Design Engineer

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San Francisco, CA, USA
In-Office
125K-165K Annually
Entry level
Professional Services • Consulting
The Role
Designs and builds production interfaces for complex workflows, translating customer feedback into polished product experiences. Owns product flows from concept through launch, collaborates directly with founders and users, creates designs, and contributes code to the production codebase. The role requires strong product design judgment, front-end engineering skills, startup experience, and on-site work five days per week.
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About the company

Our client is a fast-growing software company.

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Blend product design with front-end engineering, carrying user-facing features from early concept through production release. Partner directly with company leadership and end users to convert feedback into polished experiences for people without a technical background.

What you'll do

- Design and build production interfaces for complex, multi-step workflows so they feel simple to people without technical training.

- Join customer calls, collect usability requests first-hand and turn them into shipped improvements.

- Own new product flows from zero to one, from first concept through launch.

- Work side by side with the founders and a small team where design capacity is a key constraint.

- Produce designs in a design tool and, where possible, commit code changes directly to the codebase.


Requirements

What we're looking for

- Prior startup experience, either as a founder or as an early design engineer.

- Comfort working with TypeScript and React, along with HTML and CSS.

- Sound taste in interface and product design, grounded in a software engineering background.

- A track record of taking whole products from idea to launch.

- A portfolio showing work you personally conceived, built and released.

- Ability to work on-site five days a week.

Bonus points

- Hands-on experience committing changes to a production codebase.

- Top university background.


Benefits

Compensation and benefits

- Base salary: USD 125,000 to 165,000 per year

- Equity

Location and work model

- San Francisco, CA, United States

- On-site, 5 days per week in office

- Full-time

Skills Required

  • Prior startup experience as a founder or early design engineer
  • Comfort working with TypeScript and React
  • Experience with HTML and CSS
  • Software engineering background with strong interface and product design judgment
  • Track record of taking whole products from idea to launch
  • Portfolio showing personally conceived, built, and released work
  • Ability to work on-site five days per week in San Francisco
  • Hands-on experience committing changes to a production codebase
  • Top university background
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The Company
28 Employees
Year Founded: 2021

What We Do

Raydar is a talent acquisition and business consulting firm that connects world-class and emerging talent with growing organizations. It supports companies through team development, strategic hiring, and customized growth solutions, helping clients recruit roles such as engineers, product managers, executives, legal counsel, and quantitative traders. Raydar focuses on understanding each organization’s needs, culture, and long-term goals to build high-impact teams.

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