Design Engineer

Mintlify • Full-time • San Francisco, California, US • $150k - $200k / year • 5d ago

Join us in our mission to empower developers worldwide

Mintlify's platform reaches 20m+ developers every year and power the documentation of 5000+ companies including Anthropic, Scale AI, Cursor, X, Perplexity, Zapier, and over 20% of the last YC batch.

Design Engineer

We're seeking a creative and technically skilled Design Engineer to join our team, combining strong design sensibilities with modern frontend development expertise.

Position Overview: Our ideal candidate bridges the gap between design and development, crafting beautiful, responsive interfaces while maintaining excellent code quality and performance.

Required Skills & Experience:

Proven experience building and deploying Next.js applications in production environments
Strong proficiency with TailwindCSS and component-based design systems
Active personal portfolio showcasing your design and development work
Deep understanding of frontend performance optimization and responsive design principles
Experience with modern JavaScript/TypeScript development practices
Strong eye for design, typography, spacing, and visual hierarchy

Responsibilities:

Develop and maintain responsive web applications using Next.js and TailwindCSS
Collaborate with designers and backend engineers to implement pixel-perfect interfaces
Create reusable component libraries and design systems
Optimize application performance and user experience
Contribute to technical architecture decisions and best practices
Mentor junior developers in frontend development and design principles

Preferred Qualifications:

Familiarity with UI/UX design tools (Figma, Adobe XD)
Experience with testing frameworks (Jest, React Testing Library)

Our values

We’re a small team with big dreams - and the culture we create is just as important to us as the product we’re building.

📈 Growth oriented

Slope y intercept. We invest in people and growth as the company grows.

💚 Humility

Everyone has a lot to give and a lot to learn. Egos are not allowed.

🌟 Customer focused

We love our customers. We make decisions by focusing relentlessly on them - and accept if this means changing our ideas. Customer success is our success.

💡 Intellectual honesty

We believe in creating an environment where the best ideas win and acknowledging when we are wrong.

👾 Hack to success

We move fast and take big swings. We always aim for a solution that addresses 80% of the problem in 20% of the time. We make educated bets, launch MVPs, and iterate.

🔥 Having fun

Be unapologetically you! We love our game-nights, ping pong tournaments, bufo emojis, and cow jokes (the CEO knows over 100 of them and TechCrunch made fun of him for it).