# Senior Design Engineer
**Company:** [Mntn](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/mntn)
**Location:** Remote
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** Figma, React, TypeScript, Tailwind, CSS, Shadcn, Radix, Design Systems, Design Tokens, Accessibility
**Posted:** 2026-05-27
> Lead design engineering efforts to build and scale a cross-platform design system, implementing responsive UI components with React, TypeScript, and Tailwind while bridging design and engineering teams. Requires 6+ years experience and strong frontend + Figma skills.
## Job Description
## 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
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