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Design Engineer, Design System

Key Facts

Remote From: 
Full time
Senior (5-10 years)
Polish

Other Skills

  • Communication
  • Collaboration
  • Detail Oriented

Roles & Responsibilities

  • 7+ years of experience in front-end engineering or design engineering
  • Expertise in modern front-end technologies, especially Typescript and React
  • Experience building or maintaining design systems, tokens, and components
  • Excellent communication skills

Requirements:

  • Own and lead the design system, defining the roadmap and establishing component standards
  • Translate design patterns into robust, accessible components
  • Partner with designers and engineers to improve UI quality and cross-product consistency
  • Create prototypes that demonstrate advanced interactions and validate UX patterns

Job description

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Process: https://hexhq.notion.site/Hex-s-Design-Engineer-Interview-Process-30a45d6bfe7c80488201e66329605316

TeamPage: https://hexhq.notion.site/Design-Hex-21a4d4a08e23457faad1378455e18ac0

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About the role

Hex is looking for a thoughtful, systems-minded Design Engineer to lead and own the next evolution of our product design system (named Spellbook). This role sits within the Design org and partners closely with Product Engineering to build a cohesive, scalable, and high-quality UI foundation.

You will architect, implement, and maintain the primitives that power Hex’s product. This includes components, tokens, documentation, accessibility standards, and advanced interaction patterns. You’ll work closely with designers and engineers to ensure our product experience is crafted with care, consistency, and long-term maintainability in mind.

  • Own and lead the design system. Define the roadmap, establish component standards, improve system ergonomics, and shepherd contributions across teams. You’ll be the point person for how our atoms and molecules get built.
  • Build for scale and quality. Translate design patterns into robust, accessible components. Develop and maintain tokens, documentation, and tooling to ensure adoption and ease of use.
  • Raise the bar through collaboration. Partner deeply with designers and engineers to improve UI quality, visual polish, and cross-product consistency. This includes advocating, educating, and teaching across the org on best practices.
  • Prototype and explore. Create prototypes that demonstrate advanced interactions, help validate UX patterns, and influence product direction.

About you

You would be a great fit if you have:

  • 7+ years of experience in front-end engineering or design engineering, ideally on a product or design system team
  • A strong eye for design, with deep care for layout, motion, affordances, and visual polish
  • Expertise in modern front-end technologies, especially Typescript, React, component-driven architectures, and accessibility best practices
  • Experience building or maintaining design systems, tokens, components, documentation, governance models
  • A portfolio showing UI engineering craft, component thinking, and prototyping ability
  • A systems mindset: you think in primitives and abstractions, not one-off solutions
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to articulate rationale and influence cross-functionally
  • A collaborative, open-minded approach and comfort working with partners across levels
  • Strong attention to detail and a commitment to quality, without losing momentum
  • Bonus: experience going deep on major and minor frontend performance problems

 


In addition to our unique culture, Hex proudly offers a competitive total rewards package, including but not limited to, market-benched salary & equity, comprehensive health benefits, and flexible paid time off.

The salary range for this role is: $170,00 - $240,000

The salary range shown may be a reflection of additional factors such as geographical location and skill ranges/levels we’re open to. Placement in the salary range will be decided upon completion of the interview process, taking into account factors like leaving room for growth, internal fairness & parity, your demonstrated skills, and the depth of your experience. Our Recruiting team will be able to provide more details during the interview process.

By submitting an application the candidate consents to the use of their personal information in accordance with the Hex Privacy policy: https://learn.hex.tech/docs/trust/privacy-policy.

 

Hex Technologies uses AI-assisted tools as part of our application review process, including for resume screening and fraud detection. These tools help our team evaluate applications and verify applicant information. All AI-generated recommendations are reviewed by a member of our recruiting team before any hiring decision is made. No application is automatically rejected based solely on an AI tool's output.

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