Redpanda
Senior Design Engineer
Redpanda
$210k - $258k
US, Canada, UK (Remote)
React
Typescript
NextJS

Senior Design Engineer

Overview

Redpanda is building the streaming data platform for developers, evolving streaming beyond the Apache Kafka protocol into a unified engine of record.

Job Description

Redpanda is a company focused on building a streaming data platform for developers, funded by premier investors including GV and Lightspeed. The platform offers a reduction in complexity, fast performance, onboard Wasm transforms, and transparent tiered storage.

Responsibilities

  • - Gather product requirements and lead the design process from ideation to polished user experiences
  • - Collaborate closely with designers, frontend engineers, and product managers to create high-quality product implementations
  • - Evolve the internal design system, ensuring consistency and enabling peers to contribute efficiently
  • - Mentor and support peer engineers fostering quality and continuous improvement
  • - Lead technical implementations and product efforts involving multiple engineers
  • - Work on products that are used by thousands of customers and users on a daily basis

Required Skills

  • - A minimum of 7 years of relevant experience in design engineering, frontend development, or a related field
  • - Strong programming and frontend engineering skills, including deep knowledge of modern web technologies (React, Typescript, NextJS)
  • - Experience with AI productivity tool likes Figma''s MCP for generating code from design mocks
  • - Great design skills and the ability to implement ideas and work alongside other principal backend engineers to deliver an end-to-end experience
  • - Previous experience collaborating closely with marketing, design, and product teams, ideally within SaaS or technology-driven environments
  • - Great project management skills
  • - Experience translating product opportunities and customer needs into visually appealing and user-friendly interfaces
  • - Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a keen eye for detail and usability
  • - A passion for crafting polished experiences, emphasizing accessibility, readability, and performance
  • - Experience or desire to work in fast moving 100% distributed team

Benefits

  • - Join a fast-moving, 100% remote organization
  • - Work with team members around the globe
  • - Culture based on trust, transparency, communication, and kindness

About the company

The Kafka-compatible streaming data platform built for data-intensive applications. Connect anything with 260 connectors, process in real time with built-in transformations, and optimize costs with tiered storage.


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