Design Engineer

Parallel Web Systems

• $110K — $130K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in design engineering or related field
  • Strong portfolio demonstrating visual craft and functional design
  • Experience with component libraries and microsites
  • Proficiency in prototyping and shipping code
  • Familiarity with API architecture and navigation
  • Ability to collaborate closely with cross-functional teams

Responsibilities

  • Lead design and implementation of polished component libraries
  • Develop and launch ambitious microsites and interactive demos
  • Prototype designs in the browser and push to production
  • Collaborate with design, engineering, and product teams from project conception
  • Analyze and refine API architecture and navigation systems
  • Ensure coherence across diverse product surfaces

Benefits

  • Generous equity opportunities
  • Visa sponsorship provided
  • 401K retirement plans
  • Daily office lunch and snacks
  • Dinner offered at the office
  • Unlimited vacation policy
  • Reimbursement for Caltrain pass
Full Job Description
Job: We're hiring a design engineer to help shape and build interactive experiences across Parallel's website, product, and special projects. The work ranges from refining everyday interactions and motion to creating visual essays, data visualizations, launch pages, and minisites.

You'll work alongside designers, marketers, and engineers from the first rough idea through to production. That means prototyping possible directions, contributing to our core website, and getting the details right in the browser. You'll also build reusable components and patterns that help us ship the next project faster.

You: You're a design engineer or a frontend engineer with strong design instincts. Your work shows care for typography, layout, and the timing and feel of an interaction. You've shipped working websites and can point to the decisions you made along the way. You're comfortable with modern frontend and animation libraries, and know when to build something custom. You move quickly in prototypes and carry that work through to a responsive, accessible, performant site.

About Parallel Design: We design for a web used by both people and agents, grounding our work in real code, data, and evidence. We draw from the history of the web, computing, and publishing to help explain what comes next, while leaving room for experiments, tangents, and things made simply because they're good.

Life at Parallel

Our team works fully in-person, between our Palo Alto HQ and San Francisco office. We're a flat, talent-dense organization dedicated to solving technical and creative problems.

We seek like-minded individuals who share our passion for applying science, creativity, and consistency to big and complex problems with equally big outcomes. These are our values:
  • Own customer impact: It's on us to ensure real-world outcomes for our customers.
  • Obsess over craft: Perfect every detail because quality compounds.
  • Accelerate change: Ship fast, adapt faster, and move frontier ideas into production.
  • Create win-wins: Creatively turn trade-offs into upside.
  • Make high-conviction bets: Try and fail. But succeed an unfair amount.


Compensation & benefits
  • Competitive salary
  • Generous equity
  • Visa sponsorships
  • 401K plans
  • Daily lunch & office snacks
  • Dinner at the office
  • Unlimited vacation
  • Caltrain pass reimbursement

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