Senior UX Engineer, Design Systems

Greenhouse

6h•Hybrid

About The Position

Our mission at Greenhouse is to make every company great at hiring – so we go to great lengths to hire great people because we believe that they’re the foundation of our success. At Greenhouse, you’ll join a team that collaborates purposefully, fosters inclusivity, and communicates with transparency and accountability so we can help companies measurably improve the way they hire. Join us to do the best work of your career, solving meaningful problems with remarkable teams. Greenhouse is looking for a Senior UX Engineer, Design Systems to join our central Design System team – Greenhouse's centralized experience and delivery enablement team for the product organization. Reporting to the Staff Designer & Manager, Design Systems, you'll be the missing implementation layer between design intent and production code. This is a first-of-its-kind role at Greenhouse, built to close a growing structural gap and help define the AI-powered future of how we design, build, and ship product. You'll serve all of our triad feature teams (Product, Design, Engineering) as shared infrastructure. Converting fragmented, one-off UI work into reusable, production-grade system capabilities that compound in value with every team that ships.

Requirements

5+ years of front-end engineering, UX engineering, or related field experience in a modern component framework, with strong component architecture skills. React + TypeScript strongly preferred.
Working knowledge of AI development tools (Claude, MCP, Code Sandbox, or similar) for code-ready output generation
Solid understanding of accessibility best practices (WCAG) and state modeling, demonstrated in shipped work
Fluency working with design tokens, layout systems, and interaction states, with a genuine interest in visual and interaction design
A documentation-first approach: teams should be able to self-serve from what you write
Demonstrated experience shipping design systems work at another organization. Field-tested knowledge, not just theoretical familiarity.
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

Nice To Haves

Storybook (or similar) component documentation and showcase workflow experience
Visual regression testing and CI quality gate experience
Design token pipeline experience and tooling

Responsibilities

Build and maintain production-grade components and patterns across core workflows, with accessibility and interaction fidelity built in from the start
Own a single documentation source of truth for Design and Engineering, with clear APIs, variants, and working examples teams can use without asking
Set contribution standards and guardrails that keep the design system the obvious default across Greenhouse's product teams
Partner with engineering to deliver implementation-ready patterns, reducing handoff loops and bespoke UI across feature teams
Champion design systems adoption across the organization and elevate the product through motion, interaction design, and refined brand moments