Design System Engineer

New York City, United StatesHybrid

Responsibilities

WHAT YOU'LL DO - Own the day-to-day development and evolution of PermitFlow's React component library - Build and maintain components across all levels of the Atomic Design hierarchy — atoms, molecules, organisms, and templates — ensuring each is robust, accessible, and documented in Storybook - Define and enforce component standards: API contracts, design token usage, prop interfaces, and variant patterns - Review PRs into the component library, maintaining quality bar and ensuring consistency - Partner

We’re an applied AI company serving the nation’s builders, tackling one of the largest information challenges in the economy: understanding what can be built, where, and how.
Our AI agent workforce helps the fastest-growing construction companies navigate everything from permitting and licensing to inspections and project closeouts – accelerating housing, clean-energy, and infrastructure development across the country.
As the U.S. enters a new capex supercycle across data centers, factories, housing, and renewables, joining PermitFlow means building the AI infrastructure at the core of every construction project driving the next wave of reindustrialization.
You'll set the standards, own the roadmap, review PRs into the library, and be the go-to person when teams hit the edges of what our design system supports.
experience building and maintaining a production design system or component library, not just consuming one — a portfolio, GitHub profile, or Storybook instance you can share carries more weight than a resume line - A sharp eye for visual and interaction design — you notice when something is off and can articulate why clearly -
Experience working in close partnership with product designers: giving and receiving feedback on specs, negotiating tradeoffs, and aligning on the right abstraction before something gets built - Familiarity with design tooling (Figma) and developer
Experience with Tailwind CSS is a strong plus -

PermitFlow has already delivered unprecedented speed, accuracy, and visibility to over $20B in development, helping contractors reduce compliance time, de-risk projects, and scale with confidence.