Senior Design Systems Engineer — Remote

Clipboard; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Clipboard is seeking a Senior Design Engineer to build our design system from the ground up, scale it, and close the gap between how Clipboard is designed and how its built. The system youll own is the backbone and experience infrastructure all of EPD builds products on.

Youll own the connective tissue between design and engineering, shaping the architecture and foundations of the system, building the reusable components, and closing the gap between Figma and production.

Qualifications

• 6+ years building production frontend design systems that serve multiple product surfaces across mobile and web.
• Strong frontend engineering across modern web technologies and component-based architecture.
• High UI and UX craft with product taste and accessibility.
• Deep experience building and maintaining component libraries, design-token pipelines, Storybook, visual regression, and Figma workflows or plugins.

Responsibilities

• Establish the system's architecture and foundations across Figma and code, from primitives and tokens through components and patterns to critical user flows.
• Build reusable, production-ready components with the full range of states, interaction, motion, and accessibility built in.
• Keep design and code in sync as the system grows, closing gaps when Figma, code, and Storybook fall out of alignment.
• Define what good looks like in the system, set the standards, and ensure consistency, accessibility, and high quality.
• Create AI tooling and skills that let all of EPD prototype and build leveraging the system and design best practices.
• Write the documentation, usage guidance, and component rules that let people and AI build with the system correctly across Figma, code, and Storybook.
• Partner with designers, product managers, and engineers on how the system holds up in complex workflows and edge cases.

Skills

Design systems

Frontend engineering

Figma to code

Storybook

AI tooling

UI/UX craft

Communication

Architectural judgment

Tools

Figma

Storybook

React

Job description

Clipboard is seeking a Senior Design Engineer to build our design system from the ground up, scale it, and close the gap between how Clipboard is designed and how its built. The system youll own is the backbone and experience infrastructure all of EPD builds products on.

Youll own the connective tissue between design and engineering, shaping the architecture and foundations of the system, building the reusable components, and closing the gap between Figma and production.