Senior Design Engineer

Summary

Join Perspective as a Senior Design Engineer and contribute to the growth of our innovative marketing platform. You will be responsible for designing and building user-facing features, translating designs into functional code using React, TypeScript, and other modern technologies. Collaborate with designers and engineers to ensure a seamless user experience. This role requires 5+ years of front-end development experience with a strong UX/UI focus. We offer a fully remote work environment, opportunities for personal and professional growth, top-tier equipment, and a supportive team culture. We are a fast-growing, bootstrapped company with a commitment to quality and impact.

Requirements

• You have 5+ years of experience in front-end development, with a strong focus on UX/UI design, ideally in a SaaS environment (marketing software, website builders, etc.)
• You have a solid understanding of design principles, UX best practices, and how to translate designs into functional code using front-end technologies such as React, TypeScript, and CSS frameworks
• You are proficient in designing reusable React components and hooks that are scalable and maintainable
• You have a keen eye for aesthetics and are passionate about creating delightful and accessible user interfaces that enhance the user experience
• You are comfortable collaborating with designers to ensure the UI aligns with the intended user experience and meets high design standards
• You have experience with state management frameworks such as Redux, ensuring smooth and consistent interactions across the app
• You are experienced with front-end testing frameworks (Jest, Cypress) and believe in writing tested code
• You are fluent in English (both written and verbal), and proficiency in German is a plus

Responsibilities

• Design and build beautiful, user-friendly, and scalable UI components that enhance the user experience for our platform
• Translate high-fidelity designs into interactive, functional code using React, TypeScript, and modern front-end technologies
• Continuously improve the usability, performance, and aesthetics of the application by gathering feedback, conducting user research, and iterating on design
• Partner with designers to ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs, helping shape and implement product features from concept to final product
• Share insights and knowledge with engineers and designers to promote best practices in design and front-end development
• Improve application performance by profiling, optimizing, and monitoring UI to ensure fast load times and smooth interactions

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Next.js, Node.js, or Svelte is a plus, but not required
• Familiarity with TailwindCSS or other utility-first CSS frameworks is a plus

Benefits

• Remote & Freedom | We strongly believe that every work environment needs to be ideal and fitted to the person. For this very reason, all our team members work remotely – in their own much needed way. That’s how we can ensure that all our talents have much freedom to create the best results possible
• Responsibility, Ownership & Impact | At Perspective, all our team members have a voice. We value every opinion and encourage all to speak their mind. Only with team effort, we can create something great. We believe in our team and therefore, give them much responsibility. Even if we fail, we learn from it, get back up and continue to succeed. It is part of the game and we know it
• Personal & Professional Growth | Your development is our priority. With our intensive onboarding, feedback talks and trainings, we foster your personal and professional development. One of our core value is “Keep Growing” which we portray in everything we do
• Best Equipment & Remote Budget | Our company is build on the USP of quality and we want to keep it that way. To keep up the quality, we only provide the best equipment to our team: For example, every new team member receives an Apple MacBook Pro for their work and a monthly remote working budget
• Team Events | We know working solely remotely can make it difficult to build a strong team spirit. However, at Perspective we focus deeply on team building by hosting various team events throughout the year. We understand the need of interaction face-to-face and strongly encourage it
• Cordial & passionate team | Last, but not least, we are the most cordial team you can imagine. We love working together, respect each other and always value each others opinions. We care deeply about our team members and are always down for a good virtual after work hangout