Design Engineer

Antimetal

$90K — $130K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in frontend development
  • Proficiency in React, Next.js, TypeScript, and Tailwind
  • Strong understanding of modern frontend architecture and performance optimization
  • Expertise in CSS, including animation and layout techniques
  • A portfolio demonstrating high-quality design and user interface work
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced startup environment

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain a scalable design system in Figma and code
  • Create pixel-perfect user experiences using CSS
  • Collaborate with design and engineering teams to implement new features
  • Contribute to the product's core architecture and frontend best practices
  • Invent new interaction patterns for AI-driven tools

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and equity participation
  • Comprehensive health, vision, and dental insurance
  • Unlimited paid time off (PTO)
  • Nightly catered dinners
  • Monthly fitness stipend
  • Commuter benefits including Citi Bike and train reimbursements
  • Provision of essential equipment for optimal productivity
Full Job Description
We're looking for a design engineer to take ideas from rough sketches to production. You'll play a key role in shaping entirely new interaction paradigms for understanding and controlling infrastructure. You'll own the look, feel, and experience of Antimetal across our entire platform.

What You'll Do:
  • Own the design system across Figma and code (React, Tailwind), keeping it robust and scalable.
  • Ship pixel-perfect interfaces with CSS.
  • Take ideas from rough sketches to production-ready by partnering with design and engineering.
  • Raise the bar on front-end architecture and best practices.
  • Define new interaction patterns for AI-driven tools.


What you bring:
  • Experience working as a Design Engineer, frontend engineer with strong design skills, or designer with strong engineering skills
  • Highly proficient in React, Next.js, TypeScript, and Tailwind, with a strong grasp of modern frontend architecture, state management patterns, and performance optimization.
  • Strong visual and interaction instincts-you care deeply about detail, motion, and making interfaces feel precise, responsive, and intentional.
  • A fast, flexible prototyper who is equally comfortable exploring ideas in Figma, code, or AI tools, depending on what gets you to signal fastest.
  • Hands-on with CSS animation, transitions, and layout techniques-skilled at crafting interfaces that move and respond with clarity and intent.
  • A strong portfolio showcasing high-quality front-end development work.
  • Comfortable in a fast-moving startup environment. You are quick to iterate, test ideas, and push toward outcomes.


Bonus:
  • GSAP
  • R3F, Three.js, WebGL
  • Infrastructure knowledge
Who you are:
  • Identify as a builder
  • Are excited to work in-person from our new and spacious office in New York
  • Love working in a startup environment (experience in a startup or obsession with going zero-to-one)
  • Enjoy working with people who are ambitious, caring, and think in systems
  • Thrive in a fast-paced iterative environment where experimentation is essential


What we bring:
  • Pay & ownership - Competitive salary with generous equity grants.
  • Full coverage + retirement - Fully covered health, dental, and vision, plus retirement benefits.
  • Unlimited PTO - Take the time you need to recharge.
  • Dinner on late nights - Working late? Dinner is on us.
  • Fitness stipend - Monthly support for your health and wellness.
  • Tools of the trade - Any equipment you need to do your best work.
  • Commute perks - Citi Bike + train benefits.

Interview process
  1. Application Review - Send us your stuff, and a quick note on why you're excited.
  2. Intro Chat: Share what you're looking for next and learn more about what we're building.
  3. Founder Interview: Talk with our CTO Shreyas in more detail about the role
  4. Product engineering exercise: You will have a set amount of time to develop rough prototypes to explore ideas based on a problem we define together.
  5. Onsite: Come onsite and meet the team through a series of 1:1 interviews.
  6. Decision - We'll move fast.

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