Design Engineer

The role

A Design Engineer will shape, design, and build high-craft product experiences end to end. This role sits at the intersection of product, design, and engineering to own user-facing surfaces from concept to implementation.

What you will do

• Design and build polished, user-facing product experiences across core surfaces of the product.
• Own features end to end, from product thinking and UX exploration through implementation and iteration.
• Use layout, interaction design, and motion to make powerful workflows feel intuitive and fast.
• Contribute to and evolve our design system, component library, and frontend patterns.
• Work closely with product, design, and engineering to turn ambiguous ideas into simple, high-quality experiences.
• Bring strong craft to the details: accessibility, performance, reliability, responsive behavior, and edge cases.
• Partner with other engineers, and when needed contribute across the stack to bring features fully across the finish line.

Required qualifications

• 2–5+ years of experience building user-facing products in high-ownership environments.
• Strong experience with TypeScript, React, Tailwind CSS, and modern frontend development.
• Experience contributing to or building a design system, component library, or reusable frontend patterns.
• A track record of owning product work end to end with limited handholding.
• Strong product intuition and the ability to make thoughtful UX decisions independently.
• Care for craft beyond the first 80%, including performance, accessibility, reliability, and visual polish.
• A systems-first mindset and interest in building durable patterns that help the whole team move faster.

Nice to have

• Experience in developer tools, technical products, or AI-native products.
• Familiarity with Next.js, TanStack Query, TanStack Table, TanStack Form, Zod, or Motion/React.
• Experience working with CMS platforms or SEO-oriented product surfaces.
• Comfort using design tools like Figma, Paper, or similar tools to explore and communicate ideas.
• Full-stack capability, especially enough backend fluency to independently unblock product work.

Benefits

• Highly competitive salary and meaningful equity
• Generous paid time off: 24 days for SF employees and 20 days globally
• $350/month wellness benefit to spend on gym, spa, equipment, or whatever keeps you at your best
• 15 days of temporary remote work flexibility per year
• 401k/RRSP match up to 6%

About the company

Gumloop is the multiplayer AI agent builder. They are a small team that has raised over $70M from investors including Benchmark, First Round Capital, Y Combinator, Nexus Ventures to scale.