Design Engineer

October 20, 2026

Junior

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Includes on-call duty

Description

This position combines design and engineering on a Talent Acquisition SaaS platform serving over 100,000 weekly active users and millions of candidates per week. The Design Engineer tackles the hardest design problems: expanding and enhancing the in-house design system, redesigning product surfaces, and consulting product engineers on bespoke design work. Projects run end-to-end with minimal process, from customer conversations and wireframes to shipped code, at Mid and Senior levels.

Responsibilities

Talk with customers and redesign the mobile web app experience
Wireframe new flows and implement the design system for them
Turn wireframes into polished UI using the in-house design system
Build flexible composable components that power setup wizards across the product
Expand and enhance the design system so engineers build consistent UI
Consult product engineers on bespoke design work and information hierarchy
Research problems, write product specs, and implement solutions end-to-end
Shape the UI and UX of a complex product used at scale
Set the bar for visual design and improve it with each feature
Investigate customer issues distributed across the team including senior ICs

Requirements

2+ years of continuous experience as an engineer or designer, internships excluded
Good proficiency in both design and engineering disciplines
Exceptional proficiency in the discipline practiced full-time
Experience designing products and shipping code to hundreds of users
Excellent taste and execution in visual design

Conditions

Full-time employment with regular working hours
Minimal process with ownership over decisions normally made by product and design
Focus time held sacred with deliberate communication across time zones
Investment in tools and abstractions that give engineers leverage
Natural collaboration through research, prototyping, and written proposals