Design Engineer (US)

Skills

About the Role

You'll own the Writer Design System, keeping it optimized for humans and AI agents. You'll build production-quality UI components, ship polish and micro-interactions, architect new primitives, uphold accessibility standards, shape the design-to-code workflow, and partner with designers, PMs, and engineers. You'll report to the Director of product design.

Requirements

• 4–8+ years building production frontends with TypeScript and React
• Instincts for animation principles
• Expert Figma fluency and proficiency with framer-motion, gsap, and lottie
• Portfolio demonstrating systems-level work
• Experience driving design system adoption across an engineering org
• Experience with AI product surfaces

Responsibilities

• Own the Writer Design System and optimize it for humans and AI agents
• Design and build production-quality UI components and features
• Ship design-led polish, micro-interactions, and brand moments
• Architect new primitives and extend core components, keeping Figma, docs, and Storybook in sync
• Uphold front-end craft across accessibility, motion, consistency, and quality
• Shape the design-to-code workflow
• Partner with designers, PMs, and engineering leads to measure design system adoption

Benefits

• Generous PTO plus company holidays
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Paid parental leave (16 weeks)
• Fertility and family planning support
• Early-detection cancer testing
• Flexible spending account and dependent FSA
• Health savings account with company contribution
• Wellness stipend
• Learning and development stipend
• Company-wide and team off-sites
• Company stock options and 401k
• Equity