Staff Design Engineer

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Own the quality bar for user experience across the Render product — identify, design, and ship interface improvements end-to-end
• ▹Drive design-led projects with full autonomy — the kind of polish and interaction quality that typically gets deprioritized in an engineering backlog but defines whether a product feels good to use
• ▹Ship production features as a full contributor to the codebase, working in the React/TypeScript frontend and collaborating with backend engineers
• ▹Bridge design and engineering — partner directly with product designers and engineers, consult on feasibility, and prototype in code where it matters
• ▹Elevate craft standards across the team through code review and design feedback — accessibility, performance, and animation polish
• ▹Shape and evolve the shared design system and component architecture
• ▹Collaborate with product, design, and engineering leadership on roadmap priorities

Requirements

• ▹8+ years of professional experience shipping software products, with significant time at the intersection of design and frontend engineering
• ▹Exceptional taste and craft — an eye for detail on typography, spacing, motion, color, and interaction feedback
• ▹Production-grade frontend engineering skills — deep fluency in React, TypeScript, CSS, and modern web platform APIs
• ▹Ability to design independently — running a design process from problem framing through high-fidelity execution, comfortable in Figma or directly in code
• ▹Experience working in high-fidelity, close to the final medium — prototyping and iterating in the browser, not in slides

Nice to have

• ▹Experience building developer tools, cloud platforms, or infrastructure products where UX is a competitive advantage
• ▹Track record of open-source contributions, design essays, or creative side projects that demonstrate craft and point of view
• ▹Experience with animation and interaction design — spring physics, gesture handling, transitions that feel physical and intentional
• ▹Experience building or significantly contributing to a design system at scale
• ▹Familiarity with modern tooling for software build and deploy processes
• ▹Experience using AI coding agents to accelerate delivery

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹4 weeks of paid vacation
• ▹14 weeks of fully paid parental leave
• ▹Long-term disability, life insurance, and 401(k) plans
• ▹100% employer-paid medical coverage and 99% employer-paid dental and vision coverage (employee + one dependent)
• ▹FSA and HSA options
• ▹Monthly lifestyle stipend for wellness, mental health, and hobbies
• ▹Monthly cell phone and internet subsidy
• ▹Commuter benefits (Bay Area) and home office stipend for remote employees
• ▹Continuous learning benefits and support

About the company

Render builds the modern cloud platform for developers creating AI-native, full-stack, multi-service applications, used by more than 6 million developers worldwide. In February 2026 the company closed an additional $100M Series C round, bringing total funding to $257M, to accelerate its vision of cloud infrastructure that is both powerful and intuitive.