Design Engineer

The bar for consumer software not "it works" — it's "it feels alive." Reaching that bar requires people who can hold design and code quality as mutual priorities. As a Design Engineer at Posh, you'll work across both our React Native event discovery app and the React web tools that power IRL creator businesses — you will be the seam between Product, Design, and Engineering anchored on our platform team. Owning the craft of what we ship to millions of people finding and creating IRL communities around the world. This role is different from any traditional engineering role, perfect for someone who began their career as a product designer, moved into frontend/product engineering roles, and has been looking for a way to marry both their skillsets in a position that blurs the lines between design and code to bring visionary ideas to life like never before. The ideal candidate is a tastemaker who’s passionate about adding magical moments to core user flows while empowering the entire engineering team with frameworks and tools that inject design-first orientation into every new product iteration we make. This is an in-person position at our NYC office, located in SoHo.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with product, design, and engineering to narrow the gap between interactive Figma prototypes and production-ready code; Improve design system usability while optimizing responsiveness and motion until every new release feels delightful; Own delight as a deliverable by adding micro-interactions that define best-in-class consumer products; Evolve our design system by maintaining components, primitives, and tokens shared across mobile and web; Prototype with code to resolve product debates faster than mockups can; Raise the bar for frontend by mentoring frontend engineers and setting patterns and standards; Influence what we build by bringing insights from design-engineering intersection into roadmap conversations.

Requirements

5+ years building production frontend for consumer products, with at least 2+ years operating in a Design Engineer–style role where craft and product judgment are equals; Deep comfort with React and React Native (ideal, but not required), TypeScript, and modern CSS; Figma Fluency — Hands-on experience with shared component libraries and optimizing design systems, and giving designers real feedback on what will and won't translate to code; A portfolio of shipped work where the craft is the priority; Strong product instincts. You can take an evolving PRD and create an immersive prototype; A bias toward ownership. You take ambiguous problems, scope them yourself, and ship something truly delightful; Comfortable working in-person in NYC, 5 days a week, alongside a small team that ships fast.

Nice to have

Background in consumer, social, or marketplace products is a plus; Experience shaping or owning a cross-platform design system that spans web and React Native; Background working closely with Senior Product Designers on consumer products; Past experience as a tech lead on a small pod; Side projects, open-source contributions, or public writing that show how you think about your craft.