Design Engineer, Design Systems

Location
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New York, New York (Chelsea) - Relocation Assistance Included

• Build Confido’s design system from the ground up—tokens, components, styles, and the documentation that makes them usable by designers and developers alike.
• Implement production‑grade React/TS components with pixel‑perfect execution and interactions that delight.
• Design in context: work across real product surfaces to understand how components relate, communicate, and hold up before abstracting them.
• Bridge design and engineering, translating intent into code and pushing what’s possible in both directions.
• Rapidly prototype new concepts and patterns to validate ideas before full implementation.
• Socialize the design system across the team so it actually gets used and helps everyone ship faster.

• 4+ years of design engineering or front‑end experience, ideally on a product or design system team.
• Equally comfortable in Figma and your code editor—you move fluidly between both.
• Strong front‑end engineering skills:
  Type Script, React, CSS, animations, and a component‑driven mindset.
• A strong eye for design, with deep care for layout, motion, affordances, and visual polish.
• Experience building or meaningfully contributing to a design system: tokens, components, documentation, governance.
• You’ve shipped polished products and know what it takes to get from 90% to 100%.
• You can move fast—prototyping ideas in hours, not days.
• A systems mindset: you think in primitives and abstractions, not one‑off solutions.
• Excited about AI and how it changes the way designers and developers work.

• Have shipped a design system (or major version of one) and know what makes them fail.
• Prototype in code to think, not just to present.
• Have designed for B2B financial, enterprise, or operational domains before.
• Use AI tools actively in your workflow, not as a gimmick, but as a multiplier.
• Treat ambiguity as an invitation.

We primarily use Type Script + React with Vite as our build tool. Our current UI layer is built on MUI, leveraging both the sx prop and styled components for styling.

For data and state management, we use Tan Stack Query and Axios for data fetching, along with a mix of Zustand and React Context for shared UI state. Routing is handled via React Router.

Note:

While MUI is our current foundation, we’re actively evolving our design system and are open to exploring alternatives (e.g., Tailwind) as we scale.

• Equity
• Paid Relocation
• Unlimited PTO
• 401(K) through Vestwell
• Provided Mac Book
• Fully Paid Health, Dental, and Vision plans
• Catered Lunches on Fridays
• Nightly Team Dinners for those staying past 6:30pm
• Unlimited coffee and snacks featuring our brands

Confido provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.