Senior Design Engineer

Turquoise; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay with equity options

Fully remote work and flexible hours

401(k) with 4% matching

Stellar healthcare plan options

Job summary

Turquoise Health is seeking a product-minded Design Engineer to bridge design intent and the shipped experience. You’ll evolve Pit Viper, Turquoise Health’s design system and component library, and work directly in product code to improve usability, consistency, accessibility, and polish of our applications.

You’ll build reusable pv-components, define APIs, and ensure compatibility with Vue and native Web Components across server-rendered surfaces.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building production web interfaces with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript or TypeScript.
• 1+ years of direct, hands-on experience building or maintaining a design system, component library, or shared UI framework.
• Strong visual and interaction-design judgment.
• Production-level experience with Vue (or a comparable component framework).
• Experience implementing accessibility standards (WCAG) in shipped components.
• A portfolio, GitHub, or work sample showing before/after component or interaction work.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, document, and maintain reusable pv-components within our internal design system (PitViper)
• Create thoughtful component APIs, composition patterns, variants, interaction states, and extension points that serve emerging product needs
• Ensure components work naturally within Vue applications while remaining useful as native Web Components in HTML and other server-rendered product surfaces
• Partner closely with product designers and engineers throughout the development process, from early exploration through production implementation
• Work directly in application code to refine layouts, interactions, responsive behavior, typography, spacing, focus management, transitions, and feedback states
• Last-mile design delivery: implementation of details that are often missed between a design file and production, including loading, empty, error, success, disabled, hover, and keyboard-navigation states
• Review product surfaces for visual, behavioral, and accessibility inconsistencies, then fix them at the appropriate level: within the feature, shared application code, or Pit Viper
• Improve the documentation, testing, release processes, and contribution practices that make Pit Viper easier for other teams to adopt

Skills

Frontend web development

Design systems

Accessibility (WCAG)

Portfolio / GitHub samples

Tools

Vue

Web Components

HTMX

Django

Job description

This is a fully remote role within the United States.

We’re looking for a product-minded Design Engineer to bridge the gap between design intent and the experience we ultimately ship. You’ll evolve Pit Viper, Turquoise Health’s design system and component library, while working directly in product code to improve the usability, consistency, accessibility, and polish of our applications.

Pit Viper includes visual foundations, layouts, CSS patterns, and pv-components built with Vue. Those components can also be distributed as native Web Components, allowing us to reuse the system in lighter-weight, server-driven parts of the product powered by Django templates.

You’ll help determine what the right interactions should be, implement them in production, and identify when an individual product improvement should become a reusable system capability.

Success in this role means being able to demonstrate outcomes such as:

• A recurring product pattern that previously required one-off implementations is now supported by a flexible, well-documented pv-component

• A critical workflow is materially easier to understand because its interaction, hierarchy, responsive behavior, and edge states have been refined in code

• Vue and HTMX-powered product surfaces can use the same components without creating fragmented user experiences

• Accessibility, visual consistency, and interaction issues are caught and resolved before release rather than during post-launch cleanup

• Product engineers can ship high-quality experiences more quickly because our design system gives them stronger defaults

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, document, and maintain reusable pv-components within our internal design system (PitViper)

• Create thoughtful component APIs, composition patterns, variants, interaction states, and extension points that serve emerging product needs

• Ensure components work naturally within Vue applications while remaining useful as native Web Components in HTML and other server-rendered product surfaces

• Partner closely with product designers and engineers throughout the development process, from early exploration through production implementation

• Work directly in application code to refine layouts, interactions, responsive behavior, typography, spacing, focus management, transitions, and feedback states

• Last-mile design delivery: implementation of details that are often missed between a design file and production, including loading, empty, error, success, disabled, hover, and keyboard-navigation states

• Review product surfaces for visual, behavioral, and accessibility inconsistencies, then fix them at the appropriate level: within the feature, shared application code, or Pit Viper

• Improve the documentation, testing, release processes, and contribution practices that make Pit Viper easier for other teams to adopt

What you’ll bring to the role

• 5+ years building production web interfaces with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript or TypeScript

• 1+ years of direct, hands-on experience building or maintaining a design system, component library, or shared UI framework (not just consuming one)

• Strong visual and interaction-design judgment. You can recognize why an interface feels unfinished and translate that observation into a concrete implementation

• Production-level experience with Vue (or a comparable component framework — React/Svelte/Angular)

• Demonstrable experience implementing accessibility standards (WCAG) in shipped components, not just design reviews

• A portfolio, GitHub, or work sample showing before/after component or interaction work (not just visual mockups)

Bonus Points

• Experience authoring and publishing native Web Components consumed outside their originating framework

• Experience working across a mixed-framework stack — a JS framework alongside server-rendered templates (Django, Rails, HTMX, or similar)

• Experience contributing to or maintaining a component library used by 10+ other engineers/teams

• Familiarity with Storybook, Figma-to-code tooling, or similar design-system tooling

• Experience in healthcare, fintech, or another data-dense enterprise product domain

Benefits

• Competitive pay with equity options

• Stellar healthcare plan options, including Medical, Dental, and Vision, with FSA, DCFSA, and HSA options

• Company-sponsored disability and life insurance

• Unlimited PTO

• 401(k) with 4% matching

• Fully remote work and flexible working hours

• $750 work-from-home setup budget

• Paid biannual in-person company summits

• Quarterly $150 co-hanging stipend to meet with coworkers

• Monthly $100 health and wellness benefit

• Generous paid family leave

• Annual $1,200 learning and development stipend

About Turquoise Health

Turquoise Health is a Series C price transparency platform for finance leaders across healthcare. Backed by a16z, Oak HC/FT, Adams Street, Yosemite, Bessemer Venture Partners, and others, we power price transparency for 300+ enterprise organizations and are building the infrastructure for a more open, efficient healthcare marketplace. We're a remote-first, US-based team that values transparency, empathy, inclusivity, creativity, and ownership.

We operate on US business hours and work with clients entirely based in the US. For this role, we are seeking US-based candidates.

We strongly encourage BIPOC, people with disabilities, and LGBTQIA+ folks to apply for any open roles of interest. Healthcare affects all people differently, but it significantly affects those in underserved communities. With a robust, diverse team, we are stronger and better equipped to change the future of healthcare for all.

Work Authorization

This role requires current authorization to work in the United States. Turquoise does not sponsor employment visas (H-1B, PERM, etc.) or assume sponsorship of existing visas for this position.

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