Senior Design Engineer

MNTN

1d•Remote

About The Position

MNTN is looking for a Senior Design Engineer to innovate our user interface. You must run your post like a business and have experience leading your design efforts across different teams, while ensuring that your product design delivers both practical and innovative solutions to the platform. You will plot user journeys and set the acceptance criteria for your design work as you act as the liaison between stakeholders on your design work. You will be a part of a team rapidly designing and prototyping new features and ideas for current and next-generation MNTN products.

Requirements

6+ years of experience in a design engineering role or similar, with a strong portfolio showcasing design and development projects
Proficiency in Figma and experience or curiosity in exploring emerging AI design tools (e.g. Cursor, V0, Claude, etc)
Excellent frontend skills with modern approaches (React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, core/vanilla CSS) and a strong foundation in prototyping and implementation
Familiarity with ShadCN and Radix for building reusable UI components
A keen ability to articulate the rationale, process, and impact behind your design decisions and adapt to technical constraints in creative ways using your knowledge of web technologies
A high level of visual design skill and strong understanding of UX and UI principles.
Strong organizational skills and a love for documentation
A proactive individual that can self-start and prompt action or discussions on how to improve team dynamics or process within the context of their role
Fluent in design tokens and how they translate to design and engineers
Experience with interaction design

Nice To Haves

Worked in startup environments where you were involved in the establishment of design systems
Knowledge of accessibility development practices
Working with telemetry to inform design and development decisions
Leveraging AI in your day-to-day workflow

Responsibilities

Design, build, and evolve scalable design engineering solutions that improve product quality and user experience
Maintain and evolve the design and development of MNTN’s new cross-platform design system
Define long-term tooling, documentation standards, and contribution models
Implement responsive and accessible UI components using modern frontend technologies.
Champion the user experience and accessibility of our products, and help keep our quality bar as high as possible
Collaborate with and support designers to evolve our long-term product vision, design systems, and internal design collaboration process
Collaborate with engineers across multiple teams to establish best practices and improve workflow of component implementation
Create and maintain processes, tools, and reusable code patterns that enable efficient designer–engineer collaboration within the design system