Browserbase

Design Engineer

San Francisco

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 14 days ago

TypeScriptReactNext.jsTailwind CSSFigmaDesign SystemsShopifyCollaboration

About the role

We are excited to hire a Design Engineer to architect the surfaces and interfaces that our developers touch every day. This is a hands-on, high-impact role that blends creative design thinking with front-end engineering.
You'll partner closely with engineering, product, and our growing design team to define how a category-defining developer platform should look and feel.
We are excited to hire a Design Engineer to architect the surfaces and interfaces that our developers touch every day.

Design and ship product experiences. Lead design across our platform product with two other design engineers
Build with modern tools: Develop responsive, accessible, and interactive product experiences using React, Next.js, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS.
Bridge design & code: Work in Figma and code to translate visual concepts into high-quality, interactive experiences and prototypes.
Shape systems: Establish and maintain a reusable design system of components and patterns that scale with the team.
Collaborate deeply: Partner with designers, engineers, growth, and product leads to own projects from concept to launch.
Ship the best design work of your career. Craft is a first-class priority. Work next to designers who obsess over the details, and ship work you're truly proud of.
Design surfaces that millions of agents hit. From the dashboard to the SDK, your work is the front door for thousands of developers building agents.
Design and ship product experiences.
Lead design across our platform product with two other design engineers
Establish and maintain a reusable design system of components and patterns that scale with the team.

Low-ego, high-ownership mindset with a track record of shipping in tight collaboration with engineering.
You enjoy collaborating with a small, ambitious team in a fast-paced environment.
Experience designing for developer tools, infrastructure products, or technical platforms.
5+ years of product design experience at a high-growth startup.
A portfolio demonstrating strong systems thinking and end-to-end ownership, from IA to visual detail.
Strong prototyping fluency across interaction, visual detail, and motion.
A track record of building internal tooling or systems that leveled up the teams around you.
Exceptional sense of visual craft with deep attention to typography, hierarchy, and UI.
You're excited to work 4 days a week in our San Francisco HQ (or open to relocating).
Front-end fluency with React, Next.js, or Tailwind to prototype directly in code.
Founder or early-stage operator experience.
Competitive salary + meaningful early-stage equity

Small enough that you matter. We are an early-stage team of ~60 people where your work has a direct and immediate impact on our product.
We run 35M+ sessions/month for 10,000+ customers including Ramp, Shopify, Lovable, Vercel, and Notion.

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