Sr. Software Engineer (Design Engineering)

Benepass

2d•$170,000 - $200,000

About The Position

Benepass is scaling rapidly, and the complexity of our frontend and product experience requires engineers who can translate design and product ideas into high-quality, scalable UI systems. As a Senior Design Engineer, you will play a key role in building and evolving Benepass’s design system and frontend foundations. You’ll partner on execution of a new frontend component library, contribute to overall frontend technical direction, and help bring consistency and quality to our UI across the product. This role is hands-on and highly collaborative. You’ll work closely with Design, Product, and Engineering to turn ambiguous ideas into well-structured, reusable components and patterns. You’ll also help improve developer experience and frontend practices across the team. You will have meaningful ownership over systems and features, while contributing to broader initiatives led by the frontend leadership.

Requirements

5+ years of frontend experience with deep knowledge of React and TypeScript.
Experience building and maintaining component libraries or design systems.
Solid understanding of component architecture, performance, and accessibility.
Comfortable working closely with Design and Product.
Able to translate ambiguous requirements into clear, structured solutions.
Communicates tradeoffs and decisions clearly.
Ability to balance short-term delivery with long-term system design.
Takes ownership of features or systems and drives them to completion.
Balances speed with quality and maintainability.
Seeks feedback and incorporates it effectively.
Excited about AI and the future of UI development workflows.
Thoughtful about adopting new tools and approaches that improve speed and quality.
5+ years of frontend engineering experience (or equivalent impact).
Experience contributing to or maintaining frontend systems or design systems.
Expertise in React, TypeScript, and modern styling approaches.
Strong system design skills across UI architecture, performance, and scalability.
Deep understanding of accessibility standards and best practices.
Experience influencing engineering practices across teams or organizations.

Nice To Haves

experience with schema-driven UI, design tooling, or AI-assisted development.

Responsibilities

Contribute to the development and evolution of Benepass’s design system and component library.
Build reusable, accessible, and scalable React/TypeScript components.
Help define and refine component APIs with a focus on usability and composability.
Ensure consistency in styling, theming, and responsive behavior across the product.
Collaborate with Design to translate UI/UX concepts into reusable components and patterns.
Work with Product to understand requirements, constraints, and tradeoffs.
Support engineers in adopting and using design system components effectively.
Help ensure strong alignment between design intent and implementation.
Act as a bridge between design vision and engineering execution at an organizational level
Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.
Apply best practices across React, TypeScript, styling, and accessibility.
Identify opportunities to improve performance, consistency, and code quality.
Contribute to frontend architecture decisions in partnership with senior and lead engineers.
Contribute to documentation, examples, and tooling (e.g., Storybook, styleguides).
Help streamline workflows for building and using UI components.
Identify and address friction in the frontend development process.
Provide guidance and feedback to other engineers through code reviews and collaboration.
Help uphold frontend standards and best practices across the team.
Take ownership of projects and drive them to completion with minimal oversight.
Explore and implement modern approaches to UI development, including AI-assisted workflows.
Improve the speed and quality of the design → code pipeline through automation and tooling.
Evaluate emerging technologies and introduce those that meaningfully improve team velocity.