Staff Systems Design Engineer (Remote)
Overview:
As a Staff Systems Design Engineer, you will lead the evolution of Weedmaps' design system as a scalable, production-grade product. This role unifies design and code at the intersection of Design, Engineering, and AI tooling to build, operationalize, and scale the system across all UI surfaces. The system must accelerate development, maintain high standards for craft and usability, align with engineering architecture, and enable consistent, app-wide changes. Success requires deep collaboration with Engineering (CI/CD, tokens, tooling), Creative (brand cohesion, evolution), and Product Design (development, iteration) to ensure system adoption and power the product experience.
The impact you'll make:
- Define and evolve the multi-platform system (web + mobile) with clear architecture, governance, and scalability principles.
- Own the roadmap and prioritization based on product needs, adoption gaps, and system performance.
- Partner with Design and Creative leadership to ensure high craft, modern interaction patterns, and resilience to ongoing brand evolution.
- Design and implement core system components, defining intuitive, flexible, and scalable APIs, variants, and composition patterns.
- Ensure high standards for visual precision, fidelity, accessibility (React Aria), and interaction quality, motion, and state management.
- Continuously refine components based on product usage and edge cases.
- Implement automated quality systems, including visual regression testing, and continuously audit the system for usability and craft excellence. Act as a cross-functional steward of system quality.
- Lead migration of legacy UI and ensure critical product surfaces (e.g., CTAs, checkout flows) are powered by the system, actively increasing adoption across the ecosystem.
- Improve Developer Experience (DX) by creating intuitive, well-structured component APIs that balance flexibility and simplicity.
- Establish a best-in-class tool-to-code pipeline (Figma, Claude, Builder, etc.) to map design artifacts to production components and prevent drift.
- Partner with Engineering on architectural decisions (CI/CD, token systems, distribution infrastructure) and support enforcement mechanisms (linting, token constraints) to maintain system integrity.
- Introduce and standardize AI-assisted workflows, structuring components for AI-friendly generation and integrating tools (Builder.io, Gemini, etc.) to improve consistency.
- Mentor designers and engineers and create documentation that allows teams to move quickly within a well-governed system.
- Identify strategic innovation opportunities, prototype new interaction models/motion systems, and codify successful innovations into the design system.
What you've accomplished:
- 7+ years in front-end, design, or creative engineering, with strong mobile focus (iOS/Android).
- Proven track record building and scaling design systems and component libraries across multiple teams/products.
- Expertise in React (Web) and React Native, and modern front-end architecture.
- Demonstrated ability to design intuitive component APIs and developer-friendly systems.
- Deep understanding of design craft (typography, motion, interaction, visual systems).
- Experience driving adoption of shared systems and implementing design-to-code pipelines (tokens, Figma integration).
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools and workflows.
- Strong systems thinking and ability to align Design, Engineering, and Creative stakeholders.
Bonus points:
- Experience working on marketplace, e-commerce, or consumer platforms.
- Familiarity with Storybook, visual regression tools, and token management systems.
- Experience translating brand systems into scalable product UI.
- Exposure to AI-native development environments and workflows.
- Passion for building systems that balance craft, scalability, and speed.
The base pay range for this position is $200,000 - $220,317 per year
2026 US Benefits for Full Time, Regular Employees:
- Physical Health (Medical, Dental & Vision)
- 100% employer-paid premium for employees
- Up to 80% coverage for dependents
- Company HSA contribution with the High Deductible Health Plan
- 401(k) Retirement Plan (employer will match contribution up to 3.5% of employee contribution)
- Basic Life, Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance options
- Supplemental, voluntary benefits
- Student Loan Repayment/529 Education Savings with a monthly company contribution
- FSA (Medical, Dependent, Transit and Parking)
- Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance
- Critical Illness Insurance
- Accident Insurance
- Short- and Long-term Disability Insurance
- Pet Insurance
- Identity theft protection
- Legal access to a network of attorneys
- PTO, paid sick leave, and company holidays (including a 2026 holiday shutdown)
- Paid parental leave
Why Work at Weedmaps?
Life at Weedmaps means innovation and heart. Come join us if you care about the plant, the people who love it, and are ready to let your talent shine. We foster a bustling and collaborative culture that revolves around an environment that focuses on the benefits of weed, and the community that supports it.
You too can have a hand in shaping the industry’s future; ready to roll with us?
See how we’ve grown—our journey, leadership team, and what’s next at Weedmaps.com/corporate
About Weedmaps:
Founded in 2008, we’ve grown from a small startup to a global leader in the cannabis industry. Our dedication to transparency, education, and community has set us apart, and today, we proudly serve cannabis to consumers and businesses in the U.S. and worldwide.
“Freedom to choose. Freedom to access. Freedom to enjoy.”
Notice to prospective Weedmaps job applicants:
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- Our recruiters will NEVER ask for or attempt to solicit payment from applicants in order to apply, interview, or work for Weedmaps.
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If you are unsure if a communication is legitimate, please contact our recruitment team at [email protected] and they will happily confirm for you. Thank you for your vigilance and we appreciate your interest in working with us!
Weedmaps is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. The Company prohibits unlawful discrimination against employees or applicants based on race (including traits historically associated with race, such as hair texture and protective hairstyles), religion and religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, military status, veteran status, uniformed service member status, sexual orientation, transgender identity, citizenship status, pregnancy, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws. The Company also prohibits unlawful discrimination based on the perception that anyone has any of those characteristics, or is associated with a person who has or is perceived as having any of those characteristics. Our company uses E-Verify to confirm the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, please visit www.dhs.gov/E-Verify.
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Weedmaps Irvine, California, USA Office
41 Discovery, Irvine, CA, United States
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