Design engineer (US)

Responsibilities

• Own, maintain, and improve the Writer Design System for human and AI-agent developers.
• Design and build production-quality UI components and features from initial sketches through shipment.
• Deliver polished frontend work including micro-interactions, animation, accessibility improvements, and brand moments.
• Architect new design-system primitives and keep Figma, Markdown skills, Storybook, documentation, examples, and libraries synchronized.
• Shape design-to-code workflows and research tools and practices that improve productivity across the EPD organization.
• Partner with designers, product managers, and engineering leads to measure system adoption, close gaps, and uphold design-system standards.

Requirements

• 4–8+ years of experience building production frontends with TypeScript and React.
• Experience owning a system, platform, or product surface end-to-end rather than only individual features.
• Strong knowledge of animation principles including easing curves, choreography, anticipation, follow-through, interruptibility, and perceived performance.
• Expert-level Figma proficiency with auto-layout, variants, variables, and Code Connect.
• Proficiency with Framer Motion, GSAP, and Lottie for web-based animation.
• A portfolio, side projects, GitHub work, or production examples demonstrating systems-level frontend and design-engineering work.
• Experience driving adoption of a design system or shared platform across an engineering organization and influencing technical or design direction.
• Experience with AI product surfaces including tool-call UIs, streaming responses, agent state, and dynamic UI rendering.
• Commitment to WRITER’s values of Connect, Challenge, and Own.

Benefits

• Hybrid work based out of WRITER hubs in San Francisco, Chicago, Austin, New York City, Seattle, or London.
• Generous paid time off and company holidays.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and families.
• Sixteen weeks of paid parental leave for all parents.
• Fertility and family planning support.
• Early-detection cancer testing through Galleri.
• Flexible spending account and dependent FSA options.
• Health savings account with company contribution for eligible plans.
• Annual wellness and learning-and-development stipends.
• Company-wide and team off-sites.
• Company stock options and 401(k).