2h ago
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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