Front End Design Engineer

Overview

We're looking for the rare hybrid: a designer who ships production code and an engineer who owns the craft of the interface. You'll set the visual and interaction language for both our consumer-facing concierge product and our enterprise data product — and then you'll build it. The surface area ranges from high-end B2C flows that need to feel effortless and premium to dense B2B dashboards where clarity under complexity is the whole game.

Responsibilities

• Own the design system end-to-end: tokens, primitives, component library, documentation, and the patterns that keep the product coherent as we scale.
• Design and build production UI across web and mobile web for both the B2C concierge product and the B2B enterprise application.
• Partner with product and engineering on feature scoping, prototyping, and rapid iteration.
• Lead visual brand expression in the product: typography, color, motion, imagery, and the hundred small decisions that separate a premium product from a generic one.
• Own front-end performance, accessibility, and polish.
• Collaborate with marketing on the public site, landing pages, and campaign surfaces.
• Mentor engineers on UI craft and mentor designers on engineering reality.

Qualifications

• 5+ years combined experience as a designer and front-end engineer, with a portfolio that shows both sides of the practice.
• Expert command of modern front-end tooling: TypeScript, React (Next.js preferred), and the current generation of CSS (Tailwind, CSS variables, container queries, modern layout).
• Strong command of design tools (Figma primarily) and a demonstrated ability to work from sketch to ship without a separate handoff layer.
• Deep familiarity with design systems — you've built one, maintained one, or rebuilt one that was broken.
• Sharp visual instinct across typography, spacing, color, and motion — and the judgment to know when to break the grid.
• Understanding of accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA as a baseline) and performance (Core Web Vitals, bundle discipline, image handling).
• Comfort working across both consumer and enterprise surfaces.

Nice to have

• Experience designing and building for data-dense interfaces (dashboards, analytics, observability).
• Background in premium or luxury brand categories.
• Motion design or 3D/WebGL fluency.
• Experience with Framer, Webflow, or other modern design-to-production tools for marketing surfaces.
• Prior work at an early-stage startup where you owned the full design and front-end surface.