Design Engineer

We are looking for an experienced Design Engineer to join our design team in Amsterdam (fulltime, 3 days per week in-office). As a critical part of the team, you will own and shape the user experience for everything around our core products, driving innovation and ensuring quality in every interaction.

What you will be doing

• Collaborate closely with various teams to advance our user experience and design initiatives.
• Deliver pixel-perfect, high-quality user interfaces with a focus on performance and detail.
• Contribute to the implementation of scalable design systems that enhance consistency and efficiency, while elevating our design culture.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of website, dashboard, documentation and other tools and workflows that support our core products.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with designers and engineers, focusing on efficiency to ensure seamless integration between both disciplines
• Produce and maintain a component library that ensures consistency across all product touchpoints.
• Bring creative, performant, and well-executed design solutions to life, focusing on interaction, accessibility, and technical quality.
• Advocate for user-centric designs and deliver solutions that meet business needs and delight customers.

About You

You’re an engineer who deeply appreciates design and consistency. You can faithfully implement a design built in Figma, giving meaningful feedback and even making changes to the design yourself if necessary. You are a team player who enjoys figuring out solutions to complex problems. You have a feeling for design and can translate design to product. You are familiar with the latest technologies in frontend development and love to stay up to date with the latest developments.

You are detail-oriented, mindful of deadlines, and you have a high sense of responsibility. At Stream, we strive to provide the best possible product and service to our clients, and we expect the same from you!

As a member of the team, you must be excited to grow with Stream. At our core, we are a startup - you should be able to act quickly, thrive in uncertainty, and love pivoting to new technologies.

You have

• 4+ years of experience in design engineering or a related role, ideally in product-driven environments.
• Proven ability to deliver high-performance, responsive user interfaces with a strong focus on engineering efficiency and scalability.
• Expertise in frontend technologies including HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Work experience with React, TailwindCSS and the usage of APIs is beneficial.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills, with a passion for optimizing user experience through efficient, scalable code and clear collaboration across teams.

Don’t fall into all of the requirements? You don’t have to match every bullet point as long as you can grow into the role and provide value to the team.

Note: For this role, we require examples of your recent work. Please share your most impressive designs and developments from the past few years.

Our tech stack

At Stream, we use a wide collection of technologies to offer highly optimized and available features to our customers. Here is a short list of the technology that we currently use:

• React, TailwindCSS, NextJS
• HTML, (S)CSS, TypeScript

Why join Stream?

• History of success. From Amsterdam to Boulder and Techstars in-between, Stream has raised over $58.25M to build the best Chat Messaging & Activity Feed infrastructure available, with best-in-class support.
• Freedom and endless growth opportunities. As a rapidly growing startup (since 2020 we have gone from 30 to 150 employees), Stream gives you unique personal and professional growth opportunities. The opportunity of true ownership and accountability has a massive impact on your career. These are the things you can rarely experience in huge corporations.
• Be on the front line of progress and innovation. While working with cutting-edge technology, we are passionate about tackling difficult tech problems at scale and creating reusable components for them, empowering engineering teams to ship apps faster, more securely, and with a better user experience.
• They believe in us: Stream is backed by leading VC companies (Felicis Ventures, GGV Capital, 01.Advisors, Techstars, Arthur Ventures), including backers like Dick Costolo (01 Advisors, ex-CEO of Twitter), Olivier Pomel (CEO of Datadog), Tom Preston-Werner (Co-Founder of GitHub), Nicolas Dessaigne (Co-Founder of Algolia), Johnny Boufarhat (Founder and CEO of Hopin).

What we have to offer you

Stream employees enjoy some of the best benefits in the industry:

• A team of exceptional engineers
• 28 days paid time off plus paid Dutch holidays
• Company equity
• A pension scheme
• A Learning and Development budget
• NS business card or a company bike covered
• Fitness stipend
• Monthly in-office chair massages by a professional
• MacBook Pro provided
• Healthy team lunches and plenty of snacks
• A generous relocation package
• An office in the heart of Amsterdam
• The opportunity to attend or present at global conferences and meetups
• The possibility of visiting our office in Boulder, CO

Note: this list of benefits applies to Netherlands-based employees and is adjusted per your location of residence.

Our culture

Stream has a casual social culture, our team is diverse and we all have different backgrounds. Now, Stream is a team of over 130+ peers from over 35 countries across the globe.

We value transparency, aim for excellence, and support each other on our way to new victories.

Our team consists of the strongest talents worldwide, making Stream a great place to learn and improve your skills.

When it comes to software engineering, our culture is oriented towards ownership and quality: our goal is to deliver stable software.

If you are interested in becoming a part of what we do, apply now!

Stream provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

No recruiters/agencies please