Senior Design Engineer

Summary

Join StackBlitz, a company redefining web development, as a Senior Design Engineer. You will bridge the gap between design and front-end engineering, driving architectural excellence and innovation. This role requires deep front-end architectural expertise and a passion for intuitive user experiences. You'll build scalable systems, focusing on details and impactful UI improvements. Collaboration with various teams is key to translating ideas into high-performance interfaces. You will lead development of reusable components and champion modern frontend practices, mentoring team members.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in front-end development, design engineering, or a hybrid role
• Proficiency in React, TypeScript, and modern frontend architecture patterns
• Strong foundation in HTML, CSS (Tailwind), and frontend performance optimizations
• Experience leading architectural initiatives and driving technical excellence in complex web applications
• Familiarity with design tools like Figma, Sketch, or Adobe XD, and a passion for visual polish
• Experience building and maintaining design systems and component libraries
• Strong UX sensibilities, with an ability to balance aesthetics and functionality
• An eye for detail—you care about spacing, typography, animations, and micro-interactions
• Experience working in a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment

Responsibilities

• Own front-end design refinements, improving UI/UX across our site and products
• Evolve our frontend architecture, ensuring maintainability, scalability, and performance across our platform
• Drive technical excellence by identifying and reducing technical debt, establishing best practices, and implementing architectural improvements
• Implement design updates and polish interactions, ensuring a seamless user experience
• Collaborate with Product, Design, Engineering, and Marketing to translate ideas into visually compelling, high-performance interfaces
• Architect and expand our design system and component library, ensuring consistency across all user touchpoints
• Lead the development of reusable React components and establish patterns that enhance developer productivity and code maintainability
• Implement and optimize complex UI interactions, while maintaining a focus on performance, accessibility, usability, and performance, ensuring our platform remains intuitive for both technical and non-technical users
• Prototype and iterate quickly, refining designs based on feedback and data
• Champion modern frontend development practices, mentoring team members and contributing to technical decision-making
• Architect & Innovate: Lead the evolution of our frontend architecture while improving the look, feel, and usability of StackBlitz and Bolt.new to create a smoother user experience
• Bridge Design & Code: Work alongside engineers and designers to bring polished, high-quality UI components to life
• Drive Technical Excellence: Identify opportunities for architectural improvements, lead technical debt reduction initiatives, and implement scalable solutions
• Refine the User Journey: Identify and fix usability issues, improving navigation, interaction, and overall clarity
• Own Small but Meaningful Details: Whether it’s refining button states, animations, or typography, you’ll ensure a consistent and delightful experience
• Build for Users: Create solutions that align with how our users think and work with our platform
• Lead & Mentor: Champion modern frontend practices, guide architectural decisions, and help grow the technical capabilities of the team through mentorship and knowledge sharing

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with WebAssembly, Web Workers, Web Components, Remix or developer tooling

Benefits

• 100% remote company
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents (for US employees)
• Paid parental leave