Design engineer
- Location
- San Francisco
- Employment type
- Full time
- Location type
- On-site or remote
- Department
- Design
TL;DR: You will grow the design systems and rules coding agents use to build web apps, from a Figma file to React components they can install.
Why Better Design
Coding agents write more of the world's software every day, and most of what they build looks generic. Better Design gives them design systems, design rules and reviews, so what they build looks designed.
We are a small team, early enough that what you build here shapes the product and the company.
What you will own
- Author new design systems for web apps in React, with every component in the set.
- Take a brand from a Figma file to a design system an agent can install.
- Turn what you know about good interfaces into review rules an agent can follow.
What we look for
- You have built React components that other people ship in production.
- You work in Figma every day and can build components that match the file.
- You can say why a design works, in plain words, so it can become a rule.
How we work
- San Francisco or remote. Work with us in San Francisco or from where you do your best work. We write decisions down, so nobody needs a meeting to catch up.
- Small team. Each person owns a whole area, from the first sketch to the release.
- Agents do the repetitive work. Coding agents write the boilerplate, run the checks and review each change. People make the calls that need taste.
- We use what we sell. Our own design review checks every screen we ship, this page included.
Our stack
You do not need to know all of it on day one.
- Next.js, React and Tailwind for the web app
- Hono on Cloudflare Workers for the API
- Postgres on Neon with Drizzle, and D1 for smaller stores
- An MCP server that coding agents install from npm
- Claude Code and Codex for most of the typing