Senior UX Engineer, Design Systems at Greenhouse

**Who this is for** This role is designed for a seasoned Senior UX Engineer who is passionate about building and scaling design systems. If you're an experience

Work type: remote

Location: Anywhere in the United States

Salary: $128,300 – $166,900/yr

Type: Full-time

Summary

**Who this is for** This role is designed for a seasoned Senior UX Engineer who is passionate about building and scaling design systems. If you're an experience-first engineer and a system-minded builder who sees the potential of AI-powered tooling and thrives in a cross-functional partnership between design and engineering, this is an exciting opportunity to define the future of product development at Greenhouse. **Key highlights** Greenhouse is looking for a Senior UX Engineer to join their central Design System team, acting as the crucial link between design intent and production code. This role will convert fragmented UI work into reusable, production-grade system capabilities, serving all product teams and contributing to the AI-powered future of product design and delivery. **You might be a good fit if you...** - Have 5+ years of front-end or UX engineering experience with strong component architecture skills, ideally in React + TypeScript. - Possess working knowledge of AI development tools for code generation and a solid understanding of accessibility best practices (WCAG). - Are fluent in working with design tokens, layout systems, and interaction states, with a documentation-first approach. - Have demonstrated experience shipping design systems work at another organization and champion adoption across product teams.

Job Description

Our [mission](https://www.greenhouse.com/mission) at Greenhouse is to make every company great at hiring – so we go to great lengths to hire great people because we believe that they’re the foundation of our success. At Greenhouse, you’ll join a team that collaborates purposefully, fosters inclusivity, and communicates with transparency and accountability so we can help companies measurably improve the way they hire.

Join us to do the best work of your career, solving meaningful problems with remarkable teams.

Greenhouse is looking for a Senior UX Engineer, Design Systems to join our central Design System team – Greenhouse's centralized experience and delivery enablement team for the product organization.

Reporting to the Staff Designer & Manager, Design Systems, you'll be the missing implementation layer between design intent and production code. This is a first-of-its-kind role at Greenhouse, built to close a growing structural gap and help define the AI-powered future of how we design, build, and ship product. You'll serve all of our triad feature teams (Product, Design, Engineering) as shared infrastructure. Converting fragmented, one-off UI work into reusable, production-grade system capabilities that compound in value with every team that ships.

## Who will love this job

A design evangelist – you believe using the design system should be the easy path and the right path, and you're energized to make that true across the entire organization

A system-minded builder – you see every one-off UI request as an opportunity to build something reusable that makes the next request faster

A forward thinker – you track where AI-powered design tooling is heading, not just what it can do today, and you position your work on that slope

An experience-first engineer – you start from the ideal workflow and work backwards to the technology, not the other way around

A cross-functional partner – you thrive in the space between design and engineering, co-owning decisions rather than just receiving handoffs

A code-first problem-solver – you believe the fastest path from concept to shipping is live, working code, not another round of mockups

## What you'll do

Build and maintain production-grade components and patterns across core workflows, with accessibility and interaction fidelity built in from the start

Own a single documentation source of truth for Design and Engineering, with clear APIs, variants, and working examples teams can use without asking

Set contribution standards and guardrails that keep the design system the obvious default across Greenhouse's product teams

Partner with engineering to deliver implementation-ready patterns, reducing handoff loops and bespoke UI across feature teams

Champion design systems adoption across the organization and elevate the product through motion, interaction design, and refined brand moments

## You should have

5+ years of front-end engineering, UX engineering, or related field experience in a modern component framework, with strong component architecture skills. React + TypeScript strongly preferred.

Working knowledge of AI development tools (Claude, MCP, Code Sandbox, or similar) for code-ready output generation

Solid understanding of accessibility best practices (WCAG) and state modeling, demonstrated in shipped work

Fluency working with design tokens, layout systems, and interaction states, with a genuine interest in visual and interaction design

A documentation-first approach: teams should be able to self-serve from what you write

Demonstrated experience shipping design systems work at another organization. Field-tested knowledge, not just theoretical familiarity.

Storybook (or similar) component documentation and showcase workflow experience, a plus

Visual regression testing and CI quality gate experience, a plus

Design token pipeline experience and tooling, a plus

Your own rare talents — if you don't meet 100% of the qualifications, tell us why you'd be an excellent fit for this role in your cover letter.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.If you are based in California, we encourage you to read this important information for California residents linked[ here](https://www.greenhouse.io/ccpa-candidate).The national pay range for this role is $128,300 - $166,900. Individual compensation will be commensurate with the candidate's experience and qualifications. Certain roles may be eligible for additional compensation, including stock option awards, bonuses, and merit increases. Additionally, certain roles have the opportunity to receive sales commissions that are based on the terms of the sales commission plan applicable to the role.

Greenhouse provides a variety of benefits to employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, basic life insurance, mental health resources, financial wellness benefits, and a fully paid parental leave program. For US-based employees, we offer short-term and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan and company match. U.S. based employees also receive, per calendar year, up to 14 scheduled paid holidays and up to 80 hours of paid sick leave. Non-exempt employees accrue up to 20-25 days of paid vacation time annually, depending on tenure, and exempt employees have flexible paid time off (PTO).

The anticipated closing date for this role is May 15, 2026.

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## Who we are

At Greenhouse, we live by our mission through [using our own product](https://www.greenhouse.com/interviewing-at-greenhouse) to help us hire the right person for the job, every time. We are a remote-first company and have shared office spaces in New York City and Ireland, and optional co-working spaces that give us flexibility to do our best work anywhere. We take an active role in our growth through a performance review program that’s committed to providing actionable feedback, and a bonus structure that rewards great performance. We believe that bringing together a variety of perspectives makes us a stronger company – and we nurture leaders who create an inclusive culture and invest into employee resource groups that celebrate our differences and life experiences. We’re proud to have built an [award-winning culture](https://www.greenhouse.com/awards) that’s been recognized as Fortune’s Best Places to Work and Inc.’s Best Workplaces multiple years in a row.

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