Design Engineer – Railblocks

(Frontend Engineer with Strong Design Skills)
Full-time · Remote (Europe, Canada, USA, and Latam) · Portfolio Required

About the Role

Railblocks is looking for a hybrid Design Engineer — someone who thrives at the intersection of frontend engineering and product design. This is a hands-on role for an engineer who loves design, or a designer who loves to ship code. You will play a core role in shaping the UX, UI, and frontend architecture of the Railblocks platform.

If you enjoy taking ideas from rough sketches → polished design → production-ready components, and you’re excited about building elegant software for complex systems, this role is for you.

What You’ll Do

Design + UX

Lead user flows, interaction patterns, information architecture, and UI visuals for new product features.
Create high-fidelity mockups, prototypes, and design assets using Figma (other tools also welcome).
Work within and extend a design system: establishing component patterns, typography, layout scales, and behavior guidelines.
Participate in user research, usability testing, and iteration cycles to refine UX decisions.

Frontend Engineering

Translate final designs into clean, modular, production-quality React code.
Build reusable components, frontend logic, and responsive layouts for the Railblocks web application.
Collaborate with backend engineers to integrate APIs and ensure smooth end-to-end delivery.
Ensure high standards of accessibility, performance, and maintainability.
Help shape the frontend architecture (state management, styling approach, component structure, build tools, etc.).
Potential work with Convex or similar modern backend/infra frameworks.

Collaboration & Process

Work closely with product, engineering, and design partners to bring features from idea → prototype → release.
Contribute to team discussions on product direction, user needs, and technical feasibility.
Review code and design work, and help raise the overall bar for UX and frontend engineering within the team.
Continually experiment, learn, and bring fresh thinking to both design and engineering practices.

Required Skills & Experience

You should have strong experience on both sides of the Design/Engineering spectrum:

Design

Proficiency with Figma (components, prototyping, design systems).
Strong visual design skills (layout, typography, hierarchy, interaction design).
Understanding of UX best practices, usability principles, and accessibility guidelines.
Ability to create prototypes that communicate interaction patterns and flows clearly.

Engineering

Proven experience building front-end applications using React (hooks, component design, state management).
Strong skills in HTML, CSS (or CSS-in-JS), responsive design, and core web fundamentals.
Experience working with design systems or component libraries.
Ability to convert design prototypes into production-ready components.
Familiarity with front-end tooling (bundlers, CI/CD, etc.).

General

A strong, up-to-date portfolio demonstrating both design work and shipped frontend interfaces.
Excellent communication skills and collaborative mindset.
Comfortable working in a distributed/remote environment.
Located in Europe with eligibility to work for a European company.