# Design Engineer

**Company:** [Confido Legal](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/confido-legal)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Frontend Engineering
**Salary:** $170k – $250k/yr
**Experience:** 4+ years
**Skills:** React, TypeScript, CSS, Figma, Design Systems, Animations, Tokens, Components, Prototyping, AI Tools
**Posted:** 2026-04-23

> Builds AI-ready design system with tokens, components, and documentation for designers and developers. Implements pixel-perfect React/TS components, prototypes rapidly, and bridges design-engineering gap. Requires 4+ years frontend/design engineering experience.

## Job Description

## 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

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