Design Engineer

Confido•New York, NY

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Confido is the AI infrastructure powering CPG brands from deduction to production plan. They unify cash application, deductions, disputes, trade promotion management, forecasting, demand planning, and analytics in one integrated platform, resulting in measurable time savings, smarter top- and bottom-line decisions, and the speed to scale. Confido is trusted by over 200 brands managing more than $20B in revenue, including OLIPOP, Simple Mills, Dr. Squatch, and Tropicana. The company has achieved best-in-class growth and recently raised a $15M Series A to accelerate momentum. As a Design Engineer, you will be responsible for building an AI-ready design system from scratch, including tokens, components, styles, and descriptions, to provide a faster, more reliable foundation for designers and developers. You will collaborate directly with product and engineering teams to bridge the gap between design intent and the final shipped experience.

Requirements

4+ years of design engineering or frontend experience, ideally on a product or design system team
Equally comfortable in Figma and your code editor—you move fluidly between both
Strong frontend engineering skills: TypeScript, 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

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

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