Senior Design Engineer

What You’ll Do

• Design, build, and evolve scalable design engineering solutions that improve product quality and user experience
• Maintain and evolve the design and development of MNTN’s new cross-platform design system
• Define long-term tooling, documentation standards, and contribution models
• Implement responsive and accessible UI components using modern frontend technologies
• Champion the user experience and accessibility of our products, and help keep our quality bar as high as possible
• Collaborate with and support designers to evolve our long-term product vision, design systems, and internal design collaboration process
• Collaborate with engineers across multiple teams to establish best practices and improve workflow of component implementation
• Create and maintain processes, tools, and reusable code patterns that enable efficient designer–engineer collaboration within the design system

What You’ll Bring

• 6+ years of experience in a design engineering role or similar, with a strong portfolio showcasing design and development projects
• Proficiency in Figma and experience or curiosity in exploring emerging AI design tools (e.g. Cursor, V0, Claude, etc)
• Excellent frontend skills with modern approaches (React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, core/vanilla CSS) and a strong foundation in prototyping and implementation
• Familiarity with ShadCN and Radix for building reusable UI components
• A keen ability to articulate the rationale, process, and impact behind your design decisions and adapt to technical constraints in creative ways using your knowledge of web technologies
• A high level of visual design skill and strong understanding of UX and UI principles
• Strong organizational skills and a love for documentation
• A proactive individual that can self-start and prompt action or discussions on how to improve team dynamics or process within the context of their role
• Fluent in design tokens and how they translate to design and engineers
• Experience with interaction design
• Report and work closely with the VP of Product design

Preferred Qualifications

• Worked in startup environments where you were involved in the establishment of design systems
• Knowledge of accessibility development practices
• Working with telemetry to inform design and development decisions
• Leveraging AI in your day-to-day workflow

MNTN Perks

• 100% remote within the US
• Flexible vacation policy
• Annual vacation allowance for travel related expenses
• Three-day weekend every month of the year
• Competitive compensation
• 100% healthcare coverage
• 401k plan
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) for dependent, medical, and dental care
• Access to coaching, therapy, and professional development