# Design Engineer

**Company:** [Rillet](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/rillet)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY
**Role:** Product Design
**Skills:** React, Svelte, Figma, Design Systems, AI Tools, JavaScript, CSS, Accessibility, Prototyping, Component Libraries
**Posted:** 2026-05-08

> Design Engineer owns full arc from visual concepts to production code, driving platform refresh, building design systems, and ensuring pixel-perfect, performant UI for financial ERP platform. Requires exceptional taste, frontend fluency (React preferred), and systems thinking.

## Job Description

## 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.

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