Staff Design Engineer

About the role

We're looking to hire an engineer to build extremely high-fidelity, high-taste interfaces. Maybe you were a designer in a past life, but now write code. You'll raise the bar for visual and interaction quality across our product surfaces, working closely with engineering, product, and design partners.

What You Will Do

• Design and build the high-fidelity, polished interfaces in our product
• Raise the bar for frontend craft, interaction design, motion, visual detail, performance under real usage
• Partner closely with product and engineering to turn rough ideas into shippable, delightful experiences
• Made sound architectural decisions for frontend systems that scale with the product
• Mentor other engineers on design sensibility and frontend craft
• Grow into broader product ownership, understanding customer needs, business context, and shipping end-to-end

Who You Are

• You have strong design instincts, but prefer to build rather than only spec
• You have strong opinions about product quality and can point to specific things you'd fix in products you use every day
• You've shipped genuinely complex frontend components — whether the complexity was technical (performance, real-time data, animation) or experiential (making something hard feel simple)
• You're energized by both the craft of building and by understanding why something matters to the business and its customers
• Deep expertise in a modern JS framework: React, Vue, Svelte, or Solid
• JSA track record of shipping interfaces with real visual and interaction craft — not just functional, but genuinely good
• Staff+ level ability to operate autonomously and make good judgment calls with limited direction

Nice To Have

• Experience shipping products end-to-end to external customers, and understanding how that work mapped to business goals
• Startup or early-stage experience, where you had to wear a product-thinking hat as well as an engineering one
• Experience in developer tools, infrastructure, or technically dense product spaces

Benefits

• Generous equity grant
• Team members are offered a competitive salary along with equity in the company
• Visa Sponsorships
• Yes, we sponsor visas and work permits
• Retirement matching
• We match 401(k) plans up to 4%
• Medical, dental & vision
• We offer competitive medical, dental, vision insurance for employees and dependents and cover 100% of premiums
• Time off
• We offer unlimited paid time off as well as 10+ observed holidays
• Parental leave
• We offer biological, adoptive, and foster parents paid time off to spend quality time with family
• Daily lunch
• We cover lunch daily for employees
• Unlimited office book budget

The San Francisco Compute Company

• We are committed to maintaining a workplace free from discrimination and harassment.
• We make employment decisions based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, belief, national origin, social or ethical origin, age, physical, mental, or sensory disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, HIV status, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status including pregnancy, or any other status protected by law.
• We welcome the opportunity to consider qualified applicants with prior arrest or conviction records.
• Our commitment to diversity includes hiring talented individuals regardless of their criminal history, in accordance with local, state, and federal laws, including San Francisco’s Fair Chance Ordinance and California’s ban-the-box laws.