General Employee
Design Engineer
$150K–$190K
San Francisco · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
- Experience
- No specific number of years required; quality of work matters more than years of experience.
About the job
Own design in code and build polished, accessible production experiences across the marketing site, onboarding, and customer-facing product surfaces.
What you'll do
- Build responsive product experiences and translate ambiguous direction into clear flows, interface copy, and production-ready interactions.
- Own experience states, shared components, design tokens, and motion across product surfaces.
- Verify work across breakpoints and protect it with focused Playwright and visual-regression coverage.
What they ask for
- Portfolio demonstrating exceptional craft in real, shipped interfaces.
- Strong React, TypeScript, CSS, responsive-layout, and component-system skills.
- Strong visual and product judgment, including typography, spacing, hierarchy, interaction timing, accessibility, and interface copy.
- Ability to move from design judgment to implementation, iterate on feedback, and explain decisions with concrete reasoning.
Pay
$150K – $190K (base salary)
Tools
React, Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Playwright
AI focus
Use coding, design, and research agents in daily work; exercise judgment about when to use AI tools, inspect underlying systems, and verify results.
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