Design Engineer

About the role

Join our Growth pod as a Design Engineer to build marketing experiences that make nonprofits fall in love with Givebutter. Collaborate with the design team to turn prototypes into production-grade motion, interaction, and web craft.

Responsibilities

• Build acquisition and marketing surfaces in our Astro-based site, focusing on speed, interactivity, personalization, and fun.
• Work with Design to translate Figma, prototypes, and AI-generated explorations into production-grade motion and interaction.
• Implement data-driven marketing pages that bring real campaign and cause data to life.
• Integrate analytics and feature-flagging systems to track and optimize marketing efforts.
• Collaborate with the Webflow team on cross-cutting concerns like analytics and tracking.
• Partner with Growth, Marketing, Design, and Product Engineering teams to bridge gaps and ensure seamless integration.

Requirements

• 4+ years of professional frontend engineering experience building production web applications or marketing sites.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript.
• Understanding of semantic HTML, modern CSS, responsive layouts, and browser rendering behavior.
• Experience with modern frontend frameworks such as Astro, React, Next.js, or Svelte.
• Experience implementing advanced frontend animation systems.
• Experience integrating analytics, A/B testing, or feature flagging systems.
• Experience building reusable frontend components and interaction systems with maintainable architecture.
• Understanding of Core Web Vitals, frontend performance optimization, and accessibility standards.
• Comfortable reviewing, debugging, and refining AI-assisted code output before production deployment.
• Experience using Git-based workflows and collaborating within engineering teams using pull requests and code reviews.

Nice to have

• Enough Webflow comfort to collaborate with a 3rd-party team on tracking, analytics, and technical decisions.
• Experience with data-driven page generation.
• Experience with design systems or motion primitive library maintenance.
• Experience with Cloudflare Workers, edge routing, SEO, and Core Web Vital metrics.
• Background in a designer-first environment.
• A personal site with personality.
• Experience with experimentation and product-analytics tools.