Design System Engineer
PermitFlow5 months ago
Base Salary
$190k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the day-to-day development and evolution of PermitFlow’s React component library.
- Build robust, accessible, and documented atoms, molecules, organisms, and templates in Storybook.
- Define and enforce component API contracts, design token usage, prop interfaces, and variant patterns.
- Review pull requests into the component library and maintain quality and consistency.
- Partner with designers using Figma to translate design specifications into production-ready components.
- Manage the design system roadmap, including new component development and application migration work.
- Use Chromatic for visual regression testing and maintain Storybook as the documentation source of truth.
- Lead the cross-team Design Systems Guild and coordinate engineering champions across product squads.
- Reduce frontend complexity through consolidation and design system adoption.
Requirements
- Strong fundamentals in React and TypeScript.
- Demonstrated experience building and maintaining a production design system or component library.
- Portfolio, GitHub profile, or Storybook instance demonstrating relevant work is valued.
- Strong visual and interaction design judgment.
- Experience partnering closely with product designers on specifications, tradeoffs, and abstractions.
- Familiarity with Figma and developer experience tools such as Storybook and Chromatic, or equivalents.
- Strong written communication for documenting standards and decisions.
- Tailwind CSS experience is a strong plus.
- ShadCN or Radix UI primitives experience is a strong plus.
- Familiarity with WCAG accessibility standards is a plus.
Benefits
- Hybrid schedule with 3 in-office days per week in New York City, with preference for NYC-based candidates or those open to relocation.
- 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus a healthcare FSA.
- 401(k) savings plan.
- Unlimited PTO and paid family leave.
- Home office and equipment stipend.
- Daily in-office lunch and dinner.
- Pre-tax commuter benefits for transit and parking.
- Meaningful equity.
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About PermitFlow
PermitFlow is construction's AI workforce. We help builders across the country simplify and accelerate pre-construction. We are the infrastructure behind this country’s infrastructure.