Design Engineer, Contract
Ambrook
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About The Position
Ambrook is seeking a Design Engineer, on a contract basis, to join their world-class team. This role will help drive technical decisions and influence product direction, with the goal of making agricultural and industrial businesses more resilient and profitable. The position involves owning product craft, design systems, user experience, and technical implementation. This contract role is open to part-time/freelance arrangements and US-based or international talent.
Requirements
- 3+ years building high-quality web and mobile experiences
- Design system ownership: You've built or worked extensively with component libraries and understand both the technical and human challenges
- Strong design instincts: You can spot when something feels off in a UI and create high-fidelity prototypes in Figma
- Advanced frontend skills: Clean, performant code with solid grasp of data structures, async programming, and modern development workflows
- Mission-driven: Excited to solve real problems for people who work the land and help family-run businesses become more profitable and resilient
- Comfortable with ambiguity: You thrive when balancing user needs, business requirements, and technical constraints to create elegant solutions
- Collaborative by nature: Sitting at the center of design and engineering, you work well across disciplines to get things done
Nice To Haves
- Experience at fast-moving startups
- Building financial products
- Working with React, TypeScript, React Native, and Next.js
Responsibilities
- Grow our design system — Build and evolve component libraries, interaction patterns, and design tokens that work seamlessly across web and mobile platforms
- Ship beautiful, functional experiences — Design and build user-facing features from concept to production, translating complex agricultural finance workflows into interfaces that feel natural for ranchers and farmers
- Champion product craft — Establish quality standards and processes that ensure every feature we ship solves real problems elegantly
- Scale our frontend architecture — Contribute to improving design system infrastructure, development workflows, and tooling as we grow
- Collaborate across disciplines — Work with design on visual standards, product on feature requirements, and engineering on technical architecture
Benefits
- For employee benefits, see the full-time version of this role.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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