Senior Design Technologist: Prototyping at Scale

Socket.dev; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Socket.dev is seeking an experienced Design Technologist to bridge design and engineering. You will deliver production-quality design solutions and prototypes that scale, combining deep UX expertise with strong technical skills to lead as both designer and contributor.

You'll work at the intersection of design, research, and engineering—turning concepts into functional prototypes and production-ready experiences that delight customers.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of front-end technologist, engineer, or UX prototyper experience.
• Have coding samples in front end programming languages.
• Experience developing visually polished, engaging, and highly fluid UX prototypes.
• Experience collaborating with UX, Product, and technical partners.
• 6+ years of participating in the complete product development lifecycle of launched applications.

Responsibilities

• Deliver innovative design solutions that address complex UX challenges through code and technical implementation.
• Proactively identify UX problems and opportunities to improve the customer experience.
• Build high-fidelity, functional prototypes that communicate design intent and validate concepts with real interactions.
• Adapt and extend industry prototyping tools to large-scale use cases unique to our products.
• Guide future UX choices by demonstrating what's technically possible through working prototypes.
• Present design solutions and technical approaches to management and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Collaborate closely with UX designers, UX researchers, and software engineers to bring designs to life.
• Develop production-ready front-end code that meets engineering standards for performance, accessibility, and scalability.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and frameworks to advance the team's prototyping and development capabilities.
• Mentor other designers and engineers on design-technology best practices.

Skills

Front-end prototyping

UX prototyping

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

ElasticSearch

Redshift

DynamoDB

Job description

Socket.dev is seeking an experienced Design Technologist to bridge design and engineering. You will deliver production-quality design solutions and prototypes that scale, combining deep UX expertise with strong technical skills to lead as both designer and contributor.

You'll work at the intersection of design, research, and engineering—turning concepts into functional prototypes and production-ready experiences that delight customers.