Lead Design Systems Engineer — Scale UI, Mentor Teams

Into Design Systems

New York (NY)

On-site

USD 140,000 - 180,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Job summary

Blink Health is hiring a Senior Design Systems Engineer II to shape and scale the visual and interaction foundations of Blink’s digital ecosystem. The role blends hands-on engineering with design-focused attention to end-user experience and collaboration with Product Design and Software Engineering teams to evolve a shared design system across products.

You will lead component creation, review, and documentation within a centralized library, drive integration into existing products, and mentor

Qualifications

7+ years of professional experience in front-end or UI engineering.
Proven experience working on enterprise-scale or complex professional software.
Prior contributions to a frontend design system at scale.
Experience integrating UI components into a complex ecosystem.
Comfort with rapid prototyping and experimentation.

Responsibilities

Create and refine standardized UI components that meet quality, performance, accessibility, and design fidelity standards.
Conduct code reviews, validate design fit and finish, and collaborate with Design through implementation reviews to ensure pixel-perfect execution.
Publish, document, and maintain components in a centralized design system library for scalability and ease of adoption.
Work with teams to integrate design system components into existing products transitioning to shared UI infrastructure.
Act as a consultant and mentor to other engineering teams, promoting best practices for using and extending the design system.
Create live prototypes and proofs of concept to test and validate new patterns, workflows, and UI paradigms before full-scale development.