Design Engineer – Railblocks

(Frontend Engineer with Strong Design Skills)

Full-time
· Remote (Europe, Canada, USA, and Latam)
· Portfolio Required

Railblocks is looking for a hybrid Design Engineer — someone who thrives at the intersection of frontend engineering and product design
. This is a hands‑on role for an engineer who loves design, or a designer who loves to ship code. You will play a core role in shaping the UX, UI, and frontend architecture of the Railblocks platform.

If you enjoy taking ideas from rough sketches → polished design → production‑ready components, and you’re excited about building elegant software for complex systems, this role is for you.

• Lead user flows, interaction patterns, information architecture, and UI visuals for new product features.
• Create high‑fidelity mockups, prototypes, and design assets using Figma (other tools also welcome).
• Work within and extend a design system: establishing component patterns, typography, layout scales, and behavior guidelines.
• Participate in user research, usability testing, and iteration cycles to refine UX decisions.

• Translate final designs into clean, modular, production-quality React code
  .
• Build reusable components, frontend logic, and responsive layouts for the Railblocks web application.
• Collaborate with backend engineers to integrate APIs and ensure smooth end‑to‑end delivery.
• Ensure high standards of accessibility, performance, and maintainability.
• Help shape the frontend architecture (state management, styling approach, component structure, build tools, etc.).
• Potential work with Convex or similar modern backend/infra frameworks.
• Work closely with product, engineering, and design partners to bring features from idea → prototype → release.
• Contribute to team discussions on product direction, user needs, and technical feasibility.
• Review code and design work, and help raise the overall bar for UX and frontend engineering within the team.
• Continually experiment, learn, and bring fresh thinking to both design and engineering practices.

You should have strong experience on both sides of the Design/Engineering spectrum
:

• Proficiency with Figma (components, prototyping, design systems).
• Understanding of UX best practices, usability principles, and accessibility guidelines.
• Ability to create prototypes that communicate interaction patterns and flows clearly.
• Proven experience building front‑end applications using React (hooks, component design, state management).
• Strong skills in HTML
  , CSS (or CSS‑in‑JS), responsive design, and core web fundamentals.
• Experience working with design systems or component libraries.
• Ability to convert design prototypes into production‑ready components.
• Familiarity with front‑end tooling (bundlers, CI/CD, etc.).

• A strong, up‑to‑date portfolio demonstrating both design work and shipped frontend interfaces.
• Excellent communication skills and collaborative mindset.
• Comfortable working in a distributed/remote environment.
• Located in Europe with eligibility to work for a European company.

• Experience with Convex or interest in modern full‑stack frameworks.
• Experience with Type Script.
• Familiarity with Storybook or similar component documentation tooling.
• Experience with animations, transitions, and micro‑interactions.
• Previous work on SaaS or complex systems interfaces.
• Knowledge of A/B testing, analytics, or user research methodologies.
• Experience integrating REST/Graph
  
  QL APIs.