Senior Design Engineer, Relay

• Are you passionate about the intersection of design and front end engineering
• You have 5+ years experience working in product design and/or front-end engineering roles
• Experience building and maintaining design systems and component libraries. Terms like tokens, variables, foundations and patterns should be familiar to you
• Familiarity with modern design tools (Figma) and experience prototyping at different levels of fidelity
• Systems thinker with an understanding of how the small things fit into the big picture
• Strong visual design skills with an eye for detail. You demonstrate proficiency in layout, typography, and visual hierarchy
• Builder at heart with a focus on using the web as a storytelling medium. Show us something cool you’ve built recently: a component with a micro interaction, a webGL experiment, some 3D art, anything at all
• Advanced knowledge of front-end foundations like HTML and CSS
• Proficiency with React, and Typescript

Desirable

• We’re looking for a Senior Design Engineer to help design the future of SMB banking – and the future of the Design function at Relay. You’ll be joining a hungry team at an early stage so you’ll have a massive impact to shape our product
• Concept, prototype, and build experiences across Relay’s product lines. You’ll mainly be focused on execution improving the look, feel, and usability of Relay
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering, to translate ideas into interfaces. You’ll prototype and iterate quickly, refining designs based on feedback
• Raise the bar and push the limits of our current product, exploring areas like motion. You’ll push boundaries, explore new directions, and decide how we get there
• Support technical and design debt reduction initiatives, refactoring legacy parts of our product to reflect more optimized design solutions
• Expand and help maintain Telegraph, our design system. You’ll work on components, foundations, and patterns that enhance our developer and designer experience, and ensure a seamless user experience across our product
• Advocate for craft, design, and the front-end across the organization. You’ll mentor team members across disciplines and help grow technical capabilities through knowledge sharing

• Stage 1: A 45-minute Google Meets video call with a member of the People team
• Stage 2: A 60-minute work sample review & discussion via Google Meets with the hiring manager and a senior member of our Product team
• Stage 3: A 30-minute conversation with a member of our executive team
• Stage 4: A 75-minute code review with 2 members from our Product and Engineering teams