Design Engineer, Design Systems

About the role

We're a small, in-person team in New York City, shaping the product, the culture, and the company itself. If you're passionate about building the operating system for CPG brands and want to be part of something big, we'd love to meet you.

Responsibilities

• Build Confido's design system from the ground up—tokens, components, styles, and the documentation that makes them usable by designers and developers alike
• Implement production-grade React/TS components with pixel-perfect execution and interactions that delight
• Design in context: work across real product surfaces to understand how components relate, communicate, and hold up before abstracting them
• Bridge design and engineering, translating intent into code and pushing what's possible in both directions
• Rapidly prototype new concepts and patterns to validate ideas before full implementation
• Socialize the design system across the team so it actually gets used and helps everyone ship faster

Requirements

• 4+ years of design engineering or frontend experience, ideally on a product or design system team
• Equally comfortable in Figma and your code editor—you move fluidly between both
• Strong frontend engineering skills: TypeScript, React, CSS, animations, and a component-driven mindset
• A strong eye for design, with deep care for layout, motion, affordances, and visual polish
• Experience building or meaningfully contributing to a design system: tokens, components, documentation, governance
• You've shipped polished products and know what it takes to get from 90% to 100%
• Can move fast—prototyping ideas in hours, not days
• A systems mindset: you think in primitives and abstractions, not one-off solutions
• Excited about AI and how it changes the way designers and developers work

Qualifications

• Have shipped a design system (or major version of one) and know what makes them fail
• Prototype in code to think, not just to present
• Have designed for B2B financial, enterprise, or operational domains before
• Use AI tools actively in your workflow, not as a gimmick, but as a multiplier
• Treat ambiguity as an invitation

Skills

• Strong frontend engineering skills: TypeScript, React, CSS, animations, and a component-driven mindset
• A strong eye for design, with deep care for layout, motion, affordances, and visual polish
• Experience building or meaningfully contributing to a design system: tokens, components, documentation, governance
• Prototype in code to think, not just to present
• Have designed for B2B financial, enterprise, or operational domains before
• Use AI tools actively in your workflow, not as a gimmick, but as a multiplier
• Treat ambiguity as an invitation

Benefits

Learn more about Design at Confido here 🌴

• Equity — own a piece of what you're building
• Full paid health coverage with Aetna (we cover 100% of premiums)
• Top-tier dental and vision through Guardian
• 12 weeks paid parental leave
• Unlimited PTO, plus regular 4-day holiday weekends we actually take
• 401(k) through Vestwell
• Catered Friday lunches, team dinners on us, and unlimited coffee + snacks featuring our own brands

Pay

Compensation Range: $170K - $250K

Schedule

Location: New York, New York (Chelsea) - Relocation Assistance Included