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Design Engineer – Railblocks
(Frontend Engineer with Strong Design Skills) Full-time · Remote (Europe, Canada, USA, and Latam) · Portfolio Required
About the Role
Railblocks is looking for a hybrid Design Engineer — someone who thrives at the intersection of frontend engineering and product design. This is a hands-on role for an engineer who loves design, or a designer who loves to ship code. You will play a core role in shaping the UX, UI, and frontend architecture of the Railblocks platform.
If you enjoy taking ideas from rough sketches → polished design → production-ready components, and you’re excited about building elegant software for complex systems, this role is for you.
What You’ll Do
Design + UX
- Lead user flows, interaction patterns, information architecture, and UI visuals for new product features.
- Create high-fidelity mockups, prototypes, and design assets using Figma (other tools also welcome).
- Work within and extend a design system: establishing component patterns, typography, layout scales, and behavior guidelines.
- Participate in user research, usability testing, and iteration cycles to refine UX decisions.
Frontend Engineering
- Translate final designs into clean, modular, production-quality React code.
- Build reusable components, frontend logic, and responsive layouts for the Railblocks web application.
- Collaborate with backend engineers to integrate APIs and ensure smooth end-to-end delivery.
- Ensure high standards of accessibility, performance, and maintainability.
- Help shape the frontend architecture (state management, styling approach, component structure, build tools, etc.).
- Potential work with Convex or similar modern backend/infra frameworks.
Collaboration & Process
- Work closely with product, engineering, and design partners to bring features from idea → prototype → release.
- Contribute to team discussions on product direction, user needs, and technical feasibility.
- Review code and design work, and help raise the overall bar for UX and frontend engineering within the team.
- Continually experiment, learn, and bring fresh thinking to both design and engineering practices.
Required Skills & Experience
You should have strong experience on both sides of the Design/Engineering spectrum:
Design
- Proficiency with Figma (components, prototyping, design systems).
- Strong visual design skills (layout, typography, hierarchy, interaction design).
- Understanding of UX best practices, usability principles, and accessibility guidelines.
- Ability to create prototypes that communicate interaction patterns and flows clearly.
Engineering
- Proven experience building front-end applications using React (hooks, component design, state management).
- Strong skills in HTML, CSS (or CSS-in-JS), responsive design, and core web fundamentals.
- Experience working with design systems or component libraries.
- Ability to convert design prototypes into production-ready components.
- Familiarity with front-end tooling (bundlers, CI/CD, etc.).
General
- A strong, up-to-date portfolio demonstrating both design work and shipped frontend interfaces.
- Excellent communication skills and collaborative mindset.
- Comfortable working in a distributed/remote environment.
- Located in Europe with eligibility to work for a European company.
Nice to Have
- Experience with Convex or interest in modern full-stack frameworks.
- Experience with TypeScript.
- Familiarity with Storybook or similar component documentation tooling.
- Experience with animations, transitions, and micro-interactions.
- Previous work on SaaS or complex systems interfaces.
- Knowledge of A/B testing, analytics, or user research methodologies.
- Experience integrating REST/GraphQL APIs.
To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/g2i-design-engineer