Design Engineer Senior

The Tax Digital Transformation & Innovation practice at BDO USA drives the success of our business through intuitive and human-first digital experiences that our employees and clients engage with. We're elevating the way tax professionals deliver services to our clients and the way we help them manage their taxes and tax strategies.

The Tax Digital Transformation & Innovation practice at BDO USA delivers human-centered digital experiences for tax professionals and clients. The Senior Product Design Engineer bridges product design and front-end engineering, transforming complex, data-heavy tax workflows into intuitive, scalable, and accessible experiences.

This role is approximately 70% engineering and 30% design. The ideal candidate can move seamlessly from concept and prototype to production-quality implementation, partnering closely with Product, Engineering, and Design teams across global time zones. You will contribute to our design system, build high-performance user interfaces, and help accelerate product delivery through modern AI-assisted workflows.

Job Duties

• Translate product concepts and Figma designs into production-ready user experiences.
• Build responsive, accessible, and performant front-end applications.
• Contribute to the evolution of shared design systems and reusable component libraries.
• Collaborate asynchronously with globally distributed teams in a follow-the-sun model.
• Prototype concepts rapidly to validate ideas and improve decision-making.
• Leverage AI-assisted tools and workflows to accelerate design, development, testing, and documentation.
• Use qualitative and quantitative insights to improve user experiences.
• Champion accessibility, usability, and consistency across products.
• Mentor peers and contribute to design and engineering best practices
• Other duties as required

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Acts as a career advisor and mentor as assigned

Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Education:

• Bachelors degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, or related discipline; or equivalent experience.
• Or a minimum of a high school diploma or equivalent with 6+ years of experience.

Experience:

• 5+ years of experience in product design engineering, front-end development, UX engineering, or a related field, required.
• Experience translating design concepts into production-quality interfaces, required.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional product teams, required.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating product thinking, interaction design, and front-end implementation, preferred.
• React, Angular, TypeScript, Next.js, TailwindCSS, and Figma, preferred.
• Design systems and component-based architecture, preferred.
• Accessibility standards and responsive design, preferred.
• REST APIs and modern web application architecture, preferred.
• Familiarity with AI tools such as Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Claude, and v0, preferred.

Software:

• Fluency in modern IDEs (e.g. Visual Studio, Cursor, etc.), required

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Language:

• N/A

Other Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:

• Knowledge of leading practices in frontend execution with a data-driven approach to informing decisions
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguous and fast-moving environments.
• Strong problem-solving and organizational abilities.
• Passion for improving how products are designed, built, and scaled