Design Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Partner closely with design, product, and engineering to develop, maintain, and evolve our design system, ensuring aesthetic cohesion and a scalable front-end architecture.
• Collaborate with PMs and engineers to align on requirements, feasibility, and sequencing, helping shape how features are built from concept through launch.
• Document patterns, promote consistency, and drive adoption of shared systems across teams.
• Own and define our process and approach to frontend development as the first design engineer, acting as a bridge between design intent and production code.
• Translate Figma designs into pixel-perfect, accessible, and performant interfaces with a focus on visual consistency and high-quality user experience.
• Design and implement thoughtful UI interactions and micro-interactions that enhance clarity, feedback, and usability across the product.
• Bring high-quality interaction patterns to life, including transitions, states, and responsive behaviors that make the interface feel polished and intuitive.
• Work closely with engineering to ensure components ship with the intended fidelity, reducing visual regressions and post-launch polish work.
• Refactor existing surfaces to implement the design system, improve usability, and unify the visual language across the product and marketing site.

Requirements

• 2+ years of Javascript, Typescript, and React experience.
• Startup mindset with a strong sense of ownership, urgency, and pragmatism.
• Experience in a fast-paced and frequent code deployment environment.
• Strong understanding of interaction patterns, responsive layout systems, accessibility, usability principles, and visual design best practices.
• Proficient in Figma.
• Up-to-date on modern tools and developer workflows (Cursor, Vercel, etc.).
• Ability to solve complex problems independently with minimal guidance.
• Willingness to work in person at our office 4-5 days a week.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with advanced web animations and complex visual effects (three.js, webGL, anime.js, GSAP, etc.).
• Experience with mobile design systems.

Compensation and Benefits

• Salary range: $170,000 - $200,000 base.
• Equity in the company.
• Medical, Dental and Vision premiums covered at 100%.
• Fully paid parental leave.
• Commuter benefits.
• 401k benefits.
• Fitness & home services stipend.
• Unlimited vacation and paid holidays.
• Relocation packages.