Design Engineer Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• You're a designer who codes or an engineer with exceptional taste–either way, you can take an idea from sketch to shipped product without waiting on anyone else.
• You build things for fun.
• You've done this before, and you have a portfolio or shipped work that shows it.
• You care about craft at a level most people find unreasonable.
• You'll iterate on an animation curve five times.
• You'll notice when padding is 3px off.
• You have strong opinions about typography, color, and spacing–and you can articulate why something feels wrong, not just that it does.
• You understand that the best product experiences are often invisible.
• You're fast and pragmatic.
• You'd rather ship something great today than something perfect next month.
• You'd rather write a bit more code yourself than adopt a dependency.
• You're interested in the challenge of making powerful tools without compromising simplicity–and you can keep a broad set of customer perspectives in mind while doing it.
• You're excited about AI as a tool–both in the product you're designing and in your own workflow.
• You use things like Cursor or Claude Code and have opinions about how AI should show up in product interfaces.

Responsibilities

• Own the design and frontend implementation of features across web (React, Next.js), desktop (Electron, Swift), and mobile (React Native)
• Deeply understand customer problems and find elegant ways to solve them–Circleback deals in dense, conversational information, and making that feel effortless to navigate is a genuinely hard design problem
• Craft interactions, animations, and transitions that make the product feel fast and alive
• Build and evolve our design system–components, patterns, tokens–so quality scales as we ship faster
• Sweat the details other people skip: loading states, empty states, error states, keyboard shortcuts, hover treatments, the feel of a drag interaction
• Iterate quickly on experiments around onboarding, activation, and education
• Work directly with engineers and founders on product direction–you'll shape what we build, not just how it looks
• Prototype new ideas quickly in code, not just mockups–the best way to evaluate an interaction is to use it

Benefits

• Free lunch and dinners
• Competitive salary and equity
• Flexible health coverage
• 401K matching