Senior/Staff Design Engineer

About the Role

We’re looking for a Design Engineer to raise the bar on interaction quality, motion, and polish across our product. This role sits at the intersection of design and engineering — you'll work directly with designers and engineers to ship new features that feel crafted, consistent, and human.

You'll embed across product teams to support high-impact work from ideation through launch, owning the interaction quality layer and ensuring a high level of polish in everything we ship. Beyond new feature development, you’ll proactively identify and address gaps in production — fixing visual bugs, refining interactions, and improving overall UI quality across the product.

You’ll also help define motion and interaction patterns that scale, contribute to design system improvements, and partner with our frontend platform team to close the gap between design intent and production reality. This is a foundational role for building a world-class product surface and elevating our craft as we scale.

What You’ll Do

• Embed across various product teams to support high-impact work, partnering with designers and engineers from ideation to launch.
• Prototype and build interaction-rich experiences that bring design concepts to life in production.
• Collaborate with product designers and product managers to identify opportunities and explore solutions.
• Define motion and interaction standards that scale across the product.
• Proactively identify and execute on opportunities that raise the overall quality bar for visual polish, interaction, and frontend craft across the company.
• Audit and improve production UI by identifying and fixing visual bugs, inconsistencies, and interaction gaps.
• Contribute to design system improvements in partnership with design and the frontend platform team.

What You Bring

• 5+ years of frontend or UX engineering experience, ideally in consumer or product-focused companies.
• Excellent sense of visual and interaction design, with an eye for spacing, typography, motion, and delightful details.
• Experience collaborating closely with designers throughout the entire product development process.
• Ability to prototype quickly and translate ambiguous ideas into tangible interfaces.
• Ability to build scalable component libraries, design systems, or reusable UI frameworks.
• Fluency in modern JavaScript/TypeScript, Next, React, CSS systems, and component architecture.
• An understanding of accessibility (WCAG) and web performance considerations.
• A systems mindset seeing patterns, simplifying complexity, and designing for long-term reuse.
• Strong communication skills and ability to influence product direction and UI standards.
• A passion for building delightful, consumer-grade user experiences.
• Founder’s mindset - ownership, speed, scrappiness, resilience, bias toward action.

Why This Role Matters

As we scale our product and organization, the need for consistent, high-quality UI becomes critical. A dedicated Design Engineer ensures we can continue to ship beautiful, intuitive experiences, while giving every team the tools and frameworks they need to move faster without compromising quality.

This role will be foundational in shaping our product’s visual identity, strengthening our design-engineering partnership, and building a consumer-grade experience that sets the industry standard.

Role Details:

• Employment Type: Full Time, Exempt
• Base Compensation: The base compensation range for this position is:
• Hybrid Commitment: $182,000–$250,000 USD USD Annually

This role is hybrid, onsite from our NYC, San Francisco, or Seattle hub location.

The base compensation for this role will vary depending on several factors, including relevant experience, qualifications, and the candidate’s working location.

Full Time Employee Benefits:

• Comprehensive Health Coverage: Medical, dental, and vision insurance, plus life and disability coverage.
• Parental Leave & Family Support: Up to 18 weeks paid leave and a new child stipend.
• Financial Wellness: 401(k) program and equity opportunities.
• Meals & Home Office Support: Stipends for home office setup and ongoing funds for meals, with tailored perks for both remote and in-office employees.
• Time Off to Recharge: Flexible PTO, 12 paid holidays, and a full winter break week.
• Wellness & Development: Annual stipends to put towards personal & professional growth.
• Mental & Physical Health Support: No-cost access to therapy through the Grow platform, weekly flexible hours for self-care (“Mental Health Mornings/Afternoons”) and memberships to leading wellness apps (such as One Medical, Headspace, and Talkspace).
• Extra Perks: Pet insurance discounts, commuter benefits, and global travel assistance.