Senior Design Engineer

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Get to know our product, customers, and teams.
• - Familiarize yourself with our design system, component library, and front-end stack.
• - Talk to some customers to understand their needs.
• - Start contributing to the implementation and design of your first meaningful project.
• - Have taken full ownership of the design engineering work.
• - Have shipped the first project you worked on end-to-end, from design through implementation.
• - Work with your team to discover opportunities and build solutions that deliver value to our customers.
• - Be a trusted partner to both Design and Engineering, helping teams turn ambitious product ideas into polished, shippable experiences.
• - Raise the bar for interaction quality, frontend craft, accessibility, and implementation quality within your area.
• - Contribute to the evolution of our design system, shared components, and reusable patterns where they improve consistency and speed.
• - Have shipped meaningful product improvements end to end, from early exploration through production and iteration.
• - Help improve reusable patterns, tooling, and design-to-code workflows that make Design and Engineering more effective without adding unnecessary complexity.
• - Be a strong advocate for craft, customer value, and thoughtful technical judgment across RevenueCat.

Required Skills

• - Strong track record building substantial production UI and bridging design and frontend engineering in complex product environments.
• - Translate design intent into polished production experiences with a high bar for layout, typography, interaction, motion, responsiveness, accessibility, and detail.
• - Write clear, maintainable frontend code and reason well about state, component architecture, performance, testing, and edge cases.
• - Strong design judgment and make good decisions when specifications are incomplete, implementation reveals constraints, or the right solution is not obvious.
• - Think in systems, knowing when to reuse, extend, or create patterns and abstractions without introducing unnecessary complexity.
• - Make sound trade-offs between customer value, design quality, technical feasibility, scope, and risk.
• - Collaborate closely with Design and Engineering, involve the right people at the right moments, and stay responsible for quality through implementation and follow-up.
• - Communicate clearly in a remote, asynchronous environment and take ownership beyond narrow role boundaries.
• - Use modern tools, including AI-assisted development, when they help you move faster, while still being able to understand, evaluate, debug, and evolve what you ship.
• - Excited about our mission to help developers make more money.

Benefits

• - Competitive equity in a fast-growing, Series C startup backed by top-tier investors, including Y Combinator.
• - 10-year window to exercise vested equity options.
• - A fully remote environment designed around autonomy and flexibility.
• - 4-5 weeks of flexible time off annually.
• - Paid desk at a co-working space.
• - Workspace budget and continuous learning stipend.