Design System Engineer (Phoenix)

One of our financial enterprise client is looking for an experienced Design Systems Engineer based out of their office in Phoenix, Arizona.

Role Description :

• Designs, evolves, and maintains scalable design systems that enable consistent,accessible, and high-quality user experiences across products and platforms.
• Develops and documents reusable components, patterns, and guidelines that support efficient and cohesive product design and development.
• Partners with product designers, engineers, and cross-functional teams to ensure design system adoption and alignment with product needs. Uses design tools to create and maintain component libraries, documentation, and usage standards.
• Ensures system scalability by incorporating accessibility, usability, and performance best practices.
• Analyzes user needs, product requirements, and system performance to continuously improve the design system. Reviews product implementations for alignment with system standards and provides guidance on system usage.
• Creates and maintains documentation, templates, and governance models to streamline workflows and ensure consistency across teams.

Key Responsibilities :

• Develops, maintains, and evolves design system components, patterns, and guidelines across platforms
• Ensures consistency, scalability, and accessibility of UI components and design patterns
• Creates and maintains design system documentation, including usage guidelines best practices
• Collaborates closely with product designers and engineers to support adoption and implementation of the design system
• Reviews product designs and implementations to ensure alignment with design system standards
• Contributes to governance models, versioning, and release processes for the design system
• Partners with cross-functional teams to identify gaps and opportunities for system improvements
• Presents design system updates, decisions, and rationale to peers and stakeholders with minimal support
• Participates in and contributes to the broader design systems and design community

Qualifications :

• At least 2 years of hands-on experience in design systems or UI systems

• Strong proficiency in Figma, including component libraries, variants, and tokens

• Understanding of design systems, UI architecture, and scalable design practices

• Working knowledge of accessibility standards (e.g., WCAG) and inclusive design

principles

• Ability to collaborate effectively with engineering partners (understanding of front-

end constraints is a plus)

• Communicates clearly and effectively, with strong attention to detail

• Shares solutions and system thinking approaches in an engaging way

• Knowledge of, or at least serious interest in, artificial intelligence (AI) and its

potential use in design systems.

• Familiarity with Agile methodology

Skills :

• Design Systems & Component Libraries

• Accessibility & Inclusive Design

• UI Architecture & Pattern Development

• Design Tokens & Theming

• Documentation & Governance

• Cross-functional Collaboration

• Figma (Components, Variants, Libraries)

• Front-End Awareness (HTML/CSS/React concepts – preferred)