Senior Design Engineer

Summary

Join Redpanda, a company building a streaming data platform for developers, as a Design Engineer to create intuitive user experiences that empower people to connect their data, unlock insights, and create with AI. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to design and engineer solutions that make advanced technology feel seamless and human. This role involves owning an entire user experience flow, including delivering UX code, and influencing product direction end-to-end. You will also partner with key stakeholders, including the CEO, Product and Engineering leaders, to bring them along and solicit feedback as thought partners for affecting company-wide product directions for developer-led growth products.

Requirements

• 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)
• 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

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, leveraging your existing knowledge and new tools to develop improved processes for development
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience using streaming platforms such as Redpanda or Apache Kafka
• Experience working with AI tools for design or development

Benefits

• U.S. base salary range for this role is $220,000 - $258,000 (CA, NY, WA) and  $210,000 - $248,000 (other US locations)
• As a remote-first company, we strive to consider each candidate's job-related skills, location, experience, relevant education or training to determine individual base salary
• Join Redpanda if you’d enjoy being part of a fast-moving, 100% remote organization with team members around the globe and a culture based on trust, transparency, communication, and kindness