Lead UI Engineer (Staff Level or Above)

Blink Health is a rapidly expanding healthcare technology company dedicated to making prescription medications accessible and affordable for everyone. This pivotal role seeks a UI Engineer/Architect to spearhead the visual and interactive foundations of Blink's digital ecosystem. You will collaborate closely with Product Design, Software Engineering, and cross-functional teams to develop and scale a shared frontend design system. This system will ensure consistent, high-quality user experiences across all our products by establishing frameworks, components, and standards. The position demands strong technical execution combined with meticulous attention to design detail and end-user experience, ultimately making great design easy to implement and delightful for users.

Must Have

• Build and evolve standardized UI components.
• Ensure quality and consistency through code and design reviews.
• Maintain the design system library with documentation.
• Integrate design system components into existing products.
• Act as a consultant and mentor for other engineering teams.
• Prototype and explore new ideas and UI paradigms.
• 7+ years of professional experience in front-end or UI engineering.
• Proven experience on enterprise-scale or complex professional software.
• Prior contributions to a frontend design system at scale.
• Experience integrating UI components into a complex ecosystem.
• Comfort with rapid prototyping and experimentation.
• Strong appreciation for design quality and subtle details.
• Ability to communicate effectively with designers, engineers, and product managers.
• A proactive, problem-solving mindset.

Good to Have

• Experience working in industries such as healthcare, fintech, or other regulated domains.

About the Role

We’re looking for a UI Engineer / Architect to shape and scale the visual and interaction foundations of Blink’s digital ecosystem. You’ll partner with Product Design, Software Engineering, and cross-functional teams to evolve the shared frontend design system that drives consistent, high-quality experiences across all our products.

This is a hands-on role that combines strong technical execution with a deep attention to design detail and end-user experience. You’ll help teams deliver cohesive experiences faster by building the framework, components, and standards that make great design easy to implement, consistently high in quality, and delightful for users.

What You’ll Do

• Build and Evolve Components: Create and refine standardized UI components that deliver the highest standards of quality, performance, accessibility, and design fidelity.
• Ensure Quality & Consistency: Conduct code reviews, validate design fit and finish, and collaborate with the Design team through implementation reviews to ensure pixel-perfect execution.
• Maintain the Design System Library: Publish, document, and maintain components in our centralized library — ensuring scalability and ease of adoption across teams.
• Integrate into Existing Products: Work with teams to integrate design system components into existing products that are transitioning to shared UI infrastructure.
• Partner Across Engineering: Act as a consultant and mentor for other engineering teams, promoting best practices for using and extending the design system.
• Prototype & Explore New Ideas: Create live prototypes and proofs of concept to test and validate new patterns, workflows, and UI paradigms before full-scale development.

What We’re Looking For

• Preferred Experience
• 7+ years of professional experience in front-end or UI engineering.
• Proven experience working on enterprise-scale or complex professional software.
• Prior contributions to a frontend design system at scale.
• Experience integrating UI components into a complex ecosystem.
• Comfort with rapid prototyping and experimentation.
• Experience working in industries such as healthcare, fintech, or other regulated domains is a plus.
• Technical Expertise
• Strong proficiency in React, JavaScript, and modern front-end tooling.
• Expert use of modern AI-assisted tools (e.g., Cursor, GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT)
• Proficiency in Figma, including interpreting design to code and collaborating on component architecture and responsive principles.
• Familiarity with the Storybook or similar environments.
• Understanding of WCAG accessibility standards and UI performance optimization.
• Collaboration & Craftsmanship
• Strong appreciation for design quality and the subtle details that make interfaces intuitive and engaging.
• Ability to communicate effectively with designers, engineers, and product managers.
• A proactive, problem-solving mindset — especially when bridging design and engineering.

Why Join Us:

It is rare to have a company that both deeply impacts its customers and is able to provide its services across a massive population. At Blink, we have a huge impact on people when they are most vulnerable: at the intersection of their healthcare and finances. We are also the fastest growing healthcare company in the country and are driving that impact across millions of new patients every year. Our business model not only helps people, but drives economics that allow us to build a generational company. We are a relentlessly learning, constantly curious, and aggressively collaborative cross-functional team dedicated to inventing new ways to improve the lives of our customers.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity of all kinds. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.