Senior Design Engineer

The role

You will design and build product experiences, including borrower applications, dashboards, and loan officer tools. You will own the design system and build components that customers can theme and embed. You will use code to turn designs into production-ready interfaces.

What you will do

• Design and build product experiences from exploration to production without handoff
• Own Pylon's design system including tokens, type, color, spacing, and component library
• Build themeable and embeddable components for customers
• Simplify complicated workflows and dense mortgage data using layout, hierarchy, interaction, and motion
• Prototype in real code with real data and iterate based on user feedback
• Manage details like states, edge cases, responsiveness, and accessibility
• Work with PMs and engineers to raise the design bar
• Use AI and agentic coding tools throughout the process

Required qualifications

• 3+ years as a product designer who codes, a design engineer, or a frontend engineer who makes the design calls
• A portfolio of live products or working prototypes with excellent visual and interaction work
• Great taste and strong fundamentals in typography, layout, hierarchy, color, interaction, and motion
• Fluency in React, TypeScript, semantic HTML, and modern CSS
• Ability to ship production-quality frontend code
• Experience building or leading a design system or component library, including tokens and theming
• Comfort in Figma
• A strong grasp of accessibility and responsive design
• Experience using AI and agentic coding tools in your design work

Nice to have

• experience designing data-heavy or workflow-heavy products, especially in fintech, lending, or another regulated industry

About the company

Pylon is a vertically integrated mortgage platform that turns origination into a single API. It is a publicly traded company backed by Peter Thiel, Conversion Capital, QED, Citi, Fifth Wall, and the founders of Ramp, Blend, and Mercury.