Design Engineer - Editor Team

Rive; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 130,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic tech company seeks a Design Engineer to innovate tools for designers and developers. The position offers a hybrid work model from London or remote options across North America. Responsibilities include shaping user workflows and improving existing tools. Ideal candidates have UI experience, design tool knowledge, and a passion for user experience. Competitive salary of $175-$200k, along with comprehensive benefits.

Benefits

Remote work environment

Health, dental, and vision coverage

Stock options

Qualifications

• Experience as a Designer who can code or an Engineer who can design.
• Prior UI experience with a complex product.
• Passionate about delivering exceptional user experiences.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to bringing new features to the Rive Editor.
• Iterate on existing tools to improve user experience.
• Own implementation of features from concept to production.

Skills

UI experience

Dart/Flutter knowledge

Experience with design tools like Figma

Self-management

Startup experience

Job description

Overview

Rive is a new way to build production-ready UI and graphics with rich interactivity and state-driven animation. We're on a mission to make hard-coded graphics a thing of the past with a new general-purpose graphics format for all types of software and UI. Rive empowers teams to iterate faster and build better products. We have seen tremendous organic growth, with innovative customers including tech giants, game studios, consumer apps with millions of users, and even Rive pixels in space.

Rive is looking for an experienced Design Engineer to join our team. As a new type of design tool, there is a lot of opportunity to define and shape entirely new tools and ways of working. We have unique and complex problems to solve. This is an exciting opportunity to create tools for other designers while being creative in new ways, contributing to new and existing features, and helping define our design system and processes as we grow.

What you'll do

• Contribute to bringing new features to the Rive Editor — shaping the tools our users interact with daily.
• Iterate on existing tools to expand their feature set and improve the user experience.
• Work alongside software engineers to define and implement how a feature is presented and interacted with by the user.
• Define user workflows that simplify complex tasks, while adhering to our existing patterns.
• Own the implementation of features from concept to production. Implement the UI while the engineering team implements the API and infrastructure.
• Contribute to the development of a formal design system and general design processes as we scale.

What you will bring

• The skills of an experienced Designer who can code, or an Engineer who can design.
• Must have prior UI experience with a complex product (a design or engineering product is highly desirable).
• Experienced with UI frameworks across any format or language, with a willingness to transfer those skills to Dart/Flutter.
• Passionate about delivering exceptional user experiences, particularly in the context of designer/developer tools.
• Ability to self-manage, with prior experience seeing projects and features through from conception to implementation.
• Experience with modern product design tools, such as Figma.
• Ideally some familiarity or experience with Rive.
• Prior experience working in a startup or small nimble team.

Location

This role is ideally based in San Francisco (hybrid), but we're open to exceptional candidates across North America (remote) and London, UK (hybrid).

The successful candidate will be required to provide evidence of their right to work in the U.K. or U.S. prior to commencing employment. We are unable to sponsor or transfer a U.S. employment Visa at this time.

Benefits

Compensation and benefits: We offer a remote work environment, comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage as well as stock options. Salary range: $175-$200k. Compensation may depend on the level of experience and geographic location.

At Rive, we are a global group of passionate designers and developers who believe in transparency, failing fast, quick iteration, and experimentation. We aim to build a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone feels supported.

We have an incredible opportunity to change the world of interactive content creation. Help us accelerate the design industry's transition to Rive!

A real human will read your resume, cover letter, answers to the application questions and review your portfolio so please take a minute and tell us more about you!