Design Technologist

Design Technologist

Web Designer

Boston,  Massachusetts

Contract

Job Description:

Design Technologist

Location: Remote

Compensation: $70.00 hourly

We're looking for a Design Technologist to join our team to help build, scale, and maintain our design system infrastructure. This hybrid role blends front-end engineering and design system thinking with the goal of increasing velocity, consistency, and collaboration across product, brand, and engineering teams. As we scale, our design system is a critical foundation. We need a technologist who can bridge the gap between designers and developers-someone who can translate visual language into robust, reusable components, workflows, and tools that empower teams to move faster without compromising quality.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with engineers and designers to build and maintain our design system (design tokens, components, and other code patterns) and improve it over time.
• Author beautiful, accessible components for web platforms.
• Build internal tools like Figma plugins and lint rules to empower engineers and designers to use the design system to its fullest extent.
• Provide guidance to teams on the best way to use design system components and tools across their projects through pairing and documentation.
• Create interactive prototypes to communicate your work. Use user research and data to inform your reasoning.
• Write clear, accessible documentation for the design system - including usage guidelines, component behavior, and integration instructions.
• Review code and designs to ensure consistency, accessibility, and performance.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of work experience as a software engineer building, shipping, and iterating on product features or internal tools.
• 1+ years' experience working on a design system.
• Expertise with web technologies (Vue, TypeScript).
• A deep understanding of accessibility and its application in creating robust user interfaces.
• Strong, clear written communication skills.
• Experience working on cross-functional teams with designers or product managers.
• Willingness to learn new technical skills and expand your toolkit.
• A consistent track record of delivering multi-milestone projects on time and at a high level.
• Experience safely migrating existing front-end codebases to new technical patterns at scale.

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