Senior UI/UX Engineer United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Redpanda Data Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 195,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company is seeking a passionate Senior UI/UX Engineer to enhance the user experience of their innovative streaming data platform. You will shape visual and interactive elements using React and TypeScript, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to build intuitive, maintainable UI components for an evolving product. If you're looking to contribute to a fast-paced, remote-first culture that values transparency and communication, consider applying today!

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience developing complex web applications with React and TypeScript.
• Strong design sensibility with attention to layout, motion, spacing, and polish.
• Deep understanding of modern front-end principles including component architecture and state management.

Responsibilities

• Build high-quality, maintainable front-end features using React and TypeScript.
• Collaborate with design and product teams to translate wireframes and prototypes into accurate UI.
• Advocate for users by raising concerns about usability, performance, or technical debt.

Skills

Accessibility

Responsive Design

Component Architecture

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:

We’re looking for a Senior UI/UX Engineer who is passionate about building polished, intuitive user interfaces that elevate the product experience. You will play a key role in shaping the visual and interactive language of our application using React and TypeScript, working closely with product, design and engineering teams. You are comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, working on prototyping to enterprise-ready features.

This is not just a coding role — we’re looking for someone who can articulate ideas clearly, challenge assumptions thoughtfully, and care deeply about how things look, feel, and behave for our end users. You will work on user flows, product features, and will also work on improving the developer experience, contributing to the new design system and ensuring that components are well documented, reusable, tested, syncing with Figma to bridge the gap between design and code, and paving the way for new ways of developing UI with automation.

You Will:

• Build high-quality, maintainable front-end features using React and TypeScript
• Collaborate with design and product teams to translate wireframes and prototypes into accurate UI
• Champion consistency in UI behavior, accessibility, and responsive design
• Contribute to and evolve our component libraries and design systems
• Identify and resolve UI/UX issues with a keen eye for visual and interaction detail
• Advocate for users by raising concerns about usability, performance, or technical debt
• Mentor junior engineers and provide technical guidance through code reviews and knowledge sharing
• Communicate design trade-offs, implementation options, and technical constraints to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

You Have:

• 5+ years of experience developing complex web applications with React and TypeScript
• A strong design sensibility — you sweat the details in layout, motion, spacing, and polish
• Deep understanding of modern front-end principles including component architecture, state management, and accessibility
• Familiarity with testing frameworks (e.g., Jest, Vitest, React Testing Library) and performance optimization strategies
• Experience collaborating with design teams and contributing to scalable design systems
• Proven ability to clearly articulate technical and visual ideas in writing and conversation
• Ability to work independently and own features from conception to deployment

Nice to Have:

• Experience working with AI tools for design or development (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Figma AI features, UI prototyping with AI, automated code generation tools)
• Experience designing wireframes & mockups in Figma (or similar tools)
• Experience using streaming platforms such as Redpanda or Apache Kafka
• Experience with microfrontend architecture (e.g: Module Federation)
• Experience with protobuf, react-query and other data fetching methodologies

U.S. base salary range for this role is $195,000 - $230,000 (CA, NY, WA) and $186,000 - $220,000 (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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