Senior Design Engineer II

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Immerse yourself in Kit's product surfaces and current component landscape.
• - Audit the current UI for patterns, tokens, and inconsistencies.
• - Establish tokens and primitives mapped between Figma and code in partnership with the front-end engineering team.
• - Lead the development of 5-8 core components at production quality with full documentation.
• - Create a stable, predictable design-to-code workflow that feature squads rely on.

Required Skills

• - Strong visual design craft: typography, layout, spacing, color, and hierarchy
• - Strong React/Typescript fundamentals and component architecture
• - Design token architecture and Figma-to-code mapping
• - Building and maintaining Storybook for component development
• - Deep understanding of interaction design, states, and edge cases
• - The ability to spot and resolve visual and interaction inconsistencies across a product surface

Benefits

• - Profit Sharing
• - Kit equity
• - 401k with a 5% match
• - Health Insurance plans through Aetna
• - $2,000 equipment allowance for your first two years
• - Individual learning + development budget ($3,500/year)
• - Gender affirming benefits
• - Childcare benefit up to $3,000 annually
• - Twenty (20) days of paid time off during each year of employment
• - Paid paid vacation: An after-tax bonus of $1,000 for taking five consecutive days of vacation
• - Two weeks of paid sick time each year
• - Twelve (12) weeks paid parental leave
• - Up to six weeks of paid bereavement leave
• - Four-week, paid sabbatical after five years with the team