Senior Product Design Engineer

Cortex is an AI-powered Internal Developer Portal that helps engineering teams ship better software faster. They are seeking a Senior Product Design Engineer to bridge the design and frontend engineering teams, owning the design system and contributing to feature development while ensuring a world-class user experience.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to raising the design bar at Cortex: You’ll work with the design team to push the boundaries of our design and user experience. You are relentless about crafting a delightful experience that we can all be proud of
• Continuous improvement and animation: You’ll also look for opportunities to ensure no part of the product falls below standard best practices. That means reducing papercuts, iterating on clunky user experiences, polishing microinteractions, and adding appropriate UI animation to guide users to success
• Design system ownership: You’ll own the design system end-to-end, in both Figma and code. You’ll work closely with other designers who are consuming components in figma, and developers consuming components in code
• Prototype: You will assist the design team, product management team, and engineering teams in rapid prototyping when a high fidelity prototype is the best tool to illustrate functionality
• Ship feature additions and fixes: You’ll be asked to design and ship UI-heavy features across the product surface area, ensuring components are performant and well-tested while collaborating with product management, frontend, and backend developers when necessary
• Attention to detail: One of your core responsibilities is to maintain a strong attention to detail. You’ll be asked to regularly identify areas of inconsistency and incompleteness, and proactively work to make our product feel polished and professional

Requirements:

• 5-7+ years working at the intersection of design and code in a product-led company
• Startup experience is highly desirable, as we move very quickly
• Bonus points for experience with developer tools or enterprise SaaS companies
• Either owned or been a major contributor to a design system before
• Ideally, you've had to see the impact of your designs over a larger scale or significant period of time
• Deep experience with React, Typescript, and Tailwind is preferred
• We are open to talented candidates who haven't had the opportunity to work with this stack before, but will need to understand how quickly you can ramp up
• You can point to a portfolio of work (or github profile) that clearly demonstrates your skill and attention to detail in both product design and frontend development
• Passionate about creating beautiful, useful, and usable interfaces guided by user feedback
• You prioritize user feedback when making decisions, but are still comfortable making choices without it