolio showing work across multiple clients with consistent design rigor.
• Strong English with overlap to US business hours.

Responsibilities

• Build token architecture in Figma using variables, modes, and semantic naming.
• Ship core component libraries that hold up across an entire site.
• Document the system so developers or automated pipelines can execute it.
• Work across several client brands with the same structural rigor.

Skills

Design systems

Figma variables

Component libraries

Documentation

Web design

Tools

Figma

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.

Blacksmith Agency

• Design
• Full time
• Remote (Latin America)

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.

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.