Design Engineer - End-to-End UI/UX & Front-End (Remote)

Checkmate; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity in the company

Medical/Dental/Vision

4 weeks PTO

401k plan

Wellness stipend

Company retreats

Remote-first culture

Job summary

Checkmate is seeking a Design Engineer to own how our consumer product and mate (B2B) look, feel, and work, from understanding the user problem to the shipped interface. You’ll use strong product judgment and real design taste to turn complex workflows into experiences that feel simple, then bring them to life in code.

Design, UX, and front-end live in one seat, so what you design is what our users get. You’ll focus on mate, our B2B product, with room to shape the consumer shopper experience

Qualifications

• You have real taste and a strong eye for type, color, and visual hierarchy, and you can articulate why something feels wrong, not just that it does
• You're a designer who codes, so you can take an idea from sketch to shipped without waiting on a handoff
• You start from the user problem, reason through the UX, and design the flow that solves it, using AI tools to move fast without dropping quality
• You communicate clearly with both the business and the developers, and you can guide a design review to a decision
• You sweat the details others skip, and you're energized by owning an experience end to end

Responsibilities

• Solve Real User Problems
• Start from the user problem: understand what a marketer is trying to do, then design the information architecture and flow that gets them there
• Own features end to end, from product thinking and UX exploration through a shipped, high-craft interface
• Turn complex, dense workflows into experiences that feel simple, obvious, and fast
• Design the Interface, Then Build It
• Design in high fidelity, then bring it to life in production front-end, so what you design is what users get
• Use AI tools and coded prototypes to explore ideas quickly, because the best way to judge an interaction is to use it
• Bring craft to the fundamentals: type, color, spacing, and visual hierarchy, and iterate in the browser with real data
• Make Complex Data Simple
• Translate dense inputs like intent signals, agent outputs, and dashboards into interfaces that are simple, scannable, and decision-oriented
• Design the moments where a marketer reviews what mate found and hits approve
• Bring structure and hierarchy to screens carrying a lot of information
• Own the Design System & Craft
• Sweat the details others skip: loading and empty states, errors, hover, and motion, the feel of an interaction
• Set and raise the bar for how our product looks, feels, and behaves
• Scale our design system and rules so patterns turn into code quickly and quality holds across every surface, even as we ship faster
• Communicate, Review & Collaborate
• Work closely with Product, Engineering, and the founders to shape what we build, not just how it looks
• Communicate clearly with both the business and the developers, through working prototypes, demos, and short written narratives
• Move quickly with a small team while keeping a clear point of view on the user
• Run design reviews: take ambiguous requirements, bring the key ideas back, guide the discussion, and gather feedback from internal stakeholders and end users

Skills

AI tools usage

Front-end development

React

TypeScript

Tailwind CSS

UX design

Information architecture

Tools

Cursor

Claude

Figma AI

Job description

Checkmate is seeking a Design Engineer to own how our consumer product and mate (B2B) look, feel, and work, from understanding the user problem to the shipped interface. You’ll use strong product judgment and real design taste to turn complex workflows into experiences that feel simple, then bring them to life in code.

Design, UX, and front-end live in one seat, so what you design is what our users get. You’ll focus on mate, our B2B product, with room to shape the consumer shopper experience