Senior Design Engineer: Design Systems & Frontend Craft

Front; United States; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity

Private health insurance

Paid parental leave

Flexible time off

Work-from-home flexibility

Mental health support

Maven family planning support

$100 monthly lifestyle stipend

Wellness Days

Winter Break

Job summary

Front is seeking a Senior Design Engineer to bridge design and engineering, owning the design system across Figma, Storybook, and production code. You will build reusable, accessible UI components and reduce drift across libraries, aligning design and code with enterprise-grade product experiences.

You will collaborate with product designers, managers, and engineers to define what great looks like for complex workflows, while leveraging AI thoughtfully to accelerate prototyping and system

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience designing and building production frontend experiences in complex B2B SaaS or enterprise software.
• Strong frontend engineering with modern web technologies and component-based architecture.
• High UI/UX craft, usable, accessible, flexible, maintainable interface.
• Experience building or maintaining component libraries, Storybook docs, design-token pipelines, or similar infra.
• Strong accessibility fundamentals: semantic HTML, ARIA, keyboard navigation, focus management.
• Strong communication skills to explain technical/design decisions.
• A portfolio showing shipped design-engineering impact.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve Front's design system across Figma, Storybook, and production code.
• Build, refactor, and maintain reusable, accessible UI components across Front's surfaces.
• Identify and reduce design/code drift across component libraries and Figma system.
• Establish patterns and guardrails to improve consistency, accessibility and developer experience.
• Prototype new interaction patterns and reference implementations in code.
• Partner with Product Designers/PMs/ Engineers to define great complex workflows.
• Use AI tools to accelerate prototyping and production changes with good judgment.

Skills

Frontend engineering

UI/UX craft

Accessibility

Design systems

Component libraries

Communication

Portfolio of work

Tools

Figma

Storybook

Job description

Front is seeking a Senior Design Engineer to bridge design and engineering, owning the design system across Figma, Storybook, and production code. You will build reusable, accessible UI components and reduce drift across libraries, aligning design and code with enterprise-grade product experiences.

You will collaborate with product designers, managers, and engineers to define what great looks like for complex workflows, while leveraging AI thoughtfully to accelerate prototyping and system