What's Design Engineering?
Design engineers bring "taste" into engineering. They ship high-craft UI while building the systems, tooling, and workflows that help teams move faster and build better products in an AI-native environment. At InstaLILY, design engineers own production UI quality, design systems as infrastructure, and prototyping workflows that turn emerging ideas into shipped experiences.
What You'll Be Doing
Shape AI-native product experiences
- Design and build customer-facing experiences across chat, voice, copilots, and agentic workflows.
- Turn concepts, prototypes, and product ideas into polished, production-ready interfaces.
- Bring strong front-end craft to interaction design, responsiveness, and implementation detail.
Build design systems as infrastructure
- Build and evolve a design system in code as shared product infrastructure, across core components, tokens, patterns, and documentation.
- Help make the system machine-consumable, so both humans and AI-assisted tools can generate consistent interfaces from shared foundations.
Bring taste to what ships
- Bring strong judgment to UI craft and implementation quality, making thoughtful decisions around interaction design, accessibility, performance, and maintainability.
- Help ensure what ships feels clear, cohesive, and intentional, with the discernment to refine details, uphold standards, and know what elevates the product experience.
Improve tooling and team workflows
- Build internal tools that support teams across engineering, design, and functions like sales, operations, marketing, and recruiting.
- Evaluate and integrate modern AI tools, then turn those learnings into secure, repeatable workflows the broader team can build on.
Qualification
- 1+ years of experience in front-end engineering, design engineering, or product design with code.
- Strong foundation in React, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS.
- Sharp eye for visual quality, interaction detail, and product craft.
- Experience building with design systems, reusable UI, and modern prototyping workflows.
- Interest in AI-native product experiences and how AI tools are changing the way products are built.
- Strong collaboration skills across design and engineering.
- Builder mindset: proactive, thoughtful, and excited to learn by making.
- A portfolio that demonstrates strong UI craft, prototyping ability, and thoughtful implementation in code.
Compensation and Benefits
- Salary Range: $100,000 - $120,000 per year, commensurate with experience
- Equity: Generous stock options awards, and refreshers for top performers
- Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, in-office Lunch reimbursement, Wellbeing Stipend, Generous Parental leave, PTO and 10 US Federal Holidays, and more!