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Clipboard Health is a Y Combinator-backed, profitable marketplace that connects healthcare professionals with workplaces across long-term care, home health, hospitals, and beyond. The company has over 1,000 employees and has been profitable since 2022.
You will be the founding Senior Design Engineer for Clipboard's design system, owning the architecture and foundations that serve as the backbone for all product, design, and engineering work. This is a high-impact, high-influence role that closes the gap between design (Figma) and production code.
Key responsibilities include:
- Establish the system's architecture and foundations across Figma and code, from design tokens and primitives through components, patterns, and critical user flows
- Build production-ready, reusable components with full states, interactions, motion, and accessibility
- Keep design and code in sync as the system scales, maintaining alignment across Figma, code, and Storybook
- Define and enforce quality standards for consistency, accessibility, and maintainability
- Create AI tooling and documentation that enables the entire product, design, and engineering organization to prototype and build leveraging the system
- Partner with designers, product managers, and engineers to validate the system against complex workflows and edge cases
- Write comprehensive documentation, usage guidance, and component rules
This role requires strong frontend engineering judgment, deep design-systems expertise, high UI/UX craft, and genuine excitement for the work. You will shape how Clipboard builds products at scale.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 6+ years building production frontend design systems serving multiple product surfaces across mobile and web
- Strong frontend engineering across modern web technologies and component-based architecture
- High UI and UX craft with strong product taste; ability to assess polish, usability, accessibility, flexibility, and maintainability
- Deep experience building and maintaining component libraries, design-token pipelines, Storybook, visual regression, and Figma workflows or plugins
- Strong accessibility fundamentals across mobile and web
- Experience standing up or consolidating design systems and aligning Figma libraries with production code
- Real experience using AI to ship prototypes, components, and system work faster
- Experience building resources (skills, documentation, rules) that enable AI to build against the system correctly
- Strong communication skills; ability to explain decisions to specialists and non-specialists
- Bias for building and iterating from real-world behavior
- Senior judgment to work through ambiguity, prioritize high-leverage work, and sequence change for team adoption
- Portfolio demonstrating shipped design-engineering impact across production UI, component systems, prototypes, and system documentation
NICE TO HAVE:
- Experience with two-sided marketplaces or products where both sides of a transaction depend on each other
- Experience designing for healthcare, operations-heavy, or other high-stakes real-world domains
