Staff Systems Design Engineer (Hybrid)

Staff Systems Design Engineer (Hybrid - 2 to 3 days onsite per week)

Overview:

As a Staff Systems Design Engineer you will lead the evolution of Weedmaps design system as a scalable production-grade product. This role unifies design and code at the intersection of Design Engineering and AI tooling to build operationalize and scale the system across all UI surfaces. The system must accelerate development maintain high standards for craft and usability align with engineering architecture and enable consistent app-wide changes. Success requires deep collaboration with Engineering (CI/CD tokens tooling) Creative (brand cohesion evolution) and Product Design (development iteration) to ensure system adoption and power the product experience.

The impact youll make:

• Define and evolve the multi-platform system (web mobile) with clear architecture governance and scalability principles.
• Own the roadmap and prioritization based on product needs adoption gaps and system performance.
• Partner with Design and Creative leadership to ensure high craft modern interaction patterns and resilience to ongoing brand evolution.
• Design and implement core system components defining intuitive flexible and scalable APIs variants and composition patterns.
• Ensure high standards for visual precision fidelity accessibility (React Aria) and interaction quality motion and state management.
• Continuously refine components based on product usage and edge cases.
• Implement automated quality systems including visual regression testing and continuously audit the system for usability and craft excellence. Act as a cross-functional steward of system quality.
• Lead migration of legacy UI and ensure critical product surfaces (e.g. CTAs checkout flows) are powered by the system actively increasing adoption across the ecosystem.
• Improve Developer Experience (DX) by creating intuitive well-structured component APIs that balance flexibility and simplicity.
• Establish a best-in-class tool-to-code pipeline (Figma Claude Builder etc.) to map design artifacts to production components and prevent drift.
• Partner with Engineering on architectural decisions (CI/CD token systems distribution infrastructure) and support enforcement mechanisms (linting token constraints) to maintain system integrity.
• Introduce and standardize AI-assisted workflows structuring components for AI-friendly generation and integrating tools ( Gemini etc.) to improve consistency.
• Mentor designers and engineers and create documentation that allows teams to move quickly within a well-governed system.
• Identify strategic innovation opportunities prototype new interaction models/motion systems and codify successful innovations into the design system.

What youve accomplished:

• 7 years in front-end design or creative engineering with strong mobile focus (iOS/Android).
• Proven track record building and scaling design systems and component libraries across multiple teams/products.
• Expertise in React (Web) and React Native and modern front-end architecture.
• Demonstrated ability to design intuitive component APIs and developer-friendly systems.
• Deep understanding of design craft (typography motion interaction visual systems).
• Experience driving adoption of shared systems and implementing design-to-code pipelines (tokens Figma integration).
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools and workflows.
• Strong systems thinking and ability to align Design Engineering and Creative stakeholders.

Bonus points:

• Experience working on marketplace e-commerce or consumer platforms.
• Familiarity with Storybook visual regression tools and token management systems.
• Experience translating brand systems into scalable product UI.
• Exposure to AI-native development environments and workflows.
• Passion for building systems that balance craft scalability and speed.

The base pay range for this position is $186251 - $208959 per year

2026 US Benefits for Full Time Regular Employees:

• Physical Health (Medical Dental & Vision)
• 100% employer-paid premium for employees
• Up to 80% coverage for dependents
• Company HSA contribution with the High Deductible Health Plan
• 401(k) Retirement Plan (employer will match contribution up to 3.5% of employee contribution)
• Basic Life Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance options
• Supplemental voluntary benefits
• Student Loan Repayment/529 Education Savings with a monthly company contribution
• FSA (Medical Dependent Transit and Parking)
• Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance
• Critical Illness Insurance
• Accident Insurance
• Short- and Long-term Disability Insurance
• Pet Insurance
• Identity theft protection
• Legal access to a network of attorneys
• PTO paid sick leave and company holidays (including a 2026 holiday shutdown)
• Paid parental leave

Why Work at Weedmaps

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See how weve grownour journey leadership team and whats next at Weedmaps:

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