Job description
The Role
At StackBlitz, we’re redefining how developers build for the web. We’re looking for a Senior Design Engineer to bridge the gap between design and front-end engineering while driving architectural excellence and technical innovation across our platform.
This role is perfect for someone who combines deep front-end architectural expertise with a passion for crafting intuitive user experiences. You thrive on building scalable systems, sweating the small details, and implementing UI improvements that make a big impact.
Responsibilities
- Own front-end design refinements, improving UI/UX across our site and products.
- Evolve our frontend architecture, ensuring maintainability, scalability, and performance across our platform.
- Drive technical excellence by identifying and reducing technical debt, establishing best practices, and implementing architectural improvements.
- Implement design updates and polish interactions, ensuring a seamless user experience.
- Collaborate with Product, Design, Engineering, and Marketing to translate ideas into visually compelling, high-performance interfaces.
- Architect and expand our design system and component library, ensuring consistency across all user touchpoints.
- Lead the development of reusable React components and establish patterns that enhance developer productivity and code maintainability.
- Implement and optimize complex UI interactions, while maintaining a focus on performance, accessibility, usability, and performance, ensuring our platform remains intuitive for both technical and non-technical users.
- Prototype and iterate quickly, refining designs based on feedback and data.
- Champion modern frontend development practices, mentoring team members and contributing to technical decision-making.
How You’ll Contribute
- Architect & Innovate: Lead the evolution of our frontend architecture while improving the look, feel, and usability of StackBlitz and Bolt.new to create a smoother user experience.
- Bridge Design & Code: Work alongside engineers and designers to bring polished, high-quality UI components to life.
- Drive Technical Excellence: Identify opportunities for architectural improvements, lead technical debt reduction initiatives, and implement scalable solutions.
- Refine the User Journey: Identify and fix usability issues, improving navigation, interaction, and overall clarity.
- Own Small but Meaningful Details: Whether it’s refining button states, animations, or typography, you’ll ensure a consistent and delightful experience.
- Build for Users: Create solutions that align with how our users think and work with our platform.
- Lead & Mentor: Champion modern frontend practices, guide architectural decisions, and help grow the technical capabilities of the team through mentorship and knowledge sharing.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in front-end development, design engineering, or a hybrid role.
- Proficiency in React, TypeScript, and modern frontend architecture patterns.
- Strong foundation in HTML, CSS (Tailwind), and frontend performance optimizations.
- Experience leading architectural initiatives and driving technical excellence in complex web applications.
- Familiarity with design tools like Figma, Sketch, or Adobe XD, and a passion for visual polish.
- Experience building and maintaining design systems and component libraries.
- Strong UX sensibilities, with an ability to balance aesthetics and functionality.
- An eye for detail—you care about spacing, typography, animations, and micro-interactions.
- Experience working in a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment.
- Bonus: Experience with WebAssembly, Web Workers, Web Components, Remix or developer tooling.
Absolutely NOT Required
- A college degree
- Being located in or authorized to work in the United States
- Having ALL of the skills/experience listed above. If you’re interested in the job, please apply!
About Us
StackBlitz is on a mission to bring web development into the browser. We are already trusted by over 1M developers every month. Our users are globally distributed and use StackBlitz for learning, collaboration, open source projects, and at work on world-class development teams.
You will feel at home on our team if you have trouble closing your laptop at the end of a long day of working on a particularly tricky problem, and at the same time recognize that a healthy personal life is more important than stressing about work during personal time. We all love to work hard and get stuff done, but know that optimal performance is achieved when we are fulfilled and happy in our personal lives.
Perks at StackBlitz
- 100% remote company
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents (for US employees)
- Paid parental leave
StackBlitz = Equal Opportunity Employer
We are actively seeking to create a diverse work environment because teams are stronger with different perspectives and experiences. We encourage YOU, whoever you are to apply!
We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. All employees and contractors of StackBlitz are responsible for maintaining a work culture free from discrimination and harassment by treating others with kindness and respect.
