About the role
We're looking for a design engineer who obsesses over how software looks and feels to join us in San Francisco. You'll own the product surface end-to-end–from concept to pixel-perfect production code–and make Circleback's design go from really good to elite.
What you'll do
Most companies split design and engineering into separate roles, separate teams, separate conversations. We don't want that. We want one person who can look at a feature, know how it should work, open Figma, open their editor, and ship it. No handoff. No fidelity gap. What you design is what users get.
Circleback already has a product that customers love. Your job is to take that foundation and push it to the level of the best-designed software in the world. That means:
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Own the design and frontend implementation of features across web (React, Next.js), desktop (Electron, Swift), and mobile (React Native)
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Deeply understand customer problems and find elegant ways to solve them–Circleback deals in dense, conversational information, and making that feel effortless to navigate is a genuinely hard design problem
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Craft interactions, animations, and transitions that make the product feel fast and alive
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Build and evolve our design system–components, patterns, tokens–so quality scales as we ship faster
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Sweat the details other people skip: loading states, empty states, error states, keyboard shortcuts, hover treatments, the feel of a drag interaction
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Iterate quickly on experiments around onboarding, activation, and education
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Work directly with engineers and founders on product direction–you'll shape what we build, not just how it looks
