Senior Design Engineer

Socket.dev; Town of Florida (NY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Socket.dev is seeking a Senior Design Engineer to bridge product design and frontend engineering in a hybrid role. You will design user experiences and craft production-ready React code, becoming the founding architect of our design system and tokens to support fast, cohesive feature development.

You’ll drive end-to-end product design for AI-driven dashboards, implement interfaces in code, and maintain visual consistency across the platform while enabling other engineers with clear docs and

Qualifications

• 7+ years in product design, frontend engineering, or UX Design Engineer roles.
• Expert in design tools (Figma/Framer/Penpot) and design systems.
• Proficient in React, TypeScript, HTML/CSS, and Tailwind.
• Experience with AI tooling to speed design and prototyping.
• Familiarity with Git workflows and open-source projects is a bonus.

Responsibilities

• Own the Design System: Architect, scale, and maintain our foundational design system in design tooling and code.
• End-to-End Product Design: Craft seamless UX flows, wireframes, high-fidelity UI screens, and interactive prototypes for AI-driven dashboards.
• Frontend Implementation: Translate your designs into production-ready, responsive component code and commit to GitHub.
• Developer Enablement: Create clear documentation and code specifications for cross-functional teams.
• Maintain Visual Consistency: Audit live platform to prevent UI regressions and ensure pixel-perfect UI.
• Raise the Team's Velocity: Integrate AI into design-build-review cycles to ship faster.

Skills

7+ years exp

React proficiency

AI tooling proficiency

Git workflows

Systems thinking

Design systems

Tools

React

TypeScript

HTML/CSS

Tailwind CSS

Storybook

Job description

About the role

We are hiring a Senior Design Engineer who will single-handedly own the bridge between product design and frontend engineering. In this hybrid role, you won't just hand off flat mockups to engineers — you will design user experiences and write the clean, production-ready React code that brings them to life in GitHub.
You will be the founding architect of Comp AI's design system, maintaining our UI components, global tokens, and interface logic to ensure our fast-shipping engineering team can build cohesive features at scale.
We build with AI, and we expect you to as well. The best design engineers we've met use AI to compress the distance between an idea and a shipped interface — exploring more directions, scaffolding faster, and spending their own time on the judgment calls that actually matter. Speed without a drop in craft is the bar.

What you'll do

• Own the Design System: Architect, scale, and maintain our foundational design system (components, tokens, styling architecture) in both design tooling and code.
• End-to-End Product Design: Craft seamless UX flows, wireframes, high-fidelity UI screens, and interactive prototypes for complex AI-driven dashboards and workflows.
• Frontend Implementation: Translate your own designs into high-quality, responsive component code and commit changes directly to our GitHub repository.
• Developer Enablement: Establish crystal-clear documentation and interactive code specifications so full-stack and backend engineers can seamlessly implement product pages.
• Maintain Visual Consistency: Continuously audit our live platform to eliminate UI regressions and ensure pixel-perfect execution across the application.
• Raise the Team's Velocity: Bring AI into the design and build loop — prototyping, code generation, review, documentation — and share what works so the rest of the team ships faster too.

Qualifications

• Experience: 7+ years of professional experience in product design, frontend engineering, or a dedicated Design Engineer / UX Engineer role (preferably at a fast-growing B2B SaaS or developer-tooling startup).
• Expert Designer: Mastery of a modern design tool — Figma, Framer, Penpot, or whatever you do your best work in — including component systems, variants, and interactive prototyping. We care about the output, not the logo on the file.
• Production Code Capable: Strong proficiency in React, TypeScript, HTML, CSS/CSS Modules, and Tailwind CSS.
• AI-Accelerated: Demonstrated use of AI tooling (coding agents, design/prototyping tools, LLM workflows) to move faster without lowering the quality bar. We'll ask you how you use it and where you don't.
• Git Workflows: Confident managing branches, opening pull requests, resolving conflicts, and navigating GitHub codebases.
• Systems Thinker: Deep understanding of component-driven architecture, design tokens, responsive web layouts, and state management.

Bonus Points

• Experience working on open-source software or developer-facing products.
• Familiarity with UI documentation tools like Storybook.
• A background or strong interest in AI products, data visualization, or the cyber security/compliance space.