As Front’s first Design Engineer, you’ll be a hands-on senior IC with high leverage across Product, Design, and Engineering. You’ll combine strong frontend engineering judgment, excellent UI craft, and deep design-systems expertise to personally design, build, and ship improvements across our mature product and codebase.

1. Optimize our design system for humans and agents

• Lead the design system’s future architecture across design, documentation, and production code by defining its source-of-truth model, contribution workflows, and the tools that best support them (current tools include Figma and Storybook).
• Build, refactor, and maintain a living system of reusable, accessible, well-documented components and guidance that both people and AI agents can reliably discover, use, and contribute to.
• Build automations and guardrails that keep design, documentation, and code aligned, surface drift, and reduce manual maintenance.
• Use AI tools thoughtfully to accelerate implementation, migration, and system maintenance while applying strong judgment to the output.

2. Raise Front’s product UI bar

• Work hands-on across design and frontend code to improve interaction patterns, micro-animations, component states, accessibility, consistency, polish, and delightful finishing details across the product.
• Personally design and implement reusable components and reference patterns that make high-quality UI easier to ship.
• Partner cross-functionally with Product and Design to align on the best UI solutions that serve user needs.

3. Enable and educate designers and engineers

• Establish clear conventions, contribution paths, and practical guidance that build shared fluency in design systems and UI implementation.
• Teach and support teams through documentation, pairing, reviews, workshops, and shared best practices so designers and engineers can contribute with greater autonomy and confidence.
• Make the right path easier through better defaults, tooling, and guardrails rather than becoming a bottleneck or relying on centralized approval.

What skills & experience do you need?

• 6+ years of experience designing and building production frontend experiences, ideally in B2B SaaS, enterprise software, developer tools, or similarly mature product environments.
• 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 craft and strong product taste. You can evaluate whether an interface is visually polished, consistent, accessible, responsive, and maintainable.
• Deep experience architecting, building, or maintaining design systems across design and code (components, tokens, documentation, governance, accessibility, contribution models), ideally with hands-on experience applying these systems to AI agents and agent-assisted workflows.
• Experience choosing and implementing design-engineering tooling and automation—for example, visual regression, design-token pipelines, component documentation, code-to-design connections, linting, or CI checks.
• Strong accessibility fundamentals, including semantic HTML, ARIA patterns, keyboard interaction models, focus management, and inclusive component states.
• Strong communication and teaching skills. You can explain technical and design-system decisions clearly, help others build shared fluency, and influence adoption through practical guidance.
• A portfolio or body of work showing shipped design-engineering impact: production UI, component systems, interaction details, prototypes, documentation, automation, or code-backed product work.
• Experience using AI-assisted coding or design tools to accelerate prototyping, refactoring, and product iteration.

• 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.

What you’ll bring to Front

• Senior-level judgment: you can operate through ambiguity, prioritize high-leverage improvements, and sequence change in a way that teams can actually adopt.
• A builder’s bias: you prefer to make ideas real in code, learn from how they behave, and iterate quickly.
• A high craft bar: you care about the last 10% of interaction detail, visual polish, accessibility, and usability.
• A systems mindset: you see patterns, edge cases, and long-term maintenance costs, not just individual screens.
• A collaborative approach: you raise the quality of work around you by making the right path easier for other designers and engineers

• Competitive salary
• Equity (we are post-series D & backed by some of the best VCs in the US)
• Private health insurance, including plan options at no cost to employees
• Paid parental leave
• Flexible time off policy
• Flexibility to work from home Monday and Friday, unless posted as a fully remote role
• Mental health support with Workplace Options
• Family planning support with Maven
• $100 per month Lifestyle Stipend to spend on fitness, health and wellness, and other activities
• Wellness Days - Fronteers get an additional day off on months with no holidays
• Winter Break - Our offices are closed from Christmas to New Year's Day!