Lead Design Systems Engineer for AI-Driven UI

WRITER; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 129,000 - 234,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous PTO

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Parental leave

Fertility support

Galleri cancer screening

Job summary

WRITER is seeking a Design Engineer to own the Writer Design System (WDS) and ensure its completeness and trustworthiness for production. You will work with designers, PMs, and engineers to ship polished UI components and surfaces while maintaining accessibility and consistency across platforms.

The role offers hybrid work from multiple hubs including SF, NYC, Chicago, Austin, Seattle, London, and more, with compensation that scales by experience and role scope.

Qualifications

• 4–8+ years building production frontends with TypeScript and React.
• Solid instincts for animation principles including easing curves and choreography.
• Fluency in Figma at expert level — auto-layout, variants, variables, and code connect.
• Demonstrated portfolio or production work showing systems‑level work, not just features.
• Experience driving adoption of a design system across an engineering org.
• Experience with AI product surfaces — tool-call UIs and dynamic UI rendering.
• Commitment to WRITER's values of Connect, Challenge, and Own.

Responsibilities

• Own the Writer Design System (WDS) as the primary domain.
• Design and build production-quality UI components and features.
• Polish design-led work with focus on accessibility and craft.
• Architect new primitives and extend core components across surfaces.
• Ensure documentation, examples, and libraries stay in sync with Storybook/Docs.
• Collaborate with designers, PMs, and engineers to measure WDS adoption.
• Shape design-to-code workflow and advocate productivity improvements across EPD.

Skills

Front-end development

TypeScript

React

Design systems

UI components

Animation

Figma

Framer Motion

GSAP

Lottie

Accessibility

Design-system adoption

Tools

Storybook

Figma

Framer Motion

GSAP

Lottie

Job description

WRITER is seeking a Design Engineer to own the Writer Design System (WDS) and ensure its completeness and trustworthiness for production. You will work with designers, PMs, and engineers to ship polished UI components and surfaces while maintaining accessibility and consistency across platforms.

The role offers hybrid work from multiple hubs including SF, NYC, Chicago, Austin, Seattle, London, and more, with compensation that scales by experience and role scope.