Senior Design Systems Engineer — Remote

Blacksmith Agency LLC; Arkansas; Remote; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote (Latin America)

Job summary

Blacksmith Agency is seeking a senior Design Systems Engineer to own how client design systems are built. You will take brand references and extract patterns into a working system—tokens, variables, modes, and core components—ready for a build pipeline.

This role is senior and systems-first, not one-off pages or maintenance. You will stand up new systems quickly and with rigor across multiple client brands while aligning with US business hours.

Qualifications

• 4+ years designing for the web with design system work.
• Fluency in Figma variables, component properties, auto layout, and variants.
• A portfolio showing client work across different brands with underlying design rigor.
• Strong English and overlap with US business hours.

Responsibilities

• Build token architecture in Figma using variables, modes, and semantic naming.
• Ship core component libraries that scale across sites and brands.
• Document the system so a developer or pipeline can execute it without questions.
• Work across several client brands with consistent structural rigor.

Skills

Design systems

Figma variables

Component architecture

Portfolio demonstrates consistency

English proficiency

Tools

Figma

Job description

Blacksmith Agency is seeking a senior Design Systems Engineer to own how client design systems are built. You will take brand references and extract patterns into a working system—tokens, variables, modes, and core components—ready for a build pipeline.

This role is senior and systems-first, not one-off pages or maintenance. You will stand up new systems quickly and with rigor across multiple client brands while aligning with US business hours.