Design Engineer

About The Role

We are looking for a Design Engineer to help push the visual and interaction quality of Integrate’s product forward.

You are a designer first. Design is your craft: you have strong taste, sharp visual judgment, and a high bar for how software should look, feel, and behave. You have also developed front-end fluency because it lets you bring ideas to life directly. Code is one of the ways you explore, prototype, refine, and ship your work.

We are looking for someone who has always been building on the internet—a builder, an explorer who cannot help but experiment with what is possible on screen. You pay attention to modern interface patterns, animation libraries, rendering techniques, component systems, 3D, data visualization, and emerging interaction models. You are excited by the details that make a product feel polished, responsive, and alive.

You will work closely with the VP of Product and our product and engineering team to deliver production-quality front-end work. Increasingly, our workflow moves quickly from concept into feature branches: prompting, iterating, prototyping, and handing off front-end work that engineers can review, integrate, and move through the CI/CD pipeline.

The full-stack engineers you hand off to are responsible for performance, optimization, and pipeline readiness. Your job is to make sure what you deliver is visually excellent, interaction-rich, thoughtful, and built to the standard the product deserves.

You will report directly to the VP of Product and work in close collaboration with the product and design side of the team. This role is in person at our Ballard office in Seattle.

• Interpret high-level product briefs, product specs, and stakeholder input into thoughtful product design solutions — not just polished UI, but clear flows, interaction models, and user experiences
• Deliver production-quality front-end work directly in code—building components, interactions, and UI features that meet a high design bar
• Work in feature branches using AI-assisted workflows, prompting with text and images to develop front-end work that is ready for engineering handoff
• Collaborate closely with the VP of Product to translate design intent into implemented UI, iterating rapidly on feedback
• Own the visual and interaction quality of your work end-to-end—from the idea through to handoff
• Maintain consistency with Integrate's design system and front-end conventions across all work
• Contribute to the evolution of front-end patterns, component libraries, and design language as the product grows
• Bring a point of view—flag when something isn't right, advocate for quality, and push back when the bar isn't being met

• A background rooted in design—you came up as a designer and developed engineering skills along the way, not the other way around
• Strong front-end engineering capability: you can write clean, functional React and Tailwind without relying on others to translate your work
• A portfolio that demonstrates exceptional craft—real shipped work with visible attention to typography, spacing, motion, and interaction detail
• Experience working in fast-moving environments where shipping quickly and iterating are the norm
• Comfort working directly in code as the primary design medium—not just as a handoff artifact

• Figma—fluent in component-based design and design systems
• React—comfortable building and composing UI components
• Tailwind CSS—strong working knowledge of utility-first styling
• Cursor and AI-assisted development tools — active use of modern AI tooling as part of your workflow
• Familiarity with modern front-end development practices: version control, feature branches, and handoff for CI/CD pipelines

• Familiarity with Type Script or broader front-end architecture patterns
• A public presence — Twitter, a personal site, or open work — where your experimentation and aesthetic sensibility are visible
• Experience at an early-stage startup where the design bar was set by the people doing the work, not a style guide

You care about how things look and feel at a level most people don't. You notice when type renders differently across screens. You…