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Lead Design Engineer

Austin

$136,000-$205,275 / year

full-timeseniorSoftware

Tech Stack

Description

You will own the design and technical direction of Beacon, a design system at Braze, writing production code in React and TypeScript, building automation and tooling, and mentoring designers. Your work will reduce fragmentation, improve accessibility, and future-proof the system for AI-assisted workflows.

Requirements

  • 5+ years in design systems, design engineering, or highly technical product design
  • Strong design craft judgment at the system level
  • Fluent in React, TypeScript, component architecture, modern CSS, and semantic HTML
  • Fluent in Figma including variables, design tokens, and token-to-code pipeline workflows
  • Experience driving accessibility improvements at scale

Responsibilities

  • Own design and technical direction of Beacon in partnership with Engineering
  • Write production code for component architecture, tokens, and design-to-code pipeline
  • Partner with frontend engineers on CSS architecture, semantic HTML, and WCAG compliance
  • Mentor designers in accessibility, responsive systems, and implementation-aware design
  • Build automation and tooling for system compliance and AI-assisted workflows
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