Design Engineer

Job summary

Responsibilities

We're looking for a design engineer to help build and maintain Waypoint, our design system, across both the Figma library and the production codebase. This is not a "designer who codes a little" or an "engineer who dabbles in Figma" role.

• Own and evolve the Figma library for Waypoint: component structure, variants, properties, and documentation, so it stays a reliable source of truth for design teams.
• Build and maintain core Waypoint components, contributing directly to our component packages alongside the design engineering team.
• Work across our token pipeline, keeping design tokens in Figma and their code representations (CSS custom properties, Tailwind config) tightly synced.
• Partner with product designers to translate new patterns into system components, and with product engineers to make sure those components are easy to adopt correctly.
• Help define and refine the workflows and tooling that connect Figma and code (sync scripts, plugins, documentation sites) rather than relying on manual handoff.

What they're looking for

• Own and evolve the Figma library for Waypoint: component structure, variants, properties, and documentation, so it stays a reliable source of truth for design teams.
• Build and maintain core Waypoint components, contributing directly to our component packages alongside the design engineering team.
• Work across our token pipeline, keeping design tokens in Figma and their code representations (CSS custom properties, Tailwind config) tightly synced.
• Partner with product designers to translate new patterns into system components, and with product engineers to make sure those components are easy to adopt correctly.
• Help define and refine the workflows and tooling that connect Figma and code (sync scripts, plugins, documentation sites) rather than relying on manual handoff.

Tech stack

• Figma