Junipersquare
Staff Design Engineer
Americas (USA or Canada), Remote. Posted 3 months ago
The role
You will own the design system strategy and roadmap, defining standards and AI integration for design-to-engineering workflows. You will build infrastructure for designers to ship in code and set technical direction for UI quality across the product.
What you will do
- Own the design system strategy and roadmap
- Define the AI enablement strategy for design-to-engineering
- Set the technical direction for UI quality across the product
- Identify systemic quality gaps
- Build the infrastructure that lets designers ship in code
- Partner with Design and Engineering leadership to shape long-term collaboration
Required qualifications
- 10+ years of experience working across design and front-end engineering
- Portfolio that demonstrates both craft and leadership impact
- Proven experience building and scaling design systems
- Strong, defensible point of view on what makes a great design system
- Deep front-end engineering skills (TypeScript, React, CSS)
- Experience defining technical strategy for design tooling, developer experience, or design-to-engineering workflows
- Experience thinking through how AI tools change team-level design and engineering workflows
- Strong communication and influence skills
- Fluency with AI-powered coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code, v0.dev, or equivalent)
Nice to have
- Experience in a complex B2B or enterprise SaaS environment, ideally in a data-heavy domain
- Background leading design systems work that scaled across multiple product lines or engineering teams
- Experience defining or operating AI-powered design-to-engineering workflows at a team or org level
- Background in Financial Services, Investment Management, or Real Estate (Fintech experience is a plus)
- Familiarity with design tokens, component libraries, and variables in Figma at a systems level
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision care for you and your family
- Life insurance
- Mental wellness coverage
- Fertility and growing family support
- Flex Time Off in addition to company-paid holidays
- Paid family leave, medical leave, and bereavement leave policies
- Retirement saving plans
- Allowance to customize your work and technology setup at home
- Annual professional development stipend
About the company
Juniper Square is an Operations Partner for private markets, unifying technology, data, and fund administration services into a single platform. The company is founder-led and employs over 1,000 people.