<h3>About <a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/niche">Niche</a></h3><p><a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/niche">Niche</a> is the leader in school search. Our mission is to make researching and enrolling in schools easy, transparent, and free. With in-depth profiles on every school and college in America, 140 million reviews and ratings, and powerful search tools, we help millions of people find the right school for them. We also help thousands of schools recruit more best-fit students, by highlighting what makes them great and making it easier to visit and apply.</p><p><a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/niche">Niche</a> is all about finding where you belong, and that mission inspires how we operate every day. We want <a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/niche">Niche</a> to be a place where people truly enjoy working and can thrive professionally.</p><h3>About The Role</h3><p>Every year, millions of families start the school search process. Students wade through a sea of information and decisions to make, and unfortunately access to help hasn’t changed much in decades: it’s not super clear what your options are, and you might not feel confident that a school is right for you, or think you’ll be able to afford it.</p><p><a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/niche">Niche</a> is on a mission to make researching and enrolling in schools easy, transparent, and free. Students need support choosing a school and paying for their education, schools want to find students who will thrive on their campus, and families need help supporting their students every step of the way. <a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/niche">Niche</a> helps ensure that it’s not just students already confident about college who get enrolled and can afford to attend.</p><p>We’re looking for a Staff Design Systems Engineer to help define what modern design-to-code looks like at <a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/niche">Niche</a>, starting with overhauling our design system Expedite in partnership with two dedicated Product Engineers and the rest of the Product Design team. This is an exciting UX engineering role that requires both frontend and design fluency and reports to the Senior Director of Product Design. You’ll build and ship accessible, production-ready components, create and use AI tooling and LLM guidelines, and help shape new design workflows.</p><p>You will work closely with designers and engineers to help shape the foundations, components, and patterns that product teams will rely on every day. Starting on day one, you will build your understanding of real product needs and then translate them into scalable systems, tools and processes, ensuring that they grow alongside the company. Your work will help unlock speed and quality across the Product org.</p><p>This role is ideal for a builder who is eager for more ownership. The biggest opportunities: scope of ownership and freedom to experiment, design the future of product design and develo