Design Engineer (React + Design Systems)

Design EngineerLocation: On-site, APAC region (Bengaluru - Hybrid)Key Skills: Figma, React, TypeScript, Storybook, Design Systems, Design Tokens, AccessibilityAbout the role :We're hiring a Design Engineer to sit across our design and engineering teams. This person will build, own, and maintain our design system — working across Figma and React to design and ship design at a production standard. We're excited about this role — you'll be working directly with the Heads and Directors of Design and Technology to shape it from the ground up.The role is biased toward design. You should have strong design sensibility — you care deeply about typography, spacing, interaction quality, and the details that compound into how a product feels. You also need to be able to build what you design in production-quality React.We are not looking for a design system designer without engineering experience.We are not looking for an engineer without design experience. We are looking for someone with design system experience who can do both.What you'll do :Build, own, and maintain the design system as a coded React component library (Storybook, tokens, documentation)Design and build UI in both Figma and code — working in real-time collaboration with the design and engineering teamsSet up and manage a contribution process for the design system so other teams can adopt and extend itSet up, document, and maintain components to a production standardWork with the engineering team to implement the design system across productsBuild and maintain roadmaps for rolling the design system into the production applicationProduce tooling for validating designs in the pipeline — ensuring what's built matches what's designedPrototype ideas quickly in code so the team can validate directions before committing engineering resourceEnsure consistency and quality across products by establishing and enforcing component standardsContribute to design reviews, evaluating work against the system and the platformUse AI tools as part of your workflow — to accelerate prototyping, explore variations, and augment your output without replacing craftWhat we're looking for :A portfolio or personal site is required — we want to see how you think, not just what you've shippedStrong design skills — layout, typography, colour, interaction design, motionComfortable leading design decisions in Figma and defending themProduction-level React and TypeScript — you write clean, maintainable component code, not just prototypesProven design system experience — you've built, contributed to, or maintained a system at component-library level (Storybook, design tokens, documentation)An understanding of accessibility, cross-browser consistency, and performance as non-negotiable parts of qualityProactive — you spot inconsistencies, flag them, and fix them without being askedComfortable operating across two teams — you're not waiting for briefs, you're embedded in the work and shaping it

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