Lead Design Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California.

📋 Description

• Take charge of the relationship between the design system and production code.

• Create and sustain reusable components, design tokens, and shared foundations across iOS, Android, and Web platforms.

• Convert high-fidelity designs into production-ready components with outstanding visual fidelity.

• Collaborate with Engineering to establish a component architecture that is scalable, flexible, efficient, accessible, and easily adoptable.

• Enhance design-to-code workflows through tools, automation, documentation, and an improved developer experience.

• Develop systems that boost speed while ensuring quality and consistency are upheld.

• Strengthen governance regarding component APIs, tokens, naming conventions, versioning, and adoption.

• Review implementations and pinpoint opportunities to enhance both the design system and product quality.

• Investigate and construct AI-driven workflows for designing, building, documenting, and maintaining products.

• Contribute to the future direction of product development at Step.

• Collaborate with Product Design and Engineering leadership to advance Step’s design platform and minimize product development friction.

• Report directly to the Head of Design.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive experience in building and refining design systems for modern consumer software applications.

• Strong frontend engineering expertise in creating reusable component libraries and design infrastructure.

• In-depth knowledge of design tokens, component architecture, accessibility, documentation, and contemporary design system best practices.

• Solid understanding of Figma and current design-system workflows.

• Systems-thinking mindset towards enhancing product development workflows.

• Exceptional attention to visual detail.

• Proven ability to work effectively with designers and engineers.

• Strong communication skills and the capability to influence technical and product decisions across various disciplines.

• A keen interest in AI and emerging design tools.

• Experience in delivering high-quality mobile or web applications.

• A portfolio or work samples that showcase technical execution and design systems thinking.

• Preferred experience with React Native or cross-platform component libraries.

• Preferred background in building token pipelines or design system tools.

• Preferred experience with Storybook or similar documentation platforms.

• Preferred experience in developing Figma plugins or internal developer tools.

• Preferred experience in utilizing AI to enhance design workflows or develop design tools.

• Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary.

• Stock options.

• Comprehensive medical insurance.

• Dental coverage.

• Vision insurance.

• Company-sponsored life insurance.

• 401k plan with Safe Harbor company matching.

• Flexible vacation policy.

• Paid company holidays.

• 12 weeks of paid parental leave with a flexible return-to-work option.

• Company-provided technology package.

• Remote-first work culture.

• Reasonable accommodations during the application and interview process.