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Software Engineer, Design Systems

Assembled·Remote·$160,000–$270,000 / year
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Assembled provides a unified platform for coordinating customer support operations across in-house agents, BPOs, and AI. The role is for a Software Engineer focused on leading the technical vision for a new design system and AI-native design-to-code workflows. The engineer will work closely with a Design Systems Designer and make decisions affecting component APIs, token architecture, performance, accessibility, developer experience, and AI-generated production UI.

AI skillsThis role asks for AI & agentic skills, exactly what we teach at Into Design Systems

What you'll do

  • Own the technical direction of the design system, including token architecture, components, tooling, testing, and adoption
  • Shape how AI coding agents build UI through component APIs, documentation, guardrails, and developer workflows
  • Modernize frontend foundations, including component architecture, tooling, and development patterns
  • Improve frontend quality across performance, accessibility, responsiveness, and interaction detail
  • Build infrastructure for reliability at scale, including testing, visual regression, CI/CD, and versioned releases
  • Establish frontend best practices across teams
  • Influence product decisions early by surfacing technical constraints, tradeoffs, and opportunities during the design process

What they're looking for

  • 3+ years of experience building frontend products with meaningful ownership over architecture and technical direction
  • Experience owning or significantly evolving a design system used across multiple teams or products
  • Deep frontend expertise, including TypeScript, component architecture, and modern frontend tooling
  • Experience improving product quality, including performance, accessibility, usability, and interaction design
  • Strong product and design instincts with attention to craft and user experience
  • Clear communication and effective collaboration across engineering and design
  • Interest in AI-assisted development workflows and how design systems can guide and accelerate AI-generated code
  • Nice to have: experience with React, Storybook, and data visualization libraries such as visx, D3, or Chart.js

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