Senior Design Engineer — Design Systems & Frontend Craft

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San Francisco (CA)

Hybrid

USD 140,000 - 210,000

Full time

14 days+
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Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary
Equity
Private health insurance
Paid parental leave
Flexible time off
Work-from-home Mon & Fri
Mental health support
Maven family planning
Lifestyle stipend
Wellness days
Winter break

Job summary

Front is seeking a Senior Design Engineer to close the gap between design and build, owning a mature design system across Figma, Storybook, and production code. You will create reusable UI components, improve fidelity between design and production, and shape tooling and patterns to accelerate product teams.

This hands-on senior IC role requires strong frontend judgment, UI craft, and a track record in design-systems.

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of experience designing and building production frontend experiences in complex B2B SaaS or enterprise software.
  • Strong frontend engineering skills with modern web technologies and component-based architecture.
  • High UI/UX craft and strong product taste for usable, accessible interfaces.
  • Experience building or maintaining component libraries, Storybook docs, visual regression workflows, and Figma workflows/plugins.
  • Strong accessibility fundamentals: semantic HTML, ARIA, keyboard interactions, focus management.
  • A portfolio showing shipped design-engineering impact: production UI, component systems, or design-system docs.

Responsibilities

  • Own and evolve Front's design system across Figma, Storybook, and production code.
  • Build and maintain reusable, accessible UI components across Front surfaces.
  • Reduce design/code drift across libraries and patterns.
  • Establish patterns and guardrails to improve consistency and developer experience.
  • Prototype new interactions and reference implementations in code.
  • Collaborate with Product Designers, PMs, and Engineers to define great complex workflows.

Skills

6+ years exp
Frontend engineering
UI craft
Accessibility
Communication
Portfolio of work

Tools

Figma
Storybook
Design-token pipelines

Job description

Front is seeking a Senior Design Engineer to close the gap between design and build, owning a mature design system across Figma, Storybook, and production code. You will create reusable UI components, improve fidelity between design and production, and shape tooling and patterns to accelerate product teams.

This hands-on senior IC role requires strong frontend judgment, UI craft, and a track record in design-systems.

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