Design Engineer Design System

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Process: https://hexhq.notion.site/Hex-s-Design-Engineer-Interview-Process-30a45d6bfe7c80488201e66329605316

TeamPage: https://hexhq.notion.site/Design-Hex-21a4d4a08e23457faad1378455e18ac0

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Hex is looking for a thoughtful systems-minded Design Engineer to lead and own the next evolution of our product design system (named Spellbook). This role sits within the Design org and partners closely with Product Engineering to build a cohesive scalable and high-quality UI foundation.

You will architect implement and maintain the primitives that power Hex’s product. This includes components tokens documentation accessibility standards and advanced interaction patterns. You’ll work closely with designers and engineers to ensure our product experience is crafted with care consistency and long-term maintainability in mind.

• Own and lead the design system. Define the roadmap establish component standards improve system ergonomics and shepherd contributions across teams. You’ll be the point person for how our atoms and molecules get built.
• Build for scale and quality. Translate design patterns into robust accessible components. Develop and maintain tokens documentation and tooling to ensure adoption and ease of use.
• Raise the bar through collaboration. Partner deeply with designers and engineers to improve UI quality visual polish and cross-product consistency. This includes advocating educating and teaching across the org on best practices.
• Prototype and explore. Create prototypes that demonstrate advanced interactions help validate UX patterns and influence product direction.

You would be a great fit if you have:

• 7+ years of experience in front-end engineering or design engineering ideally on a product or design system team
• A strong eye for design with deep care for layout motion affordances and visual polish
• Expertise in modern front-end technologies especially Typescript React component-driven architectures and accessibility best practices
• Experience building or maintaining design systems tokens components documentation governance models
• A portfolio showing UI engineering craft component thinking and prototyping ability
• A systems mindset: you think in primitives and abstractions not one-off solutions
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to articulate rationale and influence cross-functionally
• A collaborative open-minded approach and comfort working with partners across levels
• Strong attention to detail and a commitment to quality without losing momentum
• Bonus: experience going deep on major and minor frontend performance problems

What We Do

Hex is changing the way people work with data. Our platform makes analytics workflows more powerful collaborative and shareable. Hex solves key pain points with today's data and analytics tooling and is loved by thousands of users all over the world for the beautiful UI new superpowers and boundless flexibility. We are a tight-knit crew of engineers designers and data aficionados. Our roadmap is full of big ideas and little details and we would love your help bringing them to life. Hex has raised over $100m from great VCs and angels giving us many years of runway and the ability to pay competitive salaries offer great benefits and provide meaningful equity.

Why Work With Us

We’re a team of builders. We spend our days designing and developing beautiful products growing and supporting our user base and helping each other succeed and learn. To do that we've developed a culture focused on quality craft and speed -- with very few meetings bias toward action and taking care of each other through feedback and support.

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