Senior Design Engineer

5+ years of frontend or UX engineering experience, ideally in consumer or product-focused companies. Strong ability to build scalable component libraries, design systems, or reusable UI frameworks. Excellent sense of visual and interaction design, with an eye for spacing, typography, motion, polish, and details. Fluency in modern JavaScript/TypeScript, Next, React, CSS systems, and component architecture. Experience collaborating closely with designers throughout the entire product development process. Ability to prototype quickly and translate ambiguous ideas into tangible interfaces. Deep understanding of accessibility (WCAG) and web performance considerations. A 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.

Design, build, and maintain our core design system, including components, tokens, interaction patterns, and documentation. Develop scalable UI frameworks that empower engineers to ship consistent, consumer-grade experiences quickly. Partner directly with product designers to translate UI/UX patterns into reusable, production-ready components. Prototype and experiment rapidly, validating concepts before they become part of the system. Lead frontend best practices across accessibility, performance, animation, layout, and responsiveness. Improve UI consistency and reduce regressions through systematic design, strong abstraction, and thoughtful tooling. Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate design system components into workflows and codebases. Create documentation, guidelines, and governance processes that help teams adopt and extend the system effectively. Raise the overall quality bar for visual polish, interaction fidelity, and frontend craft across the company.