Sr. Design Systems Engineer, Labs

About Us

Higharc is a VC-backed startup that is changing how new homes are designed and built. Join a founding team who’ve shipped products for Autodesk, Electronic Arts, Nike, and Apple. We have raised a total of $83M with support from top-notch venture capital firms and more than 18 strategic investors—industry leaders in construction, building products manufacturing, and distribution.

We are hiring a Senior Design Systems Engineer as a foundational member of Higharc Labs. This is a role for an entrepreneurial frontend engineer with deep design systems expertise and product taste. You will build the component foundations and experimentation tooling that make 0-to-1 delivery fast, testable, and repeatable, while maintaining a high bar for UX quality and implementation craft.

What You'll Do

You will work across product, design, ML, and engineering to identify the right bets, build production-safe prototypes, validate with users, and either hand off successful, product-ready betas or sunset with shared learnings. Expect to:

• Build and evolve a design system and component library that scales across rapid experiments without sacrificing consistency, accessibility, or UX quality

• Shape frontend architecture patterns that enable AI-assisted development workflows while keeping interfaces reliable, understandable, and easy to iterate

• Build right-sized product UX for Labs experiments - from problem exploration and wireframing through rapid prototypes to high-quality beta-ready workflows

• Partner deeply with design to translate foundational design principles into codified visual language, interaction patterns, and UX guardrails in reusable primitives and documented standards

• Build and own a repeatable experimentation framework (process + tooling) that supports fast prototyping, user feedback loops, and meaningful participation from org-wide contributors

• Define graduation criteria for product bets: interface contracts, accessibility baselines, analytics hooks, known limitations, and transition plans

• Talk directly with users and internal stakeholders to refine problem framing and validate assumptions early

About You

You are excited to have unusual autonomy and greenfield scope in a company with real revenue and customers. You thrive in ambiguity, don't mind that some experiments get killed, and are energized by the challenge of building something new inside an established organization. If that sounds like a feature and not a bug, let's go!

You have:

• 7+ years experience shipping customer-facing web products, with significant depth owning design systems or component libraries at scale

• Strong React and TypeScript skills; comfort owning complex frontend architecture decisions

• A track record of building functional, tasteful UI with high craft standards, simplifying complex workflows, and articulating why interaction choices work

• Experience building tools, templates, or frameworks that accelerate other people’s work, including non-engineering collaborators

• Ability and interest in shaping codebases for emerging AI workflows

• Ownership of ambiguous, high-impact problems from concept through deployment and iteration

• Product engineering instincts: you can define problems, simplify scope, and prioritize what creates measurable value

• Clear written and verbal communication in a remote, async environment

• A builder mentality and bias to action; you are self-directed and learn quickly in new domains

A major plus if you also bring:

• Experience as a technical founder or early engineer at a high-growth SaaS company

• Experience with AI/LLM-assisted product development workflows for frontend teams

• Familiarity with 3D interfaces, WebGL/Three.js, or creative tooling workflows

While we've identified the core experience and skills required above, please still apply if you have more or different experience than this! We will use your previous experience and performance across the series of interviews to establish appropriate level within our organization in a fair and equitable way.

Working at Higharc

Higharc has been remote first since our founding in 2018. We offer flexible hours so you can do your best work without missing out on life. Higharc offers competitive salaries with significant equity, in a fast-growing, well-funded company.

Personal healthiness is an important value for us- we provide comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with unlimited PTO, and meaningful maternity/paternity leave to all U.S based employees that are full-time. You'll also have access to other big-company benefits such like short and long-term disability plans and a 401K. Haven't worked remotely before? We provide a stipend to create the ideal home office.