Senior Design Engineer: Design Systems & UI Components

Ladders; United States; Remote; USD 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Parental leave

Flexible time off

WFH Mondays and Fridays

Mental health support

Lifestyle stipend

Job summary

Ladders is seeking a Senior Design Engineer to shape and evolve the design system across design tools, documentation and production code for a scalable B2B software platform.

You will bridge product design and frontend engineering to reduce design-to-code drift, establish standards, and prototype solutions enabling teams to move faster with confidence. This remote US-based role offers strong compensation and benefits.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of frontend design and development in complex B2B SaaS or enterprise software.
• Strong frontend engineering with modern web technologies and component-based architecture.
• High UI/UX craft with usability, accessibility, and maintainability.
• Experience with component libraries, Storybook documentation, and design-engineering infrastructure.
• Strong accessibility fundamentals, including semantic HTML and ARIA patterns.
• Excellent communication skills for explaining technical decisions to diverse audiences.
• Portfolio showcasing impactful design-engineering work.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the design system across Figma, Storybook, and production code.
• Build, refactor, and maintain reusable, accessible UI components for product teams.
• Identify and reduce design/code drift in existing component libraries and design systems.
• Establish patterns and conventions that improve consistency and maintainability.
• Prototype new interaction patterns to help teams align and de-risk decisions.
• Collaborate with Product Designers, Managers, and Engineers to define quality standards.
• Utilize AI tools to enhance prototyping and system maintenance.

Skills

Frontend design

UI/UX craft

Accessibility (ARIA)

Design systems

Storybook

Component libraries

React

Tools

Storybook

Figma

React

HTML/CSS/JS

Job description

Ladders is seeking a Senior Design Engineer to shape and evolve the design system across design tools, documentation and production code for a scalable B2B software platform.

You will bridge product design and frontend engineering to reduce design-to-code drift, establish standards, and prototype solutions enabling teams to move faster with confidence. This remote US-based role offers strong compensation and benefits.