BDO USA, LLP

Product Design Engineer - Tax Product Development

BDO USA, LLP$100K — $120K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree with 5-7 years of experience in product design engineering or front-end development, or equivalent experience in lieu of degree
  • Strong portfolio showcasing product thinking and front-end implementation
  • Experience translating complex designs into production-quality interfaces
  • Familiarity with modern development IDEs and frameworks like React, Angular, and TypeScript
  • Knowledge of accessibility standards and responsive design

Responsibilities

  • Translate product concepts and Figma designs into production-ready user experiences
  • Build responsive and performant front-end applications
  • Contribute to design systems and reusable component libraries
  • Collaborate with globally distributed teams in a follow-the-sun model
  • Prototype rapidly to validate ideas and enhance decision-making
  • Leverage AI tools to improve design, development, and testing processes
  • Champion accessibility and usability across digital products
  • Mentor peers and contribute to best practices in design and engineering

Benefits

  • Comprehensive total rewards package including traditional and non-traditional benefits
  • Career development and mentoring opportunities
  • Flexible working arrangements for remote collaboration
  • Diversity and inclusion programs
  • Health and wellness initiatives
Full Job Description
Job Description

Job Summary:

The Tax Digital Transformation & Innovation practice at BDO USA drives the success of our business through intuitive and human-first digital experiences that our employees and clients engage with. We're elevating the way tax professionals deliver services to our clients and the way we help them manage their taxes and tax strategies.

The Tax Digital Transformation & Innovation practice at BDO USA delivers human-centered digital experiences for tax professionals and clients. The Senior Product Design Engineer bridges product design and front-end engineering, transforming complex, data-heavy tax workflows into intuitive, scalable, and accessible experiences.

This role is approximately 70% engineering and 30% design. The ideal candidate can move seamlessly from concept and prototype to production-quality implementation, partnering closely with Product, Engineering, and Design teams across global time zones. You will contribute to our design system, build high-performance user interfaces, and help accelerate product delivery through modern AI-assisted workflows.

Job Duties:
• Translates product concepts and Figma designs into production-ready user experiences
• Builds responsive, accessible, and performant front-end applications
• Contributes to the evolution of shared design systems and reusable component libraries
• Collaborates asynchronously with globally distributed teams in a follow-the-sun model
• Prototypes concepts rapidly to validate ideas and improve decision-making
• Leverages AI-assisted tools and workflows to accelerate design, development, testing, and documentation
• Uses qualitative and quantitative insights to improve user experiences
• Champions accessibility, usability, and consistency across products
• Mentors peers and contribute to design and engineering best practices
• Other duties as required

Supervisory Responsibilities:
• Acts as a career advisor and mentor as assigned

Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Education:
• Bachelor's degree and five (5) or more years of experience in product design engineering, front-end development or UX engineering required; OR High School Diploma/GED and six (6) or more years of experience in product design engineering, front-end development or UX engineering required
• Bachelor's Degree in focus in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, preferred

Experience:
• Experience translating design concepts into production-quality interfaces, preferred
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional product teams, preferred
• Strong portfolio demonstrating product thinking, interaction design, and front-end implementation, preferred

Software:
• Fluency in modern IDEs (e.g. Visual Studio, Cursor, etc.), required
• React, Angular, TypeScript, Next.js, TailwindCSS, and Figma, preferred
• Design systems and component-based architecture, preferred
• Accessibility standards and responsive design, preferred
• REST APIs and modern web application architecture, preferred
• Familiarity with AI tools such as Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Claude, and v0, preferred

Language:
• N/A

Other Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:
• Knowledge of leading practices in frontend execution with a data-driven approach to informing decisions
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Comfortable operating in ambiguous and fast-moving environments
• Strong problem-solving and organizational abilities

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*Benefits may be subject to eligibility requirements.

About BDO USA, LLP

BDO USA, LLP is a professional services firm providing assurance, tax, and advisory services to a wide range of publicly traded and privately held companies. The company was founded in 1910 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. BDO USA has more than 60 offices and over 5,000 employees throughout the United States. The company is a member of the BDO International network, which has more than 1,500 offices in over 160 countries.
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