Senior UI Design Engineer
Salary: $160,000 - $220,000
100% Remote from the continental US excluding the Pacific Time Zone and New York state
About the Role
This role is for a Senior UI Designer with a strong software engineering background who will help define and elevate the visual quality of our software products. The ideal candidate has exceptional visual design instincts, a passion for creating intuitive and aesthetically pleasing interfaces, and the technical ability to build the tools, guidance, and reference implementations that enable an entire engineering organization to create consistent, high-quality user experiences.
This is a hands-on role that works closely with software engineers and product teams to establish the organization's design language, create practical design standards, develop themes and supporting tooling, and continuously improve the usability and visual consistency of our applications. Rather than designing individual screens in isolation, you will create the frameworks, guidance, and examples that help every engineer produce software that is intuitive, polished, and visually cohesive.
About MapLarge
Since 2009, MapLarge’s rapidly growing software platform has enabled Fortune 1000 enterprises and government agencies to develop, scale, and deploy mission‑critical applications. Trusted by the world's most sophisticated organizations, our enterprise platform for geospatial analytics and visualization automates decision intelligence and offers a distinct decision advantage. We build cutting-edge products for large enterprises and government agencies that appreciate innovation. If you enjoy working with talented teammates to solve complex challenges, we'd love for you to join us.
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve the organization's visual design language, ensuring consistency, clarity, and usability across software products.
- Develop practical design guidelines, standards, and best practices that enable engineers to create polished, intuitive user interfaces.
- Create and maintain application themes, layout conventions, typography, color palettes, iconography, and other visual design assets used across the platform.
- Design and build tooling that simplifies the application, customization, and evolution of the organization's design system.
- Create reference implementations, sample applications, and design examples that demonstrate best practices and accelerate adoption by engineering teams.
Qualifications
- Must reside in the continental US
- Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Authorized to work in the U.S. with no visa sponsorship required
- 7+ years of experience designing user interfaces for commercial software products, with a strong portfolio demonstrating exceptional visual design and attention to detail.
- Experience with web development including HTML, CSS and Javascript/Typescript
- Demonstrated expertise in visual design principles, including layout, typography, color theory, spacing, iconography, and visual hierarchy.
- Experience developing and maintaining design systems, visual standards, style guides, or similar resources that improve consistency across multiple applications.
- Strong understanding of user-centered design principles and the ability to balance aesthetics with usability and clarity.
Nice to Have
- Experience establishing or evolving the visual design language for a software product or product family.
- Experience creating reusable themes, templates, or design assets that accelerate application development.
- Familiarity with modern front-end development technologies and an understanding of how design decisions translate into implementation.
- Experience designing dashboards, data-intensive applications, or information-rich enterprise software.
- Knowledge of accessibility standards and inclusive design principles.
- Experience creating documentation, design guidance, or educational materials that help engineering teams apply design best practices.
- Experience working in Agile software development environments.
- A portfolio showcasing design systems, application interfaces, or other examples that demonstrate both visual excellence and thoughtful problem solving.
Cultural Fit
While we hire all kinds of people and invent roles to fit them, there are four key traits we require of every team member that really define our team.
- Fun to Work With - Life is short and work should be fun.
- Smart - We work on cutting-edge hard problems. We need people who are quick learners, can anticipate needs, and solve problems independently while working with an intelligent peer group.
- Passionate & Proactive - We need people who really love their work and exhibit the energy and creativity that comes from being fully engaged in what you do.
- Adaptable - We hire team members for specific roles, but we expect adaptability as the business needs change and evolve.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and 401K
- Top-notch health care
- Family friendly
- 100% remote flexibility
- Cutting-edge tech with an A+ team solving complex, meaningful problems
- Collaborative, intelligent, positive, and supportive team culture
MapLarge is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. MapLarge is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.
