Design Engineer

What you'll do

• 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

What you bring

• 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%
• You 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

You'll stand out if you

• 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