**Who this is for** — PermitFlow is hiring a Design System Engineer to be the technical lead for their component library. This position is perfect for an experi
Work type: hybrid
Location: New York City, NY
Salary: $135,000 – $250,000/yr
Type: Full-time
**Who this is for** — PermitFlow is hiring a Design System Engineer to be the technical lead for their component library. This position is perfect for an experienced engineer who thrives at the intersection of design and development and is passionate about creating consistent, high-quality user interfaces. **Key highlights** — You will own the development and evolution of PermitFlow's React component library, ensuring consistency, accessibility, and robust documentation. This role involves defining standards, managing the library's roadmap, and collaborating with designers and other engineers to drive adoption and maintain quality. **You might be a good fit if you...** - Have strong fundamentals in React and TypeScript, with a component-centric approach. - Possess demonstrated experience building and maintaining a production design system or component library. - Have a keen eye for visual and interaction design. - Are comfortable leading cross-team working groups and setting technical standards.
PermitFlow is redefining how America builds. We’re an applied AI company serving the nation’s builders, tackling one of the largest information challenges in the economy: understanding what can be built, where, and how. Our AI agent workforce helps the fastest-growing construction companies navigate everything from permitting and licensing to inspections and project closeouts – accelerating housing, clean-energy, and infrastructure development across the country.
Despite being a $1.6T industry, construction still suffers from massive delays, wasted capital, and lost opportunity. PermitFlow has already delivered unprecedented speed, accuracy, and visibility to over $20B in development, helping contractors reduce compliance time, de-risk projects, and scale with confidence.
As the U.S. enters a new capex supercycle across data centers, factories, housing, and renewables, joining PermitFlow means building the AI infrastructure at the core of every construction project driving the next wave of reindustrialization.
We’ve raised over $90M, most recently completing our [Series B,](https://www.permitflow.com/blog/permitflow-series-b) from top-tier investors including Accel, [Kleiner Perkins](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7401703305569275904/), Initialized, Y Combinator, Felicis, and Altos Ventures, with backing from leaders at OpenAI, Google, Procore, ServiceTitan, Zillow, PlanGrid, and Uber.
Our HQ is in New York City with a hybrid schedule (3 in-office days per week). We prefer NYC-based candidates or those open to relocation.
# Role Overview
As a Design System Engineer, you’ll be the technical steward of the component library that every product engineer at PermitFlow builds on top of. You'll work at the intersection of design and engineering, partnering closely with our designers to define and ship the atoms, molecules, and organisms that keep our product consistent, fast to build, and delightful to use.
This isn't a supporting role. You'll set the standards, own the roadmap, review PRs into the library, and be the go-to person when teams hit the edges of what our design system supports. You'll also lead the federated model we've established — working with team champions across our product squads to drive adoption, surface gaps, and maintain quality across a fast-moving codebase.
# What You'll Do