Design Technologist
Web Designer
Web Designer
Boston , Massachusetts Contract Jun 3, 2025
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
Qualifications
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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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