Design Engineer

Firecrawl•San Francisco, CA

7d•$160,000 - $240,000•Hybrid

About The Position

You'll own the look, feel, and experience of Firecrawl across our entire platform — from the core product UI to docs, playgrounds, and marketing pages. You take ideas from rough sketches to production-ready pages, and you ship them fast. If you care about motion, precision, and performance, you'll thrive here. Firecrawl is the easiest way to extract data from the web. Developers use us to reliably convert URLs into LLM-ready markdown or structured data with a single API call. In just a year, we've hit 8 figures in ARR and 100k+ GitHub stars by building the fastest way for developers to get LLM-ready data. We're a small, fast-moving, technical team building essential infrastructure super-intelligence will use to gather data on the web. We ship fast and deep.

Requirements

A builder with a sharp eye and obsessive attention to motion, interaction, and polish.
You go from concept to finished product independently. You don't wait for a spec to be perfect — you ship, iterate, and make things better every day. You've worked in fast environments before and you like it that way.
Strong with Next.js, Tailwind, and Framer Motion. These are our core stack. You don't need to be an expert in all three on day one, but you should be dangerous in at least two and excited to go deep on the third.
Obsessed with developer experience. Our users are developers. You understand that great design in a dev tools context means clarity, speed, and zero friction — not flashy gimmicks.
You ship live projects with real users. Portfolio pieces are fine. But we want to see things people actually use — not just Dribbble shots that never saw production.
Backgrounds that often do well: Design engineers at developer tools companies, frontend engineers with strong design instincts, designers who code and ship their own work, or indie builders who've launched products end-to-end.
US Citizenship/Visa required

Responsibilities

Build beautiful, fast UIs using Next.js, Tailwind, and Framer Motion
Create and optimize product pages and interactive playgrounds
Maintain and scale our internal design system across all surfaces
Own UX and polish across marketing, docs, and app interfaces
Collaborate directly with founders to ship high-impact features
Lead proof-of-concept work for new ideas and experiences

Benefits

Salary that makes sense — $150,000–$200,000/year (SF, U.S.-based), based on impact, not tenure
Own a piece — Up to 0.1% equity in what you're helping build
Generous PTO — 15 days mandatory, anything after 24 days, just ask (holidays excluded); take the time you need to recharge
Parental leave — 12 weeks fully paid, for moms and dads
Wellness stipend — $100/month for the gym, therapy, massages, or whatever keeps you human
Learning & Development — Expense up to $1,000/year toward anything that helps you grow professionally
Team offsites — A change of scenery, minus the trust falls
Sabbatical — 3 paid months off after 4 years, do something fun and new
Full coverage, no red tape — Medical, dental, and vision (100% for employees, 50% for spouse/kids) — no weird loopholes, just care that works
Life & Disability insurance — Employer-paid short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance — coverage for life's curveballs
Supplemental options — Optional accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and voluntary life insurance for extra peace of mind
Doctegrity telehealth — Talk to a doctor from your couch
401(k) plan — Retirement might be a ways off, but future-you will thank you
Pre-tax benefits — Access to FSAs and commuter benefits (US-only) to help your wallet out a bit
Pet insurance — Because fur babies are family too
SF HQ perks — Snacks, drinks, team lunches, intense ping pong, and peak startup energy
E-Bike transportation — A loaner electric bike to get you around the city, on us