Design Engineer

Icertis

$175K — $250K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Designer with high-level coding skills or engineer with exceptional product taste
  • Proactive in problem-solving and iterative design
  • Strong UI/UX skills across various domains
  • Ability to independently create from wireframes to polished UI
  • Solid frontend engineering experience (React + TypeScript)
  • Experience with design systems or component libraries
  • Comfortable navigating ambiguous problem spaces
  • Interest in B2B, complex workflows, or AI-native products
  • Exceptional communication skills, particularly in rationale sharing

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate closely with Dioptra's founders
  • Work with high trust, autonomy, and responsibility
  • Own product design from initial concept to production
  • Engage in customer calls to gather insights
  • Simplify complex problems into intuitive interfaces
  • Create and maintain a design system and component library
  • Rapidly prototype and test ideas in code
  • Focus on detailed user interactions and edge cases
  • Drive fast iteration and refinement of design
  • Influence product direction and prioritization directly with founders

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental benefits
  • Employee assistance program (EAP) available
  • Equity (RSUs) offered as part of compensation
  • Generous 401K matching program
  • Flexible work environment options
  • Paid maternity and paternity leave available
  • Generous holiday and PTO policies
  • Annual allowance for personal development
  • Paid volunteer days (7 Days for Humanity)
  • Commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion initiatives
Full Job Description
Job Description

Responsibilities

On this team, you'll:

  • Report directly with Dioptra's founders as part of a small, highly focused product and engineering group


  • You'll operate like a founder: high trust, high autonomy, high responsibility


  • Own product experience end-to-end: customer understanding 12 wireframes 12 high-fidelity design 12 production-quality UI


  • Join customer calls regularly to develop deep empathy for users and workflows


  • Translate complex, messy problems into clear, intuitive interfaces


  • Establish and evolve a design system and component library from scratch


  • Prototype ideas quickly in code to test interactions, not just in Figma


  • Sweat the details: loading states, edge cases, error handling, micro-interactions


  • Drive fast iteration loops


  • Partner directly with founders on product direction and prioritization


  • Define the bar for design quality and user experience as the product scales


Qualifications

  • Who you are
  • You're either a designer who codes at a high level, or an engineer with exceptional product taste
  • You don't wait for specs, you figure things out and iterate.
  • Strong UI/UX skills: interaction design, information architecture, visual design, user empathy
  • Ability to go from wireframes 12 polished UI independently
  • Solid frontend engineering skills (React + TypeScript or similar)
  • Experience building or contributing to design systems / component libraries
  • Comfortable working directly from ambiguous problem spaces
  • Experience (or strong interest) in B2B / complex workflows / AI-native products
  • Strong communication-especially explaining why something should work a certain way


Salary range and description

Min $175,000 - Max $250,000 USD per year

We are considering Engineers at various levels based on experience, thus the broad base salary range. Pay offered will vary based on job-related factors such as location, experience, training, skills, and abilities.

In addition to the base salary, an annual bonus target and an equity component is included in the compensation package.

Icertis is committed to:

Icertians (employees) and their family's physical, mental and financial health and wellbeing

Turbocharging Icertians careers

Making a social and environmental impact in our communities

Cultivation and advancing a culture of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB) within our company, customers, and suppliers

Generous holidays including the 4th of July week off - paid

Free professional and leadership coaching

Annual personal development allowance

What we offer:

Robust medical (physical & mental vision and dental benefits

Employee assistance program (EAP)

Equity (RSUs) and shared ownership in the company

Generous 401K match

Flexible work environment

Paid maternity and paternity leave

Generous holiday and PTO program

CaaS (coaching as a service)

Annual personal development allowance

7 Days for Humanity - 7 paid volunteer days annually

Global and regional DEIB steering committees, employee resource groups (ERGs)

Global DEIB training programs and guest speakers throughout the year

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