Lead Design Systems Engineer — AI-Driven Tooling & Production

Step; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Step is seeking a Design Systems Engineer to own the design platform, shared foundations, tooling, and workflows that unite product design and production engineering across mobile and web. You will translate high-fidelity designs into production-ready components with strong visual accuracy and dependable behavior, while collaborating with engineering to build scalable, performant, accessible architectures.

We expect experience shipping high-quality apps, excellent communication across teams, and

Qualifications

• Significant experience creating and evolving design systems for modern consumer software.
• Strong ability to work across design and engineering, with enough fluency in both disciplines to influence decisions and implementation.
• Experience shipping high-quality mobile or web applications and reviewing production implementations.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills across product, design, and technical teams.
• Curiosity about AI and emerging design tools, with a willingness to rethink established product-development workflows.
• Portfolio or work examples demonstrating technical execution and thoughtful design-systems practice.

Responsibilities

• Keep the design system and production implementation aligned, with shared components, tokens, foundations, and patterns across iOS, Android, and web.
• Translate high-fidelity designs into production-ready components with strong visual accuracy and dependable behavior.
• Collaborate with engineering to create scalable, flexible, performant, accessible component architecture that teams can adopt easily.
• Improve design-to-code workflows through tooling, automation, documentation, versioning, and developer experience improvements.
• Establish governance for component APIs, naming, tokens, releases, adoption, and quality while reducing friction between design and engineering.
• Explore AI-assisted workflows and internal tools that make designing, building, documenting, and maintaining products faster and more reliable.

Job description

Step is seeking a Design Systems Engineer to own the design platform, shared foundations, tooling, and workflows that unite product design and production engineering across mobile and web. You will translate high-fidelity designs into production-ready components with strong visual accuracy and dependable behavior, while collaborating with engineering to build scalable, performant, accessible architectures.

We expect experience shipping high-quality apps, excellent communication across teams, and