Staff Design Engineer
$300,000–$350,000 year
On-siteSan Francisco, California, United States
Job Summary
Design and build high-fidelity, polished interfaces that raise the bar for frontend craft, interaction design, motion, and visual detail. Partner closely with product and engineering to turn rough ideas into shippable experiences, making sound architectural decisions for frontend systems that scale. Mentor other engineers on design sensibility and frontend craft while growing into broader product ownership by understanding customer needs and business context. Ship genuinely complex frontend components with real visual and interaction craft, operating autonomously to make good judgment calls with limited direction.
Required Qualifications
- 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 SolidJS
- A 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
Desired Qualifications
- 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
Hiring someone like this?
Get your role in front of qualified candidates on Sorce.