Senior Design Engineer

Buffer
Anywhere
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 156,500 - 202,300Function: Design (Product/UX/UI/Visual)Experience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["React","TypeScript","Next.js","Motion","CSS Modules","Animation","Accessibility","Performance","Design Systems","Code Review"]

Senior Design Engineer on Buffer's Marketing team, owning the front-end design system, building performant interactive components, and shaping animations and interactions to elevate buffer.com. You’ll collaborate with marketing, design, and engineering, maintain design system standards, improve accessibility and performance, and contribute to front-end architecture in a fully remote, async environment.

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Buffer
Buffer
5 months ago

Senior Design Engineer

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Job Summary

Senior Design Engineer on Buffer's Marketing team, owning the front-end design system, building performant interactive components, and shaping animations and interactions to elevate buffer.com. You’ll collaborate with marketing, design, and engineering, maintain design system standards, improve accessibility and performance, and contribute to front-end architecture in a fully remote, async environment.
Location: Anywhere
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Design (Product/UX/UI/Visual)
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build polished, interactive web experiences for buffer.com, including product launch pages, brand storytelling, landing pages, and marketing tools.
  • •Bring pages to life with animations and interactions using Motion, CSS animations, or similar approaches.
  • •Evolve and maintain Buffer's design system and component library to improve consistency and enable rapid shipping.
  • •Improve accessibility and performance across buffer.com through ongoing iteration and optimization.
  • •Collaborate with engineers, review code, and share knowledge about front-end architecture, design systems, and accessibility patterns.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 156,500 - 202,300
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •Strong front-end engineer with solid experience in React and TypeScript, and experience with Next.js (App Router a plus)
  • •Proficient in front-end animation (Motion, CSS animations) and working with design systems and component libraries
  • •Experience with SSR/ISR patterns, and Edge functions is a plus
  • •Ability to write and ship high-quality, tested code and contribute to front-end engineering standards
  • •Comfortable working in a remote, async environment and collaborating across marketing, design, and engineering
Experience:5+ yearsSaaSMarketing
Skills:ReactTypeScriptNext.jsMotionCSS ModulesAnimationAccessibilityPerformanceDesign SystemsCode Review
Languages:English
Tech Stack:ReactTypeScriptNext.jsMotionCSS ModulesRadix UIBase UIRechartsExpressSSRISREdge functions

Company Brief

Buffer
Buffer provides a social media management platform to schedule, publish, and analyze posts across multiple social networks, serving individual creators and businesses with publishing, analytics, and team collaboration tools.
Industry: Enterprise Software
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Revenue: USD 10M to 25M
Growth: Established Company
Funding: Series A
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2010
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