buffer - Senior Design Engineer
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Requirements
• We'd love to see examples of your work - whether that's a portfolio, a personal site, open source contributions, or anything else that shows how you think about interaction quality, visual detail, and front-end craft. We're especially interested in animation work, component systems, or projects where you owned the implementation. • You're a strong front-end engineer with solid experience in React and TypeScript. Our site runs on Next.js, but we care more about your depth of understanding and willingness to learn than matching our exact stack. Experience with Next.js App Router, SSR/ISR patterns, or Edge functions is a plus. • You care about the details that make a web experience feel right: accessibility, performance, clean code, thoughtful trade-offs. You also know when something is good enough to ship and learn from. • You think like a designer, not just an engineer. You have a strong sense of visual hierarchy, spacing, typography, and how users move through a page. You notice when something is technically correct but doesn't feel right - and you have opinions about how to fix it. You don't need a pixel-perfect spec for every state; you can make good UX decisions in code because you understand the intent behind the design. • You're comfortable navigating ambiguity and thinking in systems — you bring clarity and ask good questions to move ideas forward even when requirements aren't fully defined. You look at the full system, understanding how different technologies and goals connect, and build things that can scale and improve holistically. • You thrive in remote, async environments — you communicate clearly, support your teammates, and don't wait for permission to make progress. You work effectively across marketing, design, and engineering, and can explain technical decisions to non-technical stakeholders. • You've likely been doing this for at least 5+ years, but depth of experience and impact matter more than a specific number of years. • We use Next.js v15+ with React and TypeScript for buffer.com http://buffer.com (currently using Pages router, planning to migrate to App router). We use Express middleware for some routing (planning to migrate to Next.js middleware). • Styling with CSS Modules and Motion for animations, and use Radix UI and Base UI for accessible components (gradually migrating to Base UI as it evolves) and data visualisations using Recharts. • Our marketing technology stack includes Segment, Google Tag Manager, Mixpanel, and BigQuery for tracking and analytics. • We pull content and data from Ghost CMS (blog), Redash, Notion, Google Sheets, and various external APIs. • By submitting the application, you consent to Buffer collecting and processing your personal data for recruiting purposes, find more details in our Privacy Policy https://buffer.notion.site/Privacy-Policy-for-Applicants-230a7f5a00fd80e48478f09171d18a24?pvs=143.
Responsibilities
• Build polished, interactive web experiences for buffer.com http://buffer.com - product launch pages, brand storytelling, landing pages, and marketing tools - in close collaboration with Kate (UX Design) and the wider marketing team. • Bring pages to life with thoughtful animations and interactions using Motion, CSS animations, or whatever approach fits. We want buffer.com http://buffer.com to feel as good as our product, and you'll be the person making that happen. • 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 http://buffer.com through ongoing iteration - auditing what's there, fixing what needs fixing, and raising the standards over time so every visitor has a great experience. • Help shape how we work by pairing with engineers, reviewing code, and sharing what you know about front-end architecture, design systems, and accessibility patterns.
Benefits
• Salary Range $156.5K – $202.3K • Offers Equity • We strive for Buffer’s approach to salary, equity, and benefits to be transparent, fair, simple and generous. Read more about our compensation philosophy and approach here. • Upload your resume here to autofill key application fields. • Drop your resume here! • Parsing your resume. Autofilling key fields... • or drag and drop here • What excites you about Buffer's mission and the kind of work we do? How do you see yourself contributing to it in this role? • What problem did it solve, and how did you approach building it? Please include context about your role, the technologies used, and any measurable impact or lessons learned. • Explore this from any angle you like — visual design, interaction quality, animation, accessibility, performance, component architecture, or overall storytelling. What would you redesign, refine, or build next? • What happened, and how did you handle it? What did you learn from it? • This could be anything - technical or not. Something you built, a new tool you tried, something you learned from a book or a side project. We’re more interested in how you share ideas than the topic itself. • As a remote team, we use video a lot - in meetings and pairing sessions, sharing Looms in Slack or adding demos to pull requests. It’s just part of how we work day-to-day, which is why we decided to include it in our hiring process too. • Think of it as a casual conversation with a teammate. No need for slides, script, editing, or polish. Just speak naturally and feel free to share your screen if it helps tell the story, like you would in a team call. • We know this is a big ask. But if your application is a strong fit, we’ll absolutely watch your video - and you’ll hear back from us either way. • Feel free to use the free version of Loom, or any other video recorder and share a link with us.
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