Buffer

Senior Design Engineer

Buffer
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3 days ago
Remote, WorldwideSenior

Base Salary

$157k - $202k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build polished, interactive web experiences for buffer.com, including product launch pages, brand storytelling, landing pages, and marketing tools.
  • Create thoughtful animations and interactions using Motion, CSS animations, or other appropriate approaches.
  • Evolve and maintain Buffer’s design system and component library by improving consistency, filling gaps, and refining reusable patterns.
  • Improve accessibility and performance across buffer.com through audits, fixes, and ongoing standards improvements.
  • Pair with engineers, review code, and share expertise on front-end architecture, design systems, and accessibility patterns.

Requirements

  • Strong front-end engineering experience with React and TypeScript.
  • Hands-on experience with front-end animation, design systems, and component libraries.
  • Experience improving and evolving existing systems rather than only building new ones.
  • Strong attention to accessibility, performance, clean code, visual hierarchy, spacing, typography, and user flows.
  • Ability to make sound UX decisions in code and work effectively without fully defined requirements.
  • Ability to collaborate across marketing, design, and engineering and communicate technical decisions to non-technical stakeholders.
  • Examples of work such as a portfolio, personal site, open-source contributions, animation work, component systems, or projects demonstrating implementation ownership.
  • At least 5 years of experience is likely, although depth of experience and impact are prioritized over a specific number of years.
  • Next.js experience is used by the team; experience with Next.js App Router, SSR/ISR patterns, or Edge functions is a plus.

Benefits

  • Fully distributed and remote work environment with asynchronous collaboration.
  • Travel to work together in person once or twice per year, with these events highly encouraged.
  • Paid two-day collaboration period as part of the interview process.
  • Inclusive workplace focused on diverse perspectives and employee development.

Tech Stack

CSSExpressGoogle BigQueryNext.jsReactTypeScript

Categories

Buffer

About Buffer

51-200 employees

The most flexible social media toolkit from the most flexible company. ✨ Create, schedule, publish, and analyze your posts in one place.

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