As a design engineer at WRITER, you'll own the Writer Design System (WDS) — how it's built, how it's maintained, and how both humans and AI agents use it to ship product.
Own the Writer Design System (WDS) as your primary domain — agentify and maintain it…
Design and build production-quality UI components and features, owning surfaces from sketch to ship.
Ship design-led work that wouldn't survive an engineering backlog — polish passes, micro-interactions, and brand moments that make the product feel alive.
Architect new primitives and extend the system's core components, shaping its technical direction while keeping documentation, examples, and libraries in sync across Figma…
Solid instincts for animation principles including easing curves, choreography, anticipation, follow-through, interruptibility, and perceived performance.
Fluency in Figma at expert level — auto-layout, variants, variables, and code connect — and proficiency with design engineering technologies like framer-motion, gsap…
A demonstrable obsession with craft, backed by a portfolio, side projects, GitHub, or production work that includes systems-level work and not just feature work.
Experience driving adoption of a design system or shared platform across an engineering org, with a track record of influencing technical or design direction…
Experience: Mid-level · 4–8 years · Salary: $129K – $234K • Offers Equity • Multiple Ranges · Job type: Full-time
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