Design Engineer: End-to-End Frontend & AI-Powered Tools

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We're vvd. We make tools for storytellers — world builders, writers, creators. Our goal is simple: empower people to create worlds, stories, and experiences that others can get lost in.

We're still at the beginning of our own story, and we're looking for a few people to help write the next chapters.

In a moment where "AI creative tools" are pumping out slop on one side and vicious debate on the other, we're choosing a different path: use this technology to empower human creativity and craft, not replace it.

This isn't going to be easy — but you'll actually shape something real. Something that will reach millions of people. You'll own it end-to-end, in a way that leaves a mark you can point to and say: I built that.

What you'll do:

You're a design engineer — someone who lives at the intersection of how things look and how they work. You don't just design screens; you build them. You don't just write code; you obsess over whether it feels right.

• Design and implement features end-to-end — from concept to production
• Move fast. We mean it. You're fluent with AI-powered dev tools (Cursor, Claude Code, etc.) and use them to ship at a pace that would be impossible without them
• Own the frontend experience — layout, interaction, motion, polish
• Work directly with engineering and product, iterate in hours not weeks
• Communicate directly. No corporate padding.

• Experience with Figma or similar design tools for rapid prototyping
• You care about accessibility
• You read fiction, build worlds, or create things for fun

• Strong frontend chops (React, Type Script, Next.js or similar)
• Taste. You can look at an interface and immediately feel what's working and what isn't — and you know how to fix it. Not pixel-counting, but genuine aesthetic judgment
• You can go from a rough idea to a polished, interactive implementation without waiting for a spec
• You use AI tools daily to accelerate your work — not as a crutch, but as a multiplier. You know how to prompt, iterate, and ship with them
• You understand enough about the backend to be dangerous — APIs, data flow, auth — so nothing blocks you
• You've built things with motion and interaction that felt good, not just functional