Staff / Principal Design Engineer (Web & Brand)

Lovable; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Lovable is seeking exceptional senior Design Engineers in the United States who blend frontend fundamentals with craft and interaction design. You will work closely with design and marketing to deliver world-class web content that empowers creators and builders.

The role emphasizes building landing pages, high-performance interactions, and scalable UI patterns, with a strong eye for accessibility and polish. Join a mission-driven, fast-moving team redefining how the web is built.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience shipping web experiences users genuinely love.
• Portfolio demonstrates landing pages and advanced web interactions.
• Strong understanding of modern frontend systems including React architecture, state management, performance, accessibility.

Responsibilities

• Own and elevate landing pages and web experiences.
• Build landing pages and interactive components, collaborating with designers.
• Implement web interactions in React/TypeScript with emphasis on performance and cross-browser consistency.
• Lead front-end execution and ship innovative interaction patterns and micro-animations.
• Collaborate with marketing to share Lovable with the world.
• Iterate on visuals with designers and translate explorations into scalable web implementations.
• Create reusable components that enable creativity across product and marketing teams.
• Reinvent how teams build for the web.

Skills

Frontend fundamentals

Portfolio showcase

Trade-off decisions

React architecture

Performance & accessibility

WebGL exploration

Job description

TL;DR - We're seeking exceptional experienced Design Engineers who combine strong frontend engineering fundamentals with a sharp eye for craft and interaction design. You'll work closely with design and marketing to build world-class web content helping empower the next generation of creators and builders.

Why Lovable?

Lovable lets anyone and everyone build software with any language. From solopreneurs to Fortune 100 teams, millions of people use Lovable to transform raw ideas into real products - fast. We are at the forefront of a foundational shift in software creation, which means you have an unprecedented opportunity to change the way the digital world works. Lovable-built applications and websites are visited hundreds of millions of times a month, and our enterprise footprint is compounding fast. And we're just getting started.

We're a small, talent-dense team building a generation-defining company from Stockholm. We value extreme ownership, high velocity, and low-ego collaboration. We seek out people who care deeply, ship fast, and are eager to make a dent in the world.

What we’re looking for

• 10+ years of years experience, shipping web experiences users genuinely love

• Portfolio demonstrating landing pages and advanced web interactions (if you don't have a portfolio of landing pages - check out our other roles)

• Ability to make smart trade-offs between speed and polish, knowing when to ship and when to refine

• Strong fundamental understanding of modern frontend systems - React architecture, state management, performance, accessibility, and scalable UI patterns. If your strengths lean more visual than technical, check out our Product Designer roles instead.

• Experience translating scrappy explorations into production-ready experiences

• Strong design sense with an eye for detail, accessibility, and usability

• Ideally - you push the boundaries of the web with technologies like WebGL

What you’ll do

In one sentence: Own and elevate landing pages and web experiences that help share Lovable with the world.

• Build landing pages that delight, also designing interactions or pairing closely with designers

• Implement web interactions in React/TypeScript with obsessive attention to performance, responsiveness, and cross-browser consistency

• Drive front-end execution - pioneering new interaction patterns, micro-animations, and delightful details that elevate the entire experience

• Collaborate with marketing, helping share Lovable with the world

• Explore and iterate on visual designs with designers, translating explorations into scalable, web-native implementations

• Build and maintain reusable components that enhance consistency while enabling creativity across both product and marketing

• Reinvent how teams build for the web

Our tech stack

We're building with tools that both humans and AI love:

• Frontend: React, Tailwind

• Backend: Golang and Rust

• Cloud: Cloudflare, GCP, AWS, Many LLM providers

• DevOps & Tooling: Github Actions, Grafana, OTEL, , infra-as-code (Terraform)

And always on the lookout for what's next!