Staff Design Engineer, Miro
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Visual workspace for innovation
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Visual workspace for innovation
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower teams to create the next big thing, powered by AI at every step of the way.
Role
Who you are
- Fluency in React, TypeScript, and CSS, you have strong architectural opinions that come from shipping, not reading
- Hands-on experience with canvas and graphics technologies: WebGL, Canvas API, SVG, and complex layout systems
- Deep craft in motion and timing, easing curves, transition timing, hover states, and frame budgets are as deliberate for you as layout decisions
- Experience designing real-time multiplayer systems: you've thought about presence, conflict, and co-authorship as UX problems, not just engineering ones
- Experience designing AI experiences, you understand the difference between putting a text input on a page and designing around probabilistic, latent AI outputs
- The instinct to prototype in code first: you reach for the browser before Figma when exploring a new interaction, and you're fast enough that prototyping doesn't feel like a cost
- Systems thinking across a large product surface, you connect patterns, design with awareness of implications elsewhere, and contribute to coherence
- Experience with streaming APIs, structured outputs, and the UX patterns that make probabilistic systems feel reliable and worth trusting
- The ability to influence the quality of work around you, through written communication, mentorship, and setting standards that others build on
What the job involves
- The Canvas, Multiplayer & AI team sits at the heart of what Miro is: an infinite, multiplayer surface where millions of people think together, run workshops, map systems, and build things
- This team owns the core interaction layer that makes the canvas feel fast, fluid, and alive — from rendering and input handling to the real-time collaboration moments that define how people work alongside each other in Miro
- The team is also at the frontier of how AI shows up on the canvas — not as a bolted-on feature, but as a genuine collaborator embedded in the way teams think and create together
- These two missions are deeply connected: AI changes what's possible on the canvas, and the canvas changes what AI can mean for a team
- The work this team does compounds across the whole product and across the entire design and engineering organisation
- As a Staff Design Engineer, you will work across canvas feel, multiplayer interaction, and AI experiences, owning the craft layer that determines whether Miro feels like a place rather than a page
- This is a build-first role: you prototype in code because it's the most honest medium, and you ship because you care about what lands in front of real people
- You'll embed with product teams across the canvas and AI portfolio while holding a broader charter around quality and craft standards
- You'll work closely with product designers, engineers, PMs, and researchers, and you'll be a key voice in how design engineering as a practice grows at Miro
- At this level, the expectation isn't just excellent individual work; it's that your presence raises the quality of everything around you
- Own the core interaction layer of the canvas, responsiveness, rendering, input handling, and spatial transitions, working on the things users feel before they name
- Design and build the multiplayer moments that make working alongside someone in Miro feel genuinely different from working alone: presence, cursors, conflict, and co-creation
- Define what it means to have an AI collaborator in a visual, multiplayer space — shaping how AI outputs land on the canvas, how suggestions feel without being intrusive, and how generative results become part of a team's work
- Craft the moments of delight and magic that make Miro memorable, animations, micro-interactions, and transitions where the tool disappears and the thinking takes over
- Build the patterns, prototypes, and shared tooling that make the broader design and engineering organisation faster and more confident
- Write things down, teach by doing, and set a quality standard that propagates, contributing to coherence across the canvas, not just within your own area
- Collaborate closely with product designers, engineers, PMs, and researchers across Miro's canvas and AI portfolio
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Millions of employees worldwide have moved to remote working, but existing tools are holding back the potential for collaboration. Tools such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams already provide remote communication platforms to millions of users, but they generally compromise on features required to emulate the team collaboration experience.
Miro has created a platform that provides enterprise tools such as collaborative whiteboards and mind-map software into an accessible and integrated service. As opposed to providing an 'all-in-one' add on, Miro allows businesses to customize and integrate the tools and resources within their individual platform to cater to the team's specific requirements.
Miro’s initial strategy of offering free and discounted subscriptions and then moving to paid models has paid off. The platform currently has over 100 million users and is trusted by enterprises such as VMware, Zendesk and Frog. The company acquired video-chat startup Around in 2022, and AI-powered product team platform Reforge in 2026, in order to enhance its offering and remain competitive in the evolving market.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
15% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2022
$400m
SERIES C
Apr 2020
$50m
SERIES B
Total funding: $476.8m
Company HQ
The East Cut, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Andrey Khusid
(CEO & Co-Founder)Prior to Miro, they founded Vitamin Group specializing in digital technologies and multimedia projects.
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