Design Engineer

About the role

A Design Engineer at Rove will bridge product design and frontend engineering, transforming complex airline loyalty systems into elegant, high-performance user experiences. This role involves designing and building intuitive interfaces for award search, points transfers, and the Rove travel portal, ensuring that sophisticated routing logic and rewards infrastructure feel seamless to the end user.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end design and frontend implementation of Rove’s award search and booking experience, including segmented awards and repositioning flows.
• Translate complex airline loyalty rules, points transfers, and redemption mechanics into simple, intuitive UI patterns.
• Collaborate closely with backend engineering to integrate rewards infrastructure into polished product surfaces.
• Establish and evolve Rove’s design system to ensure consistency, scalability, and performance across web and mobile.
• Drive rapid experimentation and iteration across growth surfaces, onboarding flows, and loyalty earning experiences.

Qualifications

• Deep passion for travel hacking and airline loyalty programs.
• Strong product intuition with the ability to simplify technically complex systems.
• Proven experience shipping production-grade frontend applications.
• Strong knowledge of React Native, TypeScript, modern CSS frameworks, and performance optimization.
• Experience working closely with APIs and understanding backend constraints.
• Exceptional design sensibility paired with strong engineering execution.

Desirable Skills

• Experience building or contributing to a scalable design system.
• Familiarity with Figma and high-fidelity prototyping workflows.
• Experience working at an early-stage startup and shipping quickly under ambiguity.
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, growth, and partnerships.

Additional Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Design, or a related field preferred.
• Prior experience in a product-driven startup environment.
• A passion for building category-defining products in fintech and travel.