Senior Design Engineer

Who you are

• 6+ years of experience designing and building production frontend experiences, ideally in complex B2B SaaS, enterprise software, developer tools, or similarly deep product domains
• Strong frontend engineering skills with modern web technologies and component-based architecture. You do not need to have used Front’s exact stack, but you should be able to ramp quickly in a large, mature codebase
• High UI/UX craft and strong product taste. You can evaluate whether an interface is not only visually polished, but also usable, accessible, flexible, and maintainable
• Experience building or maintaining component libraries, Storybook documentation, visual regression workflows, design-token pipelines, Figma workflows/plugins, or similar design-engineering infrastructure
• Strong accessibility fundamentals, including semantic HTML, ARIA patterns, keyboard interaction models, focus management, and inclusive component states
• Strong communication skills. You can explain technical and design-system decisions clearly to both specialists and non-specialists
• A portfolio or body of work showing shipped design-engineering impact: production UI, component systems, prototypes, Storybook examples, design-system documentation, or code-backed product work
• Experience working on products with a large existing frontend surface area, multiple product teams, and a mature or evolving design system
• Experience in customer support, customer operations, collaboration software, internal tools, developer tools, or other workflow-heavy SaaS products
• Experience consolidating fragmented component libraries or aligning Figma libraries with production code
• Experience using AI-assisted coding or design tools to accelerate prototyping, refactoring, and product iteration
• A systems mindset: you see patterns, edge cases, and long-term maintenance costs, not just individual screens
• A high craft bar: you care about the last 10% of interaction detail, visual polish, accessibility, and usability
• A builder’s bias: you prefer to make ideas real in code, learn from how they behave, and iterate quickly
• A collaborative approach: you raise the quality of work around you by making the right path easier for other designers and engineers
• Senior-level judgment: you can operate through ambiguity, prioritize high-leverage improvements, and sequence change in a way that teams can actually adopt

What the job involves

• We’re looking for a Senior Design Engineer to help close the gap between how Front is designed and how Front is built
• Front has a mature, complex product surface with more than a decade of UI investment, a rich Figma library, and a large production codebase
• This role is for someone who is equally comfortable in Figma and in frontend code, and who wants to turn design systems from static documentation into living, production-quality systems that help product teams move faster
• You’ll own the connective tissue between Design and Engineering: building reusable components, shaping design-system architecture, improving the fidelity between Figma and production, and creating the tooling, patterns, and practices that make high-quality UI easier to ship
• You won’t just document the system — you’ll build it, ship it, evolve it, and help teams adopt it
• This is a hands-on senior IC role with high leverage across Product, Design, and Engineering
• The right person brings strong frontend engineering judgment, excellent UI craft, deep design-systems experience, and the ability to influence teams without becoming a bottleneck
• Own and evolve Front’s design system across Figma, Storybook, and production code, helping create a clearer source of truth between design and engineering
• Build, refactor, and maintain reusable, accessible, well-documented UI components that product teams can confidently use across Front’s core surfaces
• Identify and reduce design/code drift across our existing component libraries, legacy UI patterns, and evolving Figma system
• Establish patterns, conventions, and guardrails that improve consistency, accessibility, maintainability, and developer experience
• Prototype new interaction patterns and reference implementations in code to help teams align quickly and de-risk complex product decisions
• Partner closely with Product Designers, Product Managers, and Engineers to define what “great” looks like for complex workflows, edge cases, and enterprise-grade product experiences
• Use AI tools thoughtfully to accelerate prototyping, iteration, production changes, and system maintenance while applying strong judgment to the output

Benefits

• Flexible PTO
• 401(K) plan
• Parental Leave
• Volunteer time off
• Commuter benefits
• Wellness benefits
• Work from home opportunities
• Health insurance
• Equity
• Mental health support
• Family planning support