Design Engineer

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the product experience, visual language, interaction patterns, and overall feel of the platform across key user journeys
• Translate ambiguous product goals, user needs, and AI workflow concepts into clear flows, prototypes, and polished interface designs
• Raise the bar at the macro level, but also with great attention to detail at the micro level
• Re-imagine usability, hierarchy, typography, spacing, motion, micro interactions, state transitions, etc. for AI-native platforms
• Build production-quality frontend experiences using modern technologies such as React, TypeScript, Next.js, CSS, or comparable frameworks
• Move fluidly from prototype to shipped product, balancing speed, maintainability, accessibility, responsiveness, and technical quality
• Own frontend changes from design exploration and implementation through production rollout, feedback, and iteration
• Partner with Engineering, Data, and domain teams to connect interfaces to real services, data, model outputs, permissions, and platform capabilities
• Design and build interfaces that make complex AI capabilities, model outputs, human review flows, and operational workflows easy to use
• Identify where AI can improve user productivity while preserving clarity, trust, control, and auditability in the experience
• Create and maintain reusable components, design-system primitives, interaction patterns, and frontend conventions that help the product scale consistently
• Improve interface quality through thoughtful component architecture, responsive behavior, browser performance, accessibility, and cross-device polish
• Contribute to documentation, examples, usage guidance, and review practices that help engineers and designers apply patterns consistently
• Identify and address UX debt, visual inconsistencies, and frontend quality risks before they become entrenched in the product
• Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, Security, Operations, and SMEs to understand workflows, constraints, and user pain points
• Use customer feedback, usability findings, analytics, and stakeholder input to improve product clarity and usefulness over time
• Balance user delight with operational, compliance, security, and engineering constraints appropriate for a regulated fintech environment

Qualifications

• 4-7+ years of experience designing and building high-quality software products, ideally in a fast-moving product engineering environment
• Strong portfolio or body of shipped work demonstrating product taste, interaction design judgment, visual craft, and frontend implementation quality
• Hands-on experience with Figma or similar design tools and a strong command of UX flows, hierarchy, typography, spacing, and visual polish
• Strong frontend engineering experience with React, TypeScript, modern CSS, responsive layouts, component architecture, browser fundamentals, and production frontend practices
• Ability to design for desktop and mobile experiences, including responsive behavior, accessibility, performance, and cross-browser quality
• Comfort working with AI-enabled, data-heavy, integration-heavy, or operationally critical product experiences where clarity and trust matter
• Working knowledge of design systems, reusable components, interaction patterns, and frontend quality practices
• Comfort using AI-native tools, coding agents, and rapid prototyping workflows to accelerate exploration and implementation
• Good judgment in ambiguous environments where the path is not fully defined and the team needs to go from zero to one
• Clear communication skills with both technical and non-technical teammates