Design Engineer

The Mission:

We are currently seeking a Design Engineer to join the Design team at Typeface!

Core Responsibilities:

• Work in between the design team and the front-end team to craft new high-quality user experiences. You’ll help bridge some of the gaps between what the design team envisions and what gets shipped into our product with a strong focused on the details to make our user experience A+ and delight our customers.
• Help validate or discard hypotheses by testing new designs and concepts with high-fidelity prototypes
• Help set up and maintain our design system working with our design and front-end team.
• Present work to peers, product teams and executive leadership/stakeholder
• Conceive, prototype, and iterate on new high-quality user experiences.
• Quickly bring new ideas to life through functional UI’s and prototypes.
• Help drive the design process with engineering teams to ship these new products to users.

Minimum Qualifications:

• You’re passionate (almost obsessive) about your craft and sweat the details until what you ship is A+, delighting our customers
• You’re self-reliant and can independently drive a project working closely with your XFN partners
• You’re adaptable and able to comfortably context-switch between multiple projects
• Great design eye and taste
• Solid understanding and knowledge of some design principles and on how to build experiences that span mobile and desktop browsers and native platforms
• Solid understanding and knowledge of motion design, and you don’t shy away from using it to build delightful user experiences.
• BS/BA in a technical field such as CS or equivalent years of experience
• 3+ years of software engineering experience (HTML/CSS, Javascript and all the recent technologies) shipping software products
• 3+ years of experience shipping software products
• Experience in developing and designing high-quality user experiences for responsive web products
• Experience in full lifecycle of design and development
• Experience with front-end technologies and prototyping tools, including Figma, PHP, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript frameworks (e.g., React, React Native, NodeJS)
• A solid portfolio of things you’ve designed and/or built across a range of platforms, including native and web-based application

Preferred Qualifications:

• You’re also a world class designer
• You’re also great at motion design
• Prior experience working in a start-up environment
• Prior experience working in the Gen AI space