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Design Engineer, Design Systems
Confido 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
As a Design Engineer, you will build an AI-ready design system from scratch, including tokens, components, styles, and documentation. You will work closely with product and engineering teams to ensure design intent is effectively translated into the final product.
Responsibilities
- 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
Requirements
- 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
Benefits
- Equity — own a piece of what you're building
- Fully paid health coverage with Aetna (we cover 100% of premiums)
- Top-tier dental and vision through Guardian
- 12 weeks paid parental leave
- Unlimited PTO, plus regular 4-day holiday weekends we actually take
- 401(k) through Vestwell
- Paid relocation — we'll get you here
- Full desk setup on day one (laptop, monitor, keyboard) + a $200 stipend to make it yours
- Catered Friday lunches, team dinners on us, and unlimited coffee + snacks featuring our own brands
Key Skills
About Confido
Confido is a small, in-person team in New York City, building the operating system for CPG brands. They are growing 5x year over year and recently raised a $15M Series A led by Footwork and Y Combinator.
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