Senior Design Engineer

Redpanda Data; United States; Remote; USD 210,000 - 258,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking a Design Engineer to create seamless user experiences for a cutting-edge streaming data platform. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to design intuitive solutions that empower users worldwide. With a focus on frontend engineering and design, you'll lead the development of high-quality products while mentoring peers and evolving the internal design system. Join a fully remote team that values trust and transparency, and contribute to a platform used by thousands daily. If you're passionate about crafting polished experiences and thrive in a fast-paced environment, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Remote Work

Flexible Hours

Health Insurance

Professional Development

Team Retreats

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years in design engineering or frontend development.
• Strong skills in modern web technologies like React and Typescript.

Responsibilities

• Lead design process from ideation to polished user experiences.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to create high-quality products.

Skills

Frontend Engineering

React

Typescript

NextJS

Design Skills

Communication Skills

Mentoring

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Design or Engineering

Tools

Figma

AI Productivity Tools

Job description

We are a team of doers, seasoned engineers, hackers and builders, working on the future of streaming data.

Funded by premier investors including GV and Lightspeed, Redpanda is building the streaming data platform for developers. We’re evolving streaming beyond the Apache Kafka protocol into a unified “engine of record” that delivers a categorical reduction in complexity, wicked-fast performance, onboard Wasm transforms, and transparent tiered storage that gives consumers access to both real-time and historical data from a single API.

About the Role:

Join us in building intuitive, end-to-end experiences that empower people around the world to connect their data, unlock insights, and create with AI. We're looking for someone who thrives on creating thoughtful, end-to-end user experiences that seamlessly blend function and form. In this role, you'll work closely with cross-functional teams to design and engineer solutions that make advanced technology feel seamless and human. If you’re driven by curiosity, the craft of design engineering and excited by the responsibility of owning solutions from concept through execution, we’d love to work with you.

The Design Engineer role will partner alongside other principal engineers to focus on end-to-end user experience across Redpanda’s product suite. The expectation is to own an entire user experience flow, including delivering of the UX code, as well as influence product direction end-to-end for the product you co-own. Think of this as a partnership for building end-user experience for a developer centric audience - you are the audience.

The role will also partner with key strategic stakeholders of the company, including the CEO, Product and Engineering leaders to bring them along and solicit feedback as thought partners for affecting company-wide product directions for developer-led growth products.

You Will:

• Gather product requirements and lead the design process from ideation to polished user experiences
• Collaborate closely with designers, frontend engineers, and product managers to create high-quality product implementations
• Evolve the internal design system, ensuring consistency and enabling peers to contribute efficiently, leveraging your existing knowledge and new tools to develop improved processes for development
• Mentor and support peer engineers fostering quality and continuous improvement
• Lead technical implementations and product efforts involving multiple engineers
• Work on products that are used by thousands of customers and users on a daily basis

You Have:

• A minimum of 7 years of relevant experience in design engineering, frontend development, or a related field
• Strong programming and frontend engineering skills, including deep knowledge of modern web technologies (React, Typescript, NextJS)
• Experience with AI productivity tool like Figma’s MCP for generating code from design mocks
• Great design skills and the ability to implement ideas and work alongside other principal backend engineers to deliver an end-to-end experience
• Previous experience collaborating closely with marketing, design, and product teams, ideally within SaaS or technology-driven environments
• Experience translating product opportunities and customer needs into visually appealing and user-friendly interfaces
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a keen eye for detail and usability
• A passion for crafting polished experiences, emphasizing accessibility, readability, and performance
• Experience or desire to work in fast moving 100% distributed team

Please highlight if applicable to you:

• Experience using streaming platforms such as Redpanda or Apache Kafka
• Experience working with AI tools for design or development

U.S. base salary range for this role is $220,000 - $258,000 (CA, NY, WA) and $210,000 - $248,000 (other US locations). Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. As a remote-first company, we strive to consider each candidate's job-related skills, location, experience, relevant education or training to determine individual base salary. Your talent partner will share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Redpanda is used by Fortune 1000 enterprises pushing hundreds of terabytes a day, as well as by the solo dev prototyping a React application on her laptop. Think of it as a streaming data API platform that scales with you from the smallest projects to petabytes of data distributed across the globe. Join Redpanda if you’d enjoy being part of a fast-moving, 100% remote organization with team members around the globe and a culture based on trust, transparency, communication, and kindness.

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