Design Engineer

About the role

We are excited to hire a Design Engineer to architect the surfaces and interfaces that our developers touch every day. This is a hands-on, high-impact role that blends creative design thinking with front-end engineering.

What You'll Do

• Design and ship product experiences.
• Lead design across our platform product with two other design engineers
• Build with modern tools: Develop responsive, accessible, and interactive product experiences using React, Next.js, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS.
• Bridge design & code: Work in Figma and code to translate visual concepts into high-quality, interactive experiences and prototypes.
• Elevate quality: Raise the bar on craft and consistency, shipping visible, tasteful work that makes Browserbase feel top-of-class.
• Shape systems: Establish and maintain a reusable design system of components and patterns that scale with the team.
• Collaborate deeply: Partner with designers, engineers, growth, and product leads to own projects from concept to launch.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product design experience at a high-growth startup.
• A portfolio demonstrating strong systems thinking and end-to-end ownership, from IA to visual detail.
• Strong prototyping fluency across interaction, visual detail, and motion.
• A track record of building internal tooling or systems that leveled up the teams around you.
• Exceptional sense of visual craft with deep attention to typography, hierarchy, and UI.
• A low-ego, high-ownership mindset with a track record of shipping in tight collaboration with engineering.

Bonus Points

• Experience designing for developer tools, infrastructure products, or technical platforms.
• Front-end fluency with React, Next.js, or Tailwind to prototype directly in code.
• Founder or early-stage operator experience.