Senior Design Engineer, Design Systems

Clipboard Health

. Establish the design system's architecture and foundations across Figma and code .

Posted 9/19/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesSenior💰 $180,000 - $250,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in building and maintaining production frontend design systems, with a strong focus on accessibility, component libraries, and design-token pipelines. Proficient in collaborating with cross-functional teams to create high-quality, reusable components and documentation that enhance user experience across mobile and web platforms.

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Frontend EngineeringComponent-Based ArchitectureDesign SystemsAccessibility FundamentalsAI-Assisted Development

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Hard Skills

FigmaStorybookComponent LibrariesDesign-TokensVisual RegressionPrototypingProduction-Ready ComponentsUser FlowsMotion DesignInteraction Design

Soft Skills

Strong Communication SkillsSenior Judgment

Industry Keywords

UI CraftUX CraftDesign System InfrastructureCodebase ManagementDocumentation

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Establish the design system's architecture and foundations across Figma and code
Build primitives, tokens, components, patterns, and critical user flows
Build reusable, production-ready components with interaction, motion, states, and accessibility
Keep Figma, code, and Storybook aligned
Define system standards and maintain consistency, accessibility, and quality
Create AI tooling and skills for system-led prototyping and development
Write documentation, usage guidance, and component rules
Partner with designers, product managers, and engineers on complex workflows and edge cases
Build Clipboard's design system infrastructure connecting design and engineering across products

Requirements

What you’ll need

6+ years building production frontend design systems serving multiple product surfaces across mobile and web
Strong frontend engineering across modern web technologies and component-based architecture
Ability to ramp quickly in a large, established codebase
High UI and UX craft with strong product taste
Deep experience building and maintaining component libraries, design-token pipelines, Storybook, visual regression, and Figma workflows or plugins
Strong accessibility fundamentals across mobile and web
Experience standing up or consolidating design systems and aligning Figma libraries with production code
Real experience using AI to ship prototypes, components, and system work faster
Experience building skills, documentation, and rules that enable AI-assisted development against a design system
Strong communication skills
Bias for building and iterating in code
Senior judgment in ambiguous, high-leverage work
Body of work showing shipped design-engineering impact across production UI, component systems, prototypes, and system documentation
Portfolio or relevant design work link required
Must perform services from an eligible country and be authorized to work in country of residence