Senior Front-End Design Engineer

JOB TITLE: Senior Front-End Design Engineer

PROGRAM:
Election Products

INDUSTRY/SPECIALIZATION: EMS  

LOCATION: Remote; US-based only

EMPLOYMENT: Full time 40/hr. per week,

WORK AUTHORIZATION: US Citizenship/Green Card

 *** No 3rd party please**

ABOUT US 

The Canton Group is a privately held, family-owned company with over 25 years of delivering award-winning websites, software, and digital modern secure solutions to Fortune 500 organizations and Government entities.  We take immense pride in offering our employees the benefit of working fully remote while our Headquarters remain open in Baltimore, Maryland. The Canton Group’s presence spans across the nation – including our employees and clients – apply today and join us on our journey of growth!

Our core values: 

Intellectually Curious | Committed to doing things the right way | Transparent, Honest, and Fair | Determined to delight our customers | Dedicated to Collaboration | 

OVERVIEW:

We're looking for a Senior Front-End Design Engineer who brings a passion for systems thinking, scalable design, and modern front-end technologies. In this role, you’ll contribute significantly to defining the design language and front-end framework of the EMS platform by developing a centralized, reusable, and maintainable component library. This is more than just crafting UI—it's about architecting a component system that supports rapid development, ensures accessibility and regulatory compliance, and delivers a seamless user experience at scale.

Elections are the backbone of democracy, and technology is critical in ensuring they're fair, accessible, and resilient. The design system you help shape will directly impact thousands of election workers—and millions of voters—by making complex processes clear, consistent, and trustworthy.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

• Partner with Design Team to build, maintain, and drive adoption of a reusable component library.
• Ensure components are modular, flexible, and documented to support rapid assembly across multiple jurisdictions and feature sets.
• Collaborate with UX/UI designers to bring prototypes to life, offering both technical feedback and creative input to improve user experiences.
• Creating and maintaining core standards like responsive design, a11y, and i18n, and training our internal teams to become experts in layering these concepts to our applications.
• Manage the upgrade and lifecycle of core components; define what gets centralized vs. forked for unique implementation needs.
• Maintain comprehensive component documentation, usage guidelines, and contribution standards for designers and engineers.
• Engage regularly with internal development teams to gather feedback and identify improvement opportunities.
• Explore how Gen AI and AI-powered UX patterns (predictive forms, personalized UI, etc.) can enhance EMS workflows and voter engagement tools.
• Ensure all components meet stringent standards for performance, usability, and inclusivity.
  

REQUIRED EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:

• Five (5+) years of professional front-end engineering experience, ideally in design systems or enterprise-level component libraries.
• Strong command of modern JavaScript frameworks & libraries, CSS architecture, accessibility best practices, and performance optimization.
• Currently utilizing .NET Blazor and Telerik component libraries, so experience in those is a plus
• Solid understanding of design tokens, Figma-to-code workflows, and front-end CI/CD pipelines.
• Systems thinker with experience maintaining or contributing to scalable design systems.
• Ability to synthesize product needs and user feedback into elegant component abstractions.
• Understanding of coding for Section 508 & WCAG 2.0 compliance.
• Proficiency in code versioning systems like Git is desirable.
• Familiarity or passion for civic tech, elections, or government systems is a huge plus.
• Bonus: Interest or experience integrating AI/ML or exploring emerging tech in UI/UX.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: 

• Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
  
• Must be able to lift 15 pounds at a time.
  
• May be required to work on-call or long hours if necessary, in case of serious network malfunction.
  

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION/EEO STATEMENT:

It is the policy of the Canton Group to provide equal employment opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law. This policy relates to all phases of employment, including, but not limited to, recruiting, employment, placement, promotion, transfer, demotion, reduction of workforce and termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation, selection for training, the use of all facilities, and participation in all company-sponsored employee activities. Provisions in applicable laws providing for bona fide occupational qualifications, business necessity or age limitations will be adhered to by the company where appropriate.

As part of the company's equal employment opportunity policy, the Canton Group will also take affirmative action as called for by applicable laws and Executive Orders to ensure that minority group individuals, females, disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, other protected veterans, Armed Forces service medal veterans, and qualified disabled persons are introduced into our workforce and considered for promotional opportunities.

Employees and applicants shall not be subjected to harassment, intimidation or any type of retaliation because they have (1) filed a complaint; (2) assisted or participated in an investigation, compliance review, hearing or any other activity related to the administration of any federal, state or local law requiring equal employment opportunity; (3) opposed any act or practice made unlawful by any federal, state or local law requiring equal opportunity; or (4) exercised any other legal right protected by federal, state or local law requiring equal opportunity.

The above-mentioned policies shall be periodically brought to the attention of supervisors and shall be appropriately administered. It is the responsibility of each supervisor of the company to ensure affirmative implementation of these policies to avoid any discrimination in employment. All employees are expected to recognize these policies and cooperate with their implementation. Violation of these policies is a disciplinary offense.

Compensation$95,000 - $105,000