Senior Design Engineer

About the role

Buffer is looking for a Senior Design Engineer to join the Marketing team and own the front-end design system that defines how our brand appears on the web. In this role, you will craft the interactions, animations, and polished UI that make buffer.com feel modern and engaging for small businesses and creators. You will translate high-level brand designs into performant, accessible components that power landing pages, product launches, and marketing tools. This is a rare opportunity to be the primary engineer shaping the look and feel of our customer-facing web presence. You will work autonomously while coordinating closely with designers, marketers, and engineers to ensure consistency and quality. Your work will directly influence how millions of visitors perceive Buffer and the solutions we offer. By joining this role, you will help scale our recent brand redesign into a robust and future-ready marketing platform.

Key facts

What you'll do

• Build polished, interactive web experiences for buffer.com, including product launch pages, brand storytelling flows, landing pages, and marketing tools, in close collaboration with Kate Baldrey and the wider marketing team.
• Bring pages to life with thoughtful animations and interactions using Motion, CSS animations, or other suitable approaches to ensure buffer.com feels as good as our product.
• Evolve and maintain Buffer's design system and component library, improving consistency, filling gaps, and refining patterns so the whole team can ship high-quality pages without starting from scratch each time.
• Improve accessibility and performance across buffer.com through ongoing iteration, auditing what exists, fixing issues, and raising standards over time so every visitor has a great experience.
• Help shape our working methods by pairing with engineers and stakeholders to turn ideas into production-ready patterns that align with brand and product goals.
• Write and ship high-quality, tested code that meets Buffer's quality standards and contributes to front-end engineering best practices.
• Collaborate with marketing leadership, our UX designer, and customer advocates to understand visitor needs and determine the best solutions for key marketing flows.
• Contribute to front-end standards and documentation that raise consistency and quality across our marketing codebases and support long-term maintainability.

Requirements

You must have 3-5 years of experience building user interfaces for the web and working remotely while participating in periodic in-person gatherings. You must understand accessibility principles and performance optimization for web interfaces and be comfortable applying them in production. You must be comfortable working with Figma designs and translating them into clean, maintainable code without sacrificing detail or brand integrity. You must write and ship tested code that meets Buffer's quality standards and adheres to established engineering practices. You must be able to collaborate effectively with cross-functional stakeholders and contribute positively to a transparent, values-driven work environment. You must be proactive in identifying opportunities for improvement and willing to experiment with new tools and techniques to enhance the user experience. Joining Buffer means embracing a "No Ego Doer" mindset and being willing to test and confirm ideas through collaboration.

Nice to have

Experience contributing to open source projects relevant to design systems or marketing sites.

Practical notes

We schedule gatherings to work together in person periodically, and these gatherings are highly encouraged to build deeper connections among our small team.

Buffer operates as a fully distributed team, and this role is fully remote with no requirement for relocation. The engagement for this role is full-time, and applicants should be prepared to work within Buffer's global time zones to support collaboration. There is no specified compensation range listed for this position on this page. Buffer encourages transparency, and team members are able to review company metrics, successes, and challenges through our internal Transparency Dashboard. Applicants should be ready to participate in recurring in-person gatherings, as these sessions are scheduled to strengthen team cohesion and culture. The role involves close partnership with marketing, UX, and growth teams, making communication skills and a collaborative mindset essential. This position reports to Kateryna Porshnieva, Head of Engineering Operations, and works alongside Simon Heaton, Director of Growth Marketing, and Hailley Griffis, Head of Communications and Content. Day-to-day collaboration will be frequent with Kate Baldrey, Marketing UX Designer, to ensure that designs are executed accurately and meet user needs. The successful candidate will help Buffer continue serving small businesses and creators with tools that enable them to launch and grow their online presence.