Senior/Staff Design Engineer

About the role

We're seeking a Design Engineer to enhance the interaction quality, motion, and polish of our products. This role involves working closely with designers and engineers to develop new features, ensuring consistency and polish in all we produce.

Responsibilities

• Embed across various product teams to support high-impact work, partnering with designers and engineers from ideation to launch.
• Prototype and build interaction-rich experiences that bring design concepts to life in production.
• Collaborate with product designers and product managers to identify opportunities and explore solutions.
• Define motion and interaction standards that scale across the product.
• Proactively identify and execute on opportunities that raise the overall quality bar for visual polish, interaction, and frontend craft across the company.
• Audit and improve production UI by identifying and fixing visual bugs, inconsistencies, and interaction gaps.
• Contribute to design system improvements in partnership with design and the frontend platform team.

Requirements

• 5+ years of frontend or UX engineering experience, preferably in consumer or product-focused companies.
• Excellent sense of visual and interaction design, with an eye for spacing, typography, motion, and delightful details.
• Experience collaborating closely with designers throughout the entire product development process.
• Ability to prototype quickly and translate ambiguous ideas into tangible interfaces.
• Experience building scalable component libraries, design systems, or reusable UI frameworks.
• Fluency in modern JavaScript/TypeScript, Next, React, CSS systems, and component architecture.
• Understanding of accessibility (WCAG) and web performance considerations.
• Systems mindset, seeing patterns, simplifying complexity, and designing for long-term reuse.
• Strong communication skills and ability to influence product direction and UI standards.
• A passion for building delightful, consumer-grade user experiences.
• Founder’s mindset - ownership, speed, scrappiness, resilience, bias toward action.

Qualifications

• Experience with motion and interaction design.
• Knowledge of accessibility standards (WCAG).
• Experience with web performance optimization.

Skills

• Frontend or UX engineering skills.
• Design system knowledge.
• Prototyping and rapid prototyping.
• Component library creation.
• Accessibility and web performance expertise.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health coverage.
• Parental leave and family support.
• Financial wellness programs.
• Meals and home office support.
• Flexible PTO and paid holidays.
• Annual stipends for personal and professional growth.
• Mental and physical health support.
• Pet insurance discounts.
• Commuter benefits.
• Global travel assistance.

Pay

The base compensation range for this position is: $182,000–$250,000 USD Annually.

Schedule

This role is hybrid, with commitment to either NYC, San Francisco, or Seattle hub locations. The base compensation varies based on factors including relevant experience, qualifications, and the candidate's working location.