Senior Design Engineer

This is a fully remote role within the United States.

We’re looking for a product-minded Design Engineer to bridge the gap between design intent and the experience we ultimately ship. You’ll evolve Pit Viper, Turquoise Health’s design system and component library, while working directly in product code to improve the usability, consistency, accessibility, and polish of our applications.

Pit Viper includes visual foundations, layouts, CSS patterns, and pv-components built with Vue. Those components can also be distributed as native Web Components, allowing us to reuse the system in lighter-weight, server-driven parts of the product powered by Django templates.

You’ll help determine what the right interactions should be, implement them in production, and identify when an individual product improvement should become a reusable system capability.

Success in this role means being able to demonstrate outcomes such as:

A recurring product pattern that previously required one-off implementations is now supported by a flexible, well-documented pv-component

A critical workflow is materially easier to understand because its interaction, hierarchy, responsive behavior, and edge states have been refined in code

Vue and HTMX-powered product surfaces can use the same components without creating fragmented user experiences

Accessibility, visual consistency, and interaction issues are caught and resolved before release rather than during post-launch cleanup

Product engineers can ship high-quality experiences more quickly because our design system gives them stronger defaults

Responsibilities

Design, build, test, document, and maintain reusable pv-components within our internal design system (PitViper)

Create thoughtful component APIs, composition patterns, variants, interaction states, and extension points that serve emerging product needs

Ensure components work naturally within Vue applications while remaining useful as native Web Components in HTML and other server-rendered product surfaces

Partner closely with product designers and engineers throughout the development process, from early exploration through production implementation

Work directly in application code to refine layouts, interactions, responsive behavior, typography, spacing, focus management, transitions, and feedback states

Last-mile design delivery: implementation of details that are often missed between a design file and production, including loading, empty, error, success, disabled, hover, and keyboard-navigation states

Review product surfaces for visual, behavioral, and accessibility inconsistencies, then fix them at the appropriate level: within the feature, shared application code, or Pit Viper

Improve the documentation, testing, release processes, and contribution practices that make Pit Viper easier for other teams to adopt

What you’ll bring to the role

5+ years building production web interfaces with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript or TypeScript

1+ years of direct, hands-on experience building or maintaining a design system, component library, or shared UI framework (not just consuming one)

Strong visual and interaction-design judgment. You can recognize why an interface feels unfinished and translate that observation into a concrete implementation

Production-level experience with Vue (or a comparable component framework — React/Svelte/Angular)

Demonstrable experience implementing accessibility standards (WCAG) in shipped components, not just design reviews

A portfolio, GitHub, or work sample showing before/after component or interaction work (not just visual mockups)

Bonus Points

Experience authoring and publishing native Web Components consumed outside their originating framework

Experience working across a mixed-framework stack — a JS framework alongside server-rendered templates (Django, Rails, HTMX, or similar)

Experience contributing to or maintaining a component library used by 10+ other engineers/teams

Familiarity with Storybook, Figma-to-code tooling, or similar design-system tooling

Experience in healthcare, fintech, or another data-dense enterprise product domain

Benefits

Competitive pay with equity options

Stellar healthcare plan options, including Medical, Dental, and Vision, with FSA, DCFSA, and HSA options

Company-sponsored disability and life insurance

Unlimited PTO

401(k) with 4% matching

Fully remote work and flexible working hours

$750 work-from-home setup budget

Paid biannual in-person company summits

Quarterly $150 co-hanging stipend to meet with coworkers

Monthly $100 health and wellness benefit

Generous paid family leave

Annual $1,200 learning and development stipend

About Turquoise Health

Turquoise Health is a Series C price transparency platform for finance leaders across healthcare. Backed by a16z, Oak HC/FT, Adams Street, Yosemite, Bessemer Venture Partners, and others, we power price transparency for 300+ enterprise organizations and are building the infrastructure for a more open, efficient healthcare marketplace. We're a remote-first, US-based team that values transparency, empathy, inclusivity, creativity, and ownership.

We operate on US business hours and work with clients entirely based in the US. For this role, we are seeking US-based candidates.

We strongly encourage BIPOC, people with disabilities, and LGBTQIA+ folks to apply for any open roles of interest. Healthcare affects all people differently, but it significantly affects those in underserved communities. With a robust, diverse team, we are stronger and better equipped to change the future of healthcare for all.

Work Authorization

This role requires current authorization to work in the United States. Turquoise does not sponsor employment visas (H-1B, PERM, etc.) or assume sponsorship of existing visas for this position.

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