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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # design engineer - **Company:** Ai, Inc - **Location:** United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $195,000.0 - $238,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Component-Based Software Engineering, Client Server Models, Software as a Service, Software Documentation, Collaborative Software, Data Centers, Programming Tools, Design of User Interfaces, Apache Maven, Semantic HTML, Enterprise Software Applications, B2b Software, Material UI, Production Code, Figma, Web Technologies, Front End Software Development, Code Restructuring - **Published:** October 6, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.builtincolorado.com/job/senior-design-engineer/11517554?handler=ApplyRedirect ## About the Role This is a hands-on senior IC role with high leverage across Product, Design, and Engineering. The right person brings strong frontend engineering judgment, excellent UI craft, deep design-systems experience, and the ability to influence teams without becoming a bottleneck., * 6+ years of experience designing and building production frontend experiences, ideally in complex B2B SaaS, enterprise software, developer tools, or similarly deep product domains. * Strong frontend engineering skills with modern web technologies and component-based architecture. You do not need to have used Front's exact stack, but you should be able to ramp quickly in a large, mature codebase. * High UI/UX craft and strong product taste. You can evaluate whether an interface is not only visually polished, but also usable, accessible, flexible, and maintainable. * Experience building or maintaining component libraries, Storybook documentation, visual regression workflows, design-token pipelines, Figma workflows/plugins, or similar design-engineering infrastructure. * Strong accessibility fundamentals, including semantic HTML, ARIA patterns, keyboard interaction models, focus management, and inclusive component states. * Strong communication skills. You can explain technical and design-system decisions clearly to both specialists and non-specialists. * A portfolio or body of work showing shipped design-engineering impact: production UI, component systems, prototypes, Storybook examples, design-system documentation, or code-backed product work. Bonus points * Experience working on products with a large existing frontend surface area, multiple product teams, and a mature or evolving design system. * Experience in customer support, customer operations, collaboration software, internal tools, developer tools, or other workflow-heavy SaaS products. * Experience consolidating fragmented component libraries or aligning Figma libraries with production code. * Experience using AI-assisted coding or design tools to accelerate prototyping, refactoring, and product iteration. What you'll bring to Front * A systems mindset: you see patterns, edge cases, and long-term maintenance costs, not just individual screens. * A high craft bar: you care about the last 10% of interaction detail, visual polish, accessibility, and usability. * A builder's bias: you prefer to make ideas real in code, learn from how they behave, and iterate quickly. * A collaborative approach: you raise the quality of work around you by making the right path easier for other designers and engineers. * Senior-level judgment: you can operate through ambiguity, prioritize high-leverage improvements, and sequence change in a way that teams can actually adopt ## Description * Own and evolve Front's design system across Figma, Storybook, and production code, helping create a clearer source of truth between design and engineering. * Build, refactor, and maintain reusable, accessible, well-documented UI components that product teams can confidently use across Front's core surfaces. * Identify and reduce design/code drift across our existing component libraries, legacy UI patterns, and evolving Figma system. * Establish patterns, conventions, and guardrails that improve consistency, accessibility, maintainability, and developer experience. * Prototype new interaction patterns and reference implementations in code to help teams align quickly and de-risk complex product decisions. * Partner closely with Product Designers, Product Managers, and Engineers to define what "great" looks like for complex workflows, edge cases, and enterprise-grade product experiences. * Use AI tools thoughtfully to accelerate prototyping, iteration, production changes, and system maintenance while applying strong judgment to the output., Lead the structural design and development of primary and secondary aircraft structures for autonomous UAVs. 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