Design Engineer

About the role

Profound is a marketing platform for the AI era, helping brands understand how AI represents them. As a Design Engineer you will bridge design and engineering to ship polished, production-quality user interfaces for our core product and occasional marketing experiences.

Key responsibilities

• Build and ship high-quality UI across the core product and marketing site using React, Next.js and Tailwind CSS.
• Partner with product designers, managers and engineers to translate design intent into precise, high-fidelity implementations.
• Craft UI details such as layouts, typography, responsiveness, motion and micro-interactions.
• Contribute to shared UI foundations, including components, patterns and design tokens.
• Optimize interfaces for performance, accessibility and maintainability.
• Raise frontend craft standards through code reviews and critiques.

Required profile

• Strong experience delivering production-grade React, Next.js, Tailwind and TypeScript applications.
• Exceptional CSS skills and a proven ability to build pixel-perfect, resilient interfaces.
• Strong eye for design and interaction, able to defend and implement visual decisions.
• Comfortable owning work end-to-end from exploration to shipped code.
• Portfolio demonstrating high-craft frontend or design engineering work.
• Thrives in a fast-moving startup environment that values speed, iteration and quality.

Required skills

• React
• Next.js
• Tailwind CSS
• TypeScript
• CSS
• HTML
• JavaScript