Founding Design Engineer | CodeSpeak

The role

You will design and build the visual interfaces for a new program model. You will create prototypes and ship production-ready features for CLI, web, and future platforms.

What you will do

• Own how people interact with CodeSpeak in the CLI, web and future platforms
• Design interfaces, build prototypes, and decide on UX
• Harden prototypes to hold up on real data with care for performance and quality
• Ship features to production without help from the rest of the team
• Find a way to visualise CodeSpeak's new, higher-level program model
• Work directly with the founder and engineering team to turn ideas into product experiences
• Take part in design meetings
• Explain and defend design decisions
• Find tasks and clarify requirements without waiting for a brief

Required qualifications

• Can design an interface, prototype it and ship it to production on your own
• Strong design taste in UX, interaction design, information architecture and visual hierarchy
• Portfolio showing ability to make complex information or complex data models easy to read
• Solid computer science and software engineering fundamentals
• TypeScript
• Deep experience building production apps with modern UI frameworks such as React
• At least 3 years of delivering production software
• Understand the problems of engineers
• Curious and self-directed
• Actively improve workflow with AI-powered coding tools
• Can explain reasoning for design choices
• Speak Russian

Nice to have

• Background as a frontend engineer with good taste
• Experience with complex data visualisation
• Some sense of what an early-stage startup is like

Benefits

• UK contract with a pension and medical insurance
• Autonomy

About the company

CodeSpeak is building a program model that sits one level above code to help people see how a program works and changes over time. It was founded by Andrey Breslav, the creator of Kotlin.