Remote Design Systems Engineer — Scalable Web Architecture

Blacksmith Agency LLC; Arkansas; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote (Latin America)

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency LLC is seeking a Senior Design Systems Engineer to shape how client design systems are built. You will extract patterns from brands and translate them into tokens, variables, modes, and core components our build pipeline can execute with precision.

This is a senior, systems-first role where you stand up new systems quickly and ensure consistency across multiple client brands at once. Strong English and US business-hour overlap are expected.

Qualifications

• 4+ years designing for the web with real design system work in your portfolio.
• Fluency in Figma variables, component properties, auto layout, and variants. Architecture, not just tidy files.
• A portfolio showing work across client brands with consistent underlying rigor.
• Strong English and overlap with US business hours.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Design Systems

Figma Variables

Component Architecture

Portfolio Diversity

English Proficiency

Job description

Blacksmith Agency LLC is seeking a Senior Design Systems Engineer to shape how client design systems are built. You will extract patterns from brands and translate them into tokens, variables, modes, and core components our build pipeline can execute with precision.

This is a senior, systems-first role where you stand up new systems quickly and ensure consistency across multiple client brands at once. Strong English and US business-hour overlap are expected.