Design Engineer

Happyrobot Inc. • San Francisco, CA

17d

About The Position

As a Design Engineer at HappyRobot, you’ll sit at the intersection of product design and frontend engineering. You’ll own how our product looks, feels, and behaves from early concepts through polished, production-ready interfaces.
You’ll collaborate closely with product, design, and engineering to shape the product in real time and ship quickly.
If you enjoy building beautiful, intuitive interfaces and sweating details, but also care deeply about performance, maintainability, and real users then this role is for you.

Requirements

• Strong frontend engineering skills (TypeScript, React, Next.js)
• Excellent visual and interaction design taste. You care about spacing, motion, hierarchy, and usability
• Experience turning designs into real, shippable product
• Product-minded: you think about user impact, tradeoffs, and outcomes
• Comfortable working in ambiguity and making decisions without perfect specs

Nice To Haves

• Experience building design systems or reusable UI components
• Motion, animation, or interaction-heavy UI experience
• Startup experience or comfort in fast-changing environments
• experience working closely with designers or having a design background yourself

Responsibilities

• Design and build high-quality, user-facing product experiences end-to-end
• Translate product ideas and UX concepts into clean, production-ready frontend code
• Own UI patterns, interaction design, and visual polish across the product
• Collaborate closely with engineers, designers, and product managers in tight feedback loops
• Rapidly prototype, iterate, and ship — balancing speed with craft
• Help evolve our design system and frontend architecture as the product scales

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 51-100 employees