Design Engineer

What You'll Do

• Drive Rillet’s platform refresh across core surfaces like the launchpad, side nav, login, navigation patterns, empty states, tables, workflows, and other high-frequency product experiences.
• Turn rough ideas into shipped product. Start from a loose Figma exploration, a customer problem, a brand direction, or a half-formed product intuition—and bring it all the way to polished, production-ready UI.
• Build and evolve Rillet’s design system: tokens, components, interaction patterns, motion principles, layout primitives, documentation, and the implementation details that make product-wide changes fast and reliable.
• Translate our upcoming brand refresh into the product quickly and thoughtfully, making sure the platform feels cohesive rather than “reskinned.”
• Raise the bar for product quality across visual design, interaction design, accessibility, responsiveness, performance, and micro-details.
• Prototype in code when Figma is too slow or too static, especially for motion, interaction, responsiveness, keyboard behavior, AI workflows, and complex financial surfaces.
• Identify design-to-code workflows that should be automated, systematized, or agentized. Help build the context, components, and patterns that make AI-assisted product development faster and more brand-consistent.
• Partner with product designers, engineers, and founders to shape the experience—not just implement it. Bring opinions, taste, and alternatives.
• Notice what’s off before anyone asks. Then fix it.

Who We're Looking For

• Exceptional taste. Can tell when something is almost right but not quite—and know how to make it better.
• Deep curiosity. Constantly exploring new products, tools, interaction patterns, AI workflows, visual systems, and ways of building on the web.
• Enjoy both design and engineering, not as separate phases.
• Strong product instincts. Reason from customer needs to interface decisions.
• Frontend fluency. Understand modern web interfaces and write clean, performant production code. React experience preferred; Svelte a bonus.
• Comfort working from ambiguity. Take open-ended areas, form POV, prototype, get feedback, ship.
• Systems thinking. Care about reusable primitives, scalable patterns, design tokens, component APIs.
• High craft in details: spacing, type, hierarchy, motion, affordances, loading states, empty states, keyboard behavior, accessibility, performance.
• Portfolio showing strong visual judgment, interaction sensibility, design exploration to production execution.
• Comfort using AI tools to move faster, prototype broadly, automate repetitive workflows—without outsourcing taste.
• Bias toward shipping quickly without lowering the bar.

Life at Rillet

• Competitive Pay & Benefits: Strong salaries plus equity. Top-tier health and dental insurance.
• Room to Grow: Scale with the company.
• Flexibility: Flexible PTO, 9 company-wide holidays, remote and hybrid options with hubs in San Francisco, NYC.