[Remote] Software Engineer, Design Systems
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Assembled is a company that focuses on balancing human agents and AI for customer support. They are seeking a Software Engineer to lead the technical vision for a new design system and AI-native workflows, influencing product teams and ensuring high-quality user experiences.
Responsibilities
- Own the technical direction of our design system, from token architecture and components to tooling, testing, and adoption
- Shape how AI coding agents build UI, through component APIs, documentation, guardrails, and developer workflows
- Modernize our frontend foundations, including component architecture, tooling, and development patterns
- Raise the bar for frontend quality, including performance, accessibility, responsiveness, and interaction detail
- Build the infrastructure that keeps the system reliable at scale, including testing, visual regression, CI/CD, and versioned releases
- Establish frontend best practices across teams, helping engineers build more consistent, maintainable, and high-quality user experiences
- Influence product decisions early, surfacing technical constraints, tradeoffs, and opportunities throughout the design process
Skills
- Has 3+ years of experience building frontend products, with meaningful ownership over architecture and technical direction
- Has owned or significantly evolved a design system used across multiple teams or products
- Has deep frontend expertise, including TypeScript, component architecture, and modern frontend tooling
- Has raised the quality bar of a product, improving performance, accessibility, usability, and interaction design
- Has strong product and design instincts, with a sharp eye for craft and user experience
- Communicates clearly and collaborates effectively, especially across engineering and design
- Is excited about AI-assisted development workflows, and how design systems can help guide and accelerate AI-generated code
- Experience with our full stack: React, Storybook, and data visualization libraries such as visx, D3, or Chart.js
- Experience building B2B SaaS or highly interactive, data-rich applications
Benefits
- Generous medical, dental, and vision benefits
- Flexible time off
- Monthly credits for professional development, general wellness, Assembled customers, and commuting
- Paid parental leave
- Catered lunches every day (M–F) and fully stocked SF office
- 401(k) plan enrollment
- Stock options are provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position offered
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