This role sits within Whatnot's Design Systems team, building the Whatnot Design System (WDS) that lets one product ship coherently across iOS, Android, and web. The team is mid-way through WDS 2.0, a rebuild of tokens, components, and the Figma-to-production pipeline. The engineer owns components, tokens, and designer-engineer tooling.
What you'll do
- Build and evolve WDS components across iOS, Android, and web
- Own and extend design token architecture and the Figma-to-codebase pipeline
- Partner daily with product designers on specs, APIs, and tooling
- Raise the bar on accessibility, dark mode, RTL, testing, telemetry, and AI-assisted workflows
What we're looking for
- 5+ years software engineering experience building user-facing products
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent work experience
- Shipped production UI on at least two of iOS, Android, web
- Hands-on experience building or maintaining a design system
- Track record of cross-functional collaboration with designers
- Care for accessibility, theming, dark mode, i18n/RTL, testing, documentation
Nice to have
- Built Figma plugins or design-to-code tooling
- Worked with documentation platforms like Supernova or Storybook
- Used AI agents to accelerate component and token migrations
Good to know
- Must live within commuting distance of San Francisco or New York hub
- Flexibility to work from home or from a global office hub