Staff Design Engineer, Juniper Square

• 10+ years of experience working across design and front-end engineering, with a portfolio that demonstrates both craft and leadership impact
• Proven experience building and scaling design systems: owning the roadmap, governance, and adoption strategy across a product organization, not just contributing components
• A strong, defensible point of view on what makes a great design system, backed by experience driving adoption across a product organization: not just building it, but getting designers and engineers to actually use it
• Deep front-end engineering skills (TypeScript, React, CSS) alongside genuine design taste. Comfortable reading and writing production code, but leading through judgment rather than throughput
• Experience defining technical strategy for design tooling, developer experience, or design-to-engineering workflows
• Experience thinking through how AI tools change team-level design and engineering workflows, and building systems or processes around that
• Strong communication and influence skills: can align design leadership, engineering leadership, and product around a shared technical direction without formal authority
• Fluency with AI-powered coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code, v0.dev, or equivalent) as part of your core workflow

Desirable

• We are looking for a Staff Design Engineer to join our Design team
• This is a role for someone who has built a design system before, has strong opinions about what makes one great, and wants to do it again at a company where it genuinely matters
• You will help define what design engineering looks like at Juniper Square: the standards, the systems, and the strategy for how design and engineering work together as both the team and the product grow
• This role sits in the Design organization
• You will report to Design leadership and work across Design, Engineering, and Product
• You are not here to execute on someone else's vision
• You set the design system strategy, define how AI integrates into the design-to-engineering workflow, and establish what great UI quality looks like at scale
• This is still a deeply hands-on role
• You will write code, build components, and prototype to prove out directions
• The difference is that your execution sets the example and informs the strategy, rather than being the primary output
• Our product is genuinely complex
• We serve investment managers navigating fund accounting, investor portals, and data-heavy reporting workflows
• Building a design system that holds up against that complexity and gets adopted by the people who need to use it is the challenge
• Making it feel clear, fast, and well-crafted is the job
• AI fluency is a baseline expectation
• You have formed opinions through direct experience on how AI changes team-level design-to-engineering workflows, and you are ready to build the systems and strategy around that
• Own the design system strategy and roadmap: define what the system needs to become, set priorities, establish governance, and build the contribution model that makes it sustainable as the team and product grow
• Define the AI enablement strategy for design-to-engineering: determine how AI tools are integrated into the workflow from prototype to production, and build the systems that make the whole team faster and higher-quality
• Set the technical direction for UI quality across the product: define what good looks like, establish the standards and processes that maintain it, and make the case for that standard across design and engineering leadership
• Identify systemic quality gaps: look across the product surface and name the patterns no one else is naming, then build the plan to address them
• Build the infrastructure that lets designers ship in code: not by doing it yourself, but by creating the workflows, tooling, and templates that make it a sustainable part of the design team's practice
• Partner with Design and Engineering leadership to shape the long-term direction of how the two functions collaborate, where the boundaries are, and how they evolve