Senior Software Engineer - Design

The role

You will own design quality end-to-end from wireframes to production-quality UI. You will build core UI components and maintain a design system for AI-powered mortgage workflow tools.

What you will do

• Own the end-to-end design process for features from discovery to implementation in React/TypeScript
• Build and maintain a design system and component library
• Write accessible, production-quality React components
• Collaborate with PMs and engineers during discovery
• Define and enforce visual and interaction design standards
• Maintain Figma libraries, component documentation, and design-to-code handoff tooling
• Partner with engineering to ensure design system components are implemented correctly
• Design for accessibility and advocate for inclusive design practices
• Develop and document UX patterns for complex interaction paradigms
• Contribute to product strategy discussions and motion/microinteraction guidelines

Required qualifications

• Write production-quality React components in TypeScript

Nice to have

• Portfolio showing high-craft visual/interaction design in complex B2B/SaaS
• Production React + TypeScript proficiency
• Experience building design systems with component libraries, variant APIs, and documented stories
• Deep Figma skills: variables, auto-layout, variants, prototyping, library hygiene
• Accessibility proficiency: WCAG, ARIA, color/contrast, motion sensitivity
• Comfort designing AI UX: uncertainty, intervention affordances, streaming content, error states
• Facility with data-dense UIs: tables, filtering/sorting, bulk actions
• User research skills for fast iteration
• Product mindset; crisp written communication and rationale; bias to ship without compromising correctness

Benefits

• Robust medical coverage (100% of employee + family premiums covered)
• Vision & dental coverage
• 401(k)
• HSA / FSA
• Access to lender partner’s employee loan program
• Remote-first culture
• Flexible time off

About the company

Loancrate builds AI-native tooling to automate mortgage workflows. The remote team has enabled customers to power over $85 billion in new home loans since starting in 2020.