Location: Atlanta Preferred, Hybrid/Remote
Department: Product Management

Maxio is a leading SaaS company revolutionizing the way subscription businesses handle their financial operations. We offer a comprehensive platform designed to streamline billing, revenue recognition, and financial reporting for subscription-based companies. Our mission is to provide businesses with the tools they need to scale effectively and efficiently in an increasingly complex subscription landscape.
 

Position Overview:

Maxio is looking for a Design Engineer to join our Product Design team and help bridge the gap between design and development, ensuring our products are functional, cohesive, and user-centered. Whether you're a front-end engineer with a strong design sensibility or a technically adept product designer, you thrive in the "front of the front-end" space.

In this role, you'll collaborate closely with designers, engineers, and cross-functional teams to develop, maintain, and evolve Maxio’s design system. Your work will empower product teams to build with consistency, efficiency, and craft—enabling delightful, high-quality experiences across our platform.

Key Responsibilities:

• System Development and Maintenance:
  • Design reusable components and patterns that align with Maxio’s design principles.
  • Conduct usability testing and prototype components to ensure they meet both user needs and technical requirements.
  • Develop, maintain, and evolve our design system code repositories and shared Figma libraries.
  • Create clear, comprehensive documentation to support adoption across diverse teams.
• Collaboration and Enablement:
  • Partner with product designers, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure the design system integrates seamlessly into product development workflows.
  • Facilitate a contribution culture by mentoring teams on how to leverage and contribute to the design system.
  • Act as the bridge between design and engineering, enabling teams to deliver consistent and high-quality user experiences.
  • Continuously research and identify opportunities to improve design and engineering processes through automation, tools, and emerging technologies.
• Leadership and Strategy:
  • Contribute to the long-term vision and roadmap of the design system, aligning it with organizational goals.
  • Champion accessibility and inclusivity across all design system efforts, ensuring compliance with WCAG and other standards.
  • Mentor team members and advocate for best practices in design and engineering.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

Experience:

• 5+ years of experience in product design or front-end engineering, preferably within a SaaS environment.
• Proven experience building and maintaining design systems.
• Expertise in front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, and React) and tools such as Figma and Storybook.

• Strong skills in visual design, interaction design, and prototyping demonstrated through a portfolio of work, spanning desktop and mobile surfaces.
• Familiarity with design tokens, API-based design systems, or other advanced system architectures.

Communication & Collaboration:

• Exceptional collaboration and communication skills, with a track record of partnering with design, engineering, and product teams.
• Strong organizational skills and a love for documentation.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Understanding of accessibility standards (WCAG).
• Passion for mentoring and educating teams on leveraging design systems to improve workflow efficiency and consistency.
• Experience with automation tools and emerging technologies that improve design and engineering processes.

Maxio Benefits & Perks:

• Health, dental, and vision insurance plans
• Medical and dependent care flexible spending accounts
• Paid monthly mental healthcare access with Headspace
• Open PTO - we like to keep this simple...making time for life is important!
• 13 paid standard holidays each year - Including a company-wide Winter Break
• 401(k) savings plan with company match!
• Macbook Laptop
• Paid Parental Leave
• A collaborative, entrepreneurial learning environment with a proven playbook

Maxio is committed to providing all team members a truly unique experience with opportunities for professional development and involvement in multiple dimensions of running and growing our business.

Our commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: we are committed to an environment that promotes equality, diversity, and inclusion. It's important to us that you bring your true self to work every day, no matter your age, ethnicity, religion, citizenship, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, neurodiversity, or otherwise.