Senior Design Engineer

Loancrate is a remote company that builds AI-native tooling to automate mortgage workflows. We are looking for a Senior Design Engineer who can own the end-to-end design process for features, build and maintain a design system, and write production-quality React components. The ideal candidate will have a portfolio showing high-craft visual/interaction design in complex B2B/SaaS, production React + TypeScript proficiency, and experience building design systems with component libraries and variant APIs.

Requirements

• Designing and building core UI components for AI-powered mortgage workflow tools
• Establishing and maintaining a component library and design system
• Partnering with product and engineering to translate complex workflow requirements into intuitive user experiences
• Writing production-quality React components in TypeScript
• Defining design standards, patterns, and guidelines that scale as the team grows
• Building and maintaining a design system and component library
• Collaborating with PMs and engineers during discovery to ensure designs are user-centered and technically feasible
• Defining and enforcing visual and interaction design standards; auditing and driving consistency across the product
• Maintaining Figma libraries, component documentation, and design-to-code handoff tooling
• Partnering with engineering to ensure design system components are implemented correctly and consistently across the codebase
• Designing for accessibility (WCAG compliance) and advocating for inclusive design practices
• Developing and documenting UX patterns for complex interaction paradigms (multi-step workflows, AI-generated content, data-dense tables)
• Contribute to product strategy discussions and motion/microinteraction guidelines
• Audit existing UI for consistency and drive improvements
• Scope design work and make pragmatic tradeoffs between design quality and delivery velocity
• Help establish and document our design principles and visual identity
• Mentor team members on design thinking, UI best practices, and frontend implementation

Benefits

• Robust medical coverage
• Vision & dental coverage
• 401(k) plan offering
• Flexible time off
• Equal opportunity employer
• Remote-first culture