Senior Design Engineer
Front•San Francisco, CA
•$195,000 - $238,000•Hybrid
About The Position
Front is seeking a Senior Design Engineer to bridge the gap between design and development for their customer operations platform. This role involves owning and evolving the design system, building reusable UI components, improving the fidelity between design tools and production code, and creating tooling and practices to streamline UI development. The ideal candidate is proficient in both design tools like Figma and frontend coding, with a strong understanding of design systems and a passion for creating high-quality, accessible, and maintainable user interfaces. This is a hands-on, senior individual contributor role with significant influence across Product, Design, and Engineering teams.
Requirements
- 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.
Nice To Haves
- 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.
Responsibilities
- 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
- Competitive salary
- Equity (we are post-series D & backed by some of the best VCs in the US)
- Private health insurance, including plan options at no cost to employees
- Paid parental leave
- Flexible time off policy
- Flexibility to work from home Monday and Friday, unless posted as a fully remote role
- Mental health support with Workplace Options
- Family planning support with Maven
- $100 per month Lifestyle Stipend to spend on fitness, health and wellness, and other activities
- Wellness Days - Fronteers get an additional day off on months with no holidays
- Winter Break - Our offices are closed from Christmas to New Year's Day!
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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