Senior Design Engineer

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Build polished, interactive web experiences for buffer.com - product launch pages, brand storytelling, landing pages, and marketing tools - in close collaboration with Kate (UX Design) and the wider marketing team.
• - Bring pages to life with thoughtful animations and interactions using Motion, CSS animations, or whatever approach fits.
• - Evolve and maintain Buffer's design system and component library - improving consistency, filling gaps, and refining patterns so the whole team can ship high-quality pages without starting from scratch each time.
• - Improve accessibility and performance across buffer.com through ongoing iteration - auditing what's there, fixing what needs fixing, and raising the standards over time so every visitor has a great experience.
• - Help shape how we work by pairing with engineers, reviewing code, and sharing what you know about front-end architecture, design systems, and accessibility patterns.

Required Skills

• - Strong front-end engineer with solid experience in React and TypeScript.
• - Hands-on experience with front-end animation - whether through Motion, CSS animations, or your own creative approach.
• - Experience with design systems and component libraries.
• - Care about the details that make a web experience feel right: accessibility, performance, clean code, thoughtful trade-offs.
• - Think like a designer, not just an engineer, with a strong sense of visual hierarchy, spacing, typography, and how users move through a page.
• - Comfortable navigating ambiguity and thinking in systems.

Benefits

• - Competitive salary
• - Work remotely
• - 4-Day workweeks
• - Health insurance
• - Home office setup
• - Growth mindset fund
• - New laptop every 3 years
• - Unlimited free books
• - AI tools stipend
• - Flexible time off
• - Savings plan with 3% company match
• - Profit sharing
• - 16 weeks of family leave for all parents, fully paid
• - Family support fund
• - Working smarter stipend
• - Sabbaticals after every 5 years