Design Engineer

About Us

Circle is building the world's leading all-in-one platform for online communities. We make it possible for creators, coaches, educators, and businesses to bring together their audience with engaging discussions, live streams, events, chat, courses, and payments — all in one place, all under their own brand.

We're proud to be a fully remote company of around 200 (and growing) team members from 30+ countries around the world. We seek exceptional individuals around the world, set them up to do the best work of their lives, and in turn, create a meaningful impact in their own lives. We don't track hours, but we do manage for high expectations very closely.

We collaborate across time zones, are highly async, and like to document a lot.

Twice a year, we bring the whole company together in beautiful places around the world for our company offsites. So far, we've hosted offsites in Turkey, Portugal, Mexico, Thailand, Colombia, Italy, Ireland, and more, with still more to come!

Check out our Careers page for more about working at Circle.

We're looking for a Design Engineer: you'll work as design engineer and front-end prototyper, paired 1:1 with product designers to turn ideas into working prototypes in hours, not weeks. Our goal is simple: move from sharing Figma mockups to sharing real, clickable prototypes as our default design artifact.

You'll bring refined product designs to life—building high-fidelity, functional implementations that bridge design intent and engineering execution. Your work enables faster validation, clearer stakeholder communication, and smoother handoff to engineering, with reusable implementations that raise the quality bar for production builds.

Design owns the output. You'll iterate with designers until the implementation matches intent, then deploy to preview environments for feedback and review. This role requires fluency with AI coding tools. We expect you to use tools like Cursor and Claude Code as your primary way of building, generating fast starting points and refining them with care.

• Work daily in tight 1:1 pairing with a product designer, turning Figma concepts into live prototypes in real time
• Build prototypes in the same technologies as our production front-end (React/Next.js/Type Script/Tailwind) using Cursor and Claude Code
• Translate multi-screen Figma flows into working code, collaborating directly with designers throughout iteration
• Iterate quickly through critique loops—prototypes are the primary artifact we use to communicate product ideas
• Leverage the design system as your foundation—building new components only when necessary
• Deploy to preview environments for async review, feedback, and stakeholder alignment
• Offer input on technical feasibility and complexity as flows are finalized
• Manage multiple work streams, balancing major implementations with quick iteration or refinement needs
• Collaborate with the product design org while sitting operationally close to the Design Systems and front-end engineering team

• Strong alignment with our values, find our values on our career page if you haven't read up on them yet.
• You are proficient in English (spoken, written, and reading) at a CEFR Level C2 / ILR Level 5.

• Hands-on experience using AI coding tools (Cursor and Claude Code) as your primary way of building front-end prototypes
• You embrace "vibe coding": using AI to generate fast starting points, then refining with precision and care
• Comfortable iterating quickly with AI assistance while maintaining high visual and functional quality standards

• 3+ years of experience building web interfaces with React, modern JavaScript, and component-based architecture
• Strong experience with React, Type Script, Next.js, and Tailwind (or very similar modern front-end stack)
• Strong grasp of React fundamentals (functional components, hooks, props/state) and layout systems (Flexbox, Grid)
• Experience working with Tailwind CSS and libraries like Radix, Headless UI, or shadcn/ui
• Comfortable working in a real production-style codebase
• Familiarity with Git workflows and preview deployments (e.g.…