Design System Engineer (Staff)

Pilot.com is on a mission to revolutionize the back office for small businesses in America, and they are seeking a Staff Design System Engineer to contribute to this vision. The role involves owning the design system, ensuring alignment between design and engineering, and building scalable UI components to enhance product development.

Responsibilities:

• Ownership of our design system across Figma, Storybook, and production code, and supporting the design team in fast prototyping with AI tools
• Stewardship of Storybook as the source of truth for UI components and usage
• Tight alignment between design intent and shipped UI
• Component quality, consistency, and scalability across the product, and great interfaces that accelerate frontend development
• Expand the design system to support product, marketing, and AI-ready experiences from a single, shared foundation
• Partner daily with product designers to shape components early, not after the fact
• Partner with frontend engineers to ensure components are easy to adopt and extend
• Build and maintain reusable, accessible UI components in Vue
• Translate design system decisions into clean, documented, production-ready components
• Keep Figma, Storybook, and code in sync and actively close gaps
• Evolve the design system to be AI-ready, enabling design to prototype faster

Requirements:

• 7+ years of experience as a software engineer
• Strong frontend skills including modern CSS
• Deep experience working with or owning a design system
• Hands-on experience with Storybook in a production environment
• Strong design sensibility and ability to read and challenge design decisions
• Comfort acting as the bridge between design and engineering
• Experience with vibecoding tools or AI-assisted design and development workflows
• Familiarity with MCP or intent-driven UI concepts is a big plus
• Clear communication and a bias toward practical solutions
• This position is only available for remote employment in the United States in the following states: CA, GA, NY, NC, TN, TX, and WA