Design System Engineer

The Role

Pilot is a successful startup hiring a Design Systems Engineer on our Infrastructure team.

Pilot’s aim is to provide our customers with the same superpowers as large companies with full finance teams — superpowers that include having a deep understanding of financial health of the business, the machinery to constantly improve it, and the predictive abilities to thoughtfully plan for the future. We do this at a fraction of the cost a large company would pay for this, by delivering these capabilities through powerful software.

All of our teams have unique charters to collectively build the software, services and systems that enable Pilot to deliver a high-quality experience, profitably,  Infrastructure team accelerates the rest of R&D by providing scalable, efficient, and high-quality building blocks for product development, while also ensuring we can support business growth in a secure and reliable way. The team is responsible for building simple, scalable abstractions and owns the full Infrastructure stack that our systems run on to the product platform that our product engineers use.

We’re looking for a Design Systems Engineer who bridges design and engineering, owns component quality across Figma, Storybook, and code, and builds scalable, production-ready UI systems.

• Ownership of our design system across Figma, Storybook, production code & AI vibecoded prototypes
• Stewardship of Storybook as the source of truth for UI components and usage
• Tight alignment between design intent and shipped UI
• Component quality, consistency, and scalability across the product

• Expand the design system to support product, marketing, and AI-ready experiences from a single, shared foundation
• Partner daily with product designers to shape components early, not after the fact
• Partner with frontend engineers to ensure components are easy to adopt and extend
• Build and maintain reusable, accessible UI components in Vue
• Translate design system decisions into clean, documented, production-ready components
• Keep Figma, Storybook, and code in sync and actively close gaps
• Leverage MCP when necessary to help connect intent, components, and UI
• Evolve the design system to be AI-ready, enabling vibe coding prototypes by mapping intent to constrained, brand-safe components

• Strong frontend skills modern CSS
• Deep experience working with or owning a design system
• Hands-on experience with Storybook in a production environment
• Strong design sensibility and ability to read and challenge design decisions
• Comfort acting as the bridge between design and engineering
• Experience with vibe coding tools or AI-assisted development workflows
• Familiarity with MCP or intent-driven UI concepts is a big plus
• Clear communication and a bias toward practical solutions
• This position is only available for remote employment in the United States in the following states: CA, GA, NY, NC, TN, TX, and WA

• You shape how the product UI is built, not just how it looks
• You reduce friction between design and engineering
• You make the design system faster, safer, and easier to scale

Pilot launched in 2017 to bring the back office into the modern era. Pilot provides small businesses with dedicated finance experts - which Pilot hires as full-time, U.S.

-based employees - who learn the ins-and-outs of their business. Pilot integrates directly with the billing, banking, expense, and payroll systems customers already use. With a special blend of custom software and expert bookkeepers, Pilot delivers accurate, consistent bookkeeping and financial management and tax services that give entrepreneurs the freedom to focus on their business.

Pilot has over 3,000 customers and has raised over $170 million in financing from Sequoia, Index Ventures, Stripe, Bezos Expeditions, and Whale Rock. Our investors also include a long list of world-class entrepreneurs, including Patrick and John Collison, Drew Houston, and Diane Greene. Our most recent funding round doubled our valuation to $1.2 billion.

• We invest in our employees’ development and happiness because our employees are the keys to our success and ensuring happy customers
• The…