Design Engineer

ABOUT THE ROLE
The Design Team owns designing, building, and evolving experiences across every surface of Aaru. As a Design Engineer, you will work with Product and Brand Designers, Platform Engineers, and Product Managers to bring those experiences to life in code.

RESPONSIBILITIES
Explore and refine product experiences in code with Product Designers

Bring Aaru’s visual identity to life with Brand Designers

Partner with Platform Engineers to ship polished, maintainable product experiences

Shape solutions with Product Managers around user needs, priorities, and technical constraints

Advance the shared design system so designers and engineers can ship better work, faster

YOU MAY BE A FIT IF
You’ve shipped products in close partnership with designers and software engineers

You can read and write front-end code, with strong interaction and visual design judgment

You can explain design and engineering tradeoffs to Product Managers

You thrive in ambiguous and novel technical domains

You ship fast and know when to slow down for polish

You communicate clearly in writing and in person

You have the courage to push back and the humility to change your mind

STRONG CANDIDATES MAY ALSO HAVE
Have built a design system for a platform or developer product

Have shipped 0→1 product surfaces in partnership with design, engineering, and product

Have brought a brand system into a working product experience