Design Engineer

What you'll do

You're a design engineer — someone who lives at the intersection of how things look and how they work. You don't just design screens; you build them. You don't just write code; you obsess over whether it feels right. Design and implement features end-to-end — from concept to production

Move fast. We mean it. You're fluent with AI-powered dev tools (Cursor, Claude Code, etc.) and use them to ship at a pace that would be impossible without them

Own the frontend experience — layout, interaction, motion, polish

Work directly with engineering and product, iterate in hours not weeks

Communicate directly. No corporate padding

Extra pluses

• Experience with Figma or similar design tools for rapid prototyping
• You care about accessibility
• You read fiction, build worlds, or create things for fun

Requirements

We care about experience, but it's not a gate. If you've built and shipped real things — jobs, side projects, experiments — and can walk us through what you built, why you built it that way, what broke, and how you solved it, you're good for it.

Ownership matters more than pedigree. Specifically

• Strong frontend chops (React, TypeScript, Next.js or similar)
• Taste. You can look at an interface and immediately feel what's working and what isn't — and you know how to fix it. Not pixel-counting, but genuine aesthetic judgment
• You can go from a rough idea to a polished, interactive implementation without waiting for a spec
• You use AI tools daily to accelerate your work — not as a crutch, but as a multiplier. You know how to prompt, iterate, and ship with them
• You understand enough about the backend to be dangerous — APIs, data flow, auth — so nothing blocks you