Senior Design Engineer - Design Systems & Frontend Craft

frontcareers; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Front is seeking a Senior Design Engineer to bridge design and engineering across a mature product surface. You will own and evolve the design system, turning Figma concepts into production-ready UI components and patterns that scale for multiple product teams.

You will collaborate with Product Designers, PMs, and Engineers, push for accessibility and maintainability, and leverage Storybook and design-token pipelines to keep the system coherent as Front grows.

Qualifications

• 6+ years designing and building production frontend experiences.
• Expertise in complex B2B SaaS or enterprise software.
• Strong UI/UX craft and product sense.
• Experience maintaining component libraries and Storybook.
• Strong accessibility fundamentals.
• Excellent communication of complex decisions.
• Portfolio of shipped design-engineering work.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve Front's design system across Figma, Storybook, and production code.
• Build, refactor, maintain reusable UI components.
• Reduce design/code drift across libraries and patterns.
• Establish patterns, conventions, and guardrails for consistency and accessibility.
• Prototype new interaction patterns and reference implementations in code.
• Partner with Product Designers, Product Managers, and Engineers to define great experiences.
• Use AI tools to accelerate prototyping and production changes.

Skills

Frontend engineering

UI/UX craft

Design systems

Component libraries

Storybook

Accessibility

Communication

Portfolio

Tools

Figma

Storybook

Design tokens

Job description

Front is seeking a Senior Design Engineer to bridge design and engineering across a mature product surface. You will own and evolve the design system, turning Figma concepts into production-ready UI components and patterns that scale for multiple product teams.

You will collaborate with Product Designers, PMs, and Engineers, push for accessibility and maintainability, and leverage Storybook and design-token pipelines to keep the system coherent as Front grows.