Staff Design Systems Engineer

2 days ago

Ottawa, ON, Canada Designed, Inc. Remote Full-time $266,000 - $336,000 Contract

Shape Juniper Square’s design system with TypeScript, React, and CSS expertise in a remote full-time role across the United States or Canada.

As a Staff Design Engineer, you will set design-system strategy, governance, adoption, and long-term direction. You will partner across Design, Engineering, and Product while defining AI-enabled design-to-engineering workflows. The work supports a complex private-markets SaaS platform serving investment managers, fund accounting, investor portals, and reporting needs.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Own design-system strategy, roadmap, governance, and contribution model
  • Define AI enablement across prototype-to-production workflows
  • Set technical direction and standards for UI quality
  • Build workflows, tooling, and templates for designers shipping code
  • Shape collaboration between Design and Engineering leadership

Requirements:

  • 10+ years across design and front-end engineering
  • Experience scaling design systems across product organizations
  • Strong TypeScript, React, CSS, and production-code skills
  • Experience defining design tooling or developer-experience strategy
  • Fluency with Cursor, Claude Code, v0.dev, or equivalent

Bring design-system leadership, front-end craft, and AI workflow expertise to Juniper Square’s complex SaaS platform.