Remote Frontend Engineer & UI Designer — Build DevTools

SearchApi; Finland (MN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully Remote

Equity share

Profit sharing

Learn from the founder

Annual team retreats

Job summary

SearchApi is seeking a builder-designer hybrid who makes a developer-facing product feel premium. You design it in Figma and ship it yourself in Hotwire. If you sweat the 200ms of jank nobody else notices, and you have both the taste to design the thing and the skill to build it in production, this role is for you.

We\'re a lean, profitable, bootstrapped team. No VC pressure, no bloat. Just engineers shipping real products to real customers.

Qualifications

• Production frontend you designed and built yourself, with links to show it.
• Strong with a server-rendered, component-based stack (Rails + Hotwire strongly preferred).
• Fluent in Tailwind (or a similar utility CSS) and a real design tool like Figma.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship, not hand off. Take a feature from Figma to a merged PR: ViewComponents, Stimulus controllers, Tailwind, the whole thing.
• Own the dashboard. The logged-in experience: usage analytics, request history, billing, API keys. Make a data-dense console feel calm instead of cluttered.
• Build interactive API playgrounds. Where a developer fires a real request and watches structured JSON come back live. Make it the thing people screenshot and share.
• Own the docs and marketing experience. Keep the component system coherent, fast, and beautiful as the product grows week over week.
• Build honest data viz. Turn raw metrics into charts a developer trusts at a glance, using a consistent, semantic color system.
• Hold the line on craft. Native HTML first, Turbo Frames over client-side state, Tailwind over inline styles. Push Hotwire to its limits before reaching for a dependency.
• Clean up as you go. Tame the JavaScript bundle, kill dead CSS and one-off controllers before they pile up.
• You own the front end.

Skills

Production frontend

Rails + Hotwire

Tailwind CSS

Figma

ViewComponent

Stimulus

Tools

Turbo

Turbo Frames

Job description

SearchApi is seeking a builder-designer hybrid who makes a developer-facing product feel premium. You design it in Figma and ship it yourself in Hotwire. If you sweat the 200ms of jank nobody else notices, and you have both the taste to design the thing and the skill to build it in production, this role is for you.

We\'re a lean, profitable, bootstrapped team. No VC pressure, no bloat. Just engineers shipping real products to real customers.