Design Engineer

About the role

We are seeking a Design Engineer to join our dynamic team. This role sits at the intersection of design and engineering, requiring someone who can translate brand direction into a cohesive product experience while also driving the platform refresh.

Responsibilities

• 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. This may involve starting from a loose Figma exploration, a customer problem, a brand direction, or a half-formed product intuition, and bringing 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, ensuring 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, and notice what’s off before anyone asks. Then fix it.

Requirements

• Exceptional taste and deep curiosity.
• Strong product instincts and comfort working from ambiguity.
• Frontend fluency, including React experience preferred and Svelte as a bonus.
• Comfort using AI tools to move faster, prototype more broadly, and automate repetitive parts of the design-engineering workflow.
• A bias toward shipping and moving quickly without lowering the bar.

Qualifications

• A portfolio or body of work that shows strong visual judgment, interaction sensibility, and the ability to move between design exploration and production execution.

Skills

• Understanding of modern web interfaces and how they are built.
• Experience writing clean, performant production code.
• Systems thinking and a focus on reusable primitives, scalable patterns, design tokens, and component APIs.
• High craft in the details such as spacing, type, hierarchy, motion, affordances, loading states, empty states, keyboard behavior, accessibility, and performance.

Benefits

Competitive Pay & Benefits: Backed by world-class investors, we offer strong salaries plus equity so you share in our success. We've got you covered with top-tier health and dental insurance, premiums partially or fully covered for you, plus 90% coverage for dependents.

Flexibility That Works: Take the time you need with flexible PTO and 9 company-wide holidays. We value both the flexibility of remote and hybrid work and the creativity and energy that comes from in-person collaboration at our hubs in San Francisco, NYC, and Barcelona.

Build Real Connections: Great work happens when people connect. Join us for team offsites in incredible locations, our team has bonded everywhere from New York and San Francisco to Toronto, Italy, France, and beyond.