Senior Design Engineer

About Front

Front is the customer operations platform built for B2B complexity, keeping every team, tool, and customer conversation in sync so companies can scale without losing connection. Over 9,000 companies, including Uber Freight, Navan, and Stripe, rely on Front for its operational layer that makes customer-facing work succeed.

Backed by Sequoia Capital and Salesforce Ventures, Front has raised $204M and is recognized as a Certified Great Place to Work in 2026, Top Places to Work by USA Today 2025, Y Combinator's Top Companies in 2023, #4 on Fortune’s Best Workplaces in the Bay Area™, and Inc. Magazine's 2022 Best Workplaces.

AI is transforming customer service, and Front is leading this shift with 9,000+ companies using its platform.

Role Overview

Front is seeking a Senior Design Engineer to bridge the gap between design and engineering. This role involves building and maintaining a production-quality design system across Figma, Storybook, and code, ensuring consistency, accessibility, and maintainability.

You’ll own the design system’s evolution, creating reusable components, reducing design/code drift, and establishing best practices for high-quality UI development.

This is a hands-on, high-leverage role requiring strong frontend engineering judgment, UI craftsmanship, and deep design-system experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and evolve Front’s design system across Figma, Storybook, and production code, ensuring a clear source of truth.
• Build, refactor, and maintain reusable, accessible, well-documented UI components for product teams.
• Identify and reduce design/code drift in existing component libraries and legacy UI patterns.
• Establish patterns, conventions, and guardrails for consistency, accessibility, and developer experience.
• Prototype new interaction patterns and reference implementations to de-risk product decisions.
• Collaborate with Product Designers, Product Managers, and Engineers to define high-quality workflows.
• Leverage AI tools thoughtfully to accelerate prototyping, iteration, and maintenance.

Required Skills & Experience

• 6+ years of experience designing and building production frontend experiences, ideally in complex B2B SaaS or enterprise software.
• Strong frontend engineering skills with modern web technologies and component-based architecture.
• High UI/UX craft and strong product taste, with expertise in accessibility (semantic HTML, ARIA, keyboard interactions).
• Experience with component libraries, Storybook, visual regression workflows, Figma plugins, or design-token pipelines.
• Strong communication skills to explain technical decisions to both specialists and non-specialists.
• Portfolio or body of work showing shipped design-engineering impact (e.g., production UI, component systems, Storybook examples).

Bonus Experience

• Working on products with large frontend surfaces, multiple teams, and evolving design systems.
• Experience in customer support, collaboration software, or workflow-heavy SaaS products.
• Consolidating fragmented component libraries or aligning Figma libraries with production code.
• Using AI-assisted coding/design tools for prototyping and iteration.

What You’ll Bring to Front

• A systems mindset focused on patterns, edge cases, and long-term maintenance.
• A high craft bar with attention to detail in visual polish, accessibility, and usability.
• A builder’s bias—preferring to make ideas real in code and iterate quickly.
• A collaborative approach that raises the quality of work for designers and engineers.
• Senior-level judgment to operate through ambiguity and prioritize high-leverage improvements.

Compensation & Perks

• Competitive salary
• Equity (post-series D, backed by top VCs)
• Private health insurance (including no-cost plan options)
• Paid parental leave
• Flexible time off policy
• Flexibility to work from home Monday and Friday
• Mental health support with Workplace Options
• Family planning support with Maven
• $100/month Lifestyle Stipend (fitness, wellness, etc.)
• Wellness Days and Winter Break (offices closed Dec 25–Jan 1)