Design Engineer

(Frontend Engineer with Strong Design Skills)
Full-time · Remote (Europe, Canada, USA, and Latam) · Portfolio Required

Railblocks is looking for a hybrid Design Engineer — someone who thrives at the intersection of frontend engineering and product design. This is a hands-on role for an engineer who loves design, or a designer who loves to ship code. You will play a core role in shaping the UX, UI, and frontend architecture of the Railblocks platform.

If you enjoy taking ideas from rough sketches → polished design → production-ready components, and you’re excited about building elegant software for complex systems, this role is for you.

• Lead user flows, interaction patterns, information architecture, and UI visuals for new product features.

• Create high-fidelity mockups, prototypes, and design assets using Figma (other tools also welcome).

• Work within and extend a design system: establishing component patterns, typography, layout scales, and behavior guidelines.

• Participate in user research, usability testing, and iteration cycles to refine UX decisions.

• Translate final designs into clean, modular, production-quality React code.

• Build reusable components, frontend logic, and responsive layouts for the Railblocks web application.

• Collaborate with backend engineers to integrate APIs and ensure smooth end-to-end delivery.

• Ensure high standards of accessibility, performance, and maintainability.

• Help shape the frontend architecture (state management, styling approach, component structure, build tools, etc.).

• Potential work with Convex or similar modern backend/infra frameworks.

Collaboration & Process

• Work closely with product, engineering, and design partners to bring features from idea → prototype → release.

• Contribute to team discussions on product direction, user needs, and technical feasibility.

• Review code and design work, and help raise the overall bar for UX and frontend engineering within the team.

• Continually experiment, learn, and bring fresh thinking to both design and engineering practices.

You should have strong experience on both sides of the Design/Engineering spectrum:

• Proficiency with Figma (components, prototyping, design systems).

• Strong visual design skills (layout, typography, hierarchy, interaction design).

• Understanding of UX best practices, usability principles, and accessibility guidelines.

• Ability to create prototypes that communicate interaction patterns and flows clearly.

• Proven experience building front-end applications using React (hooks, component design, state management).

• Strong skills in HTML, CSS (or CSS-in-JS), responsive design, and core web fundamentals.

• Experience working with design systems or component libraries.

• Ability to convert design prototypes into production-ready components.

• Familiarity with front-end tooling (bundlers, CI/CD, etc.).

• A strong, up-to-date portfolio demonstrating both design work and shipped frontend interfaces.

• Excellent communication skills and collaborative mindset.

• Comfortable working in a distributed/remote environment.

• Located in Europe with eligibility to work for a European company.

• Experience with Convex or interest in modern full-stack frameworks.

• Experience with TypeScript.

• Familiarity with Storybook or similar component documentation tooling.

• Experience with animations, transitions, and micro-interactions.

• Previous work on SaaS or complex systems interfaces.

• Knowledge of A/B testing, analytics, or user research methodologies.

• Experience integrating REST/GraphQL APIs.