# Design Engineer

**Company:** [vvd](http://jobs.workable.com/companies/4fBGNPGYabntuCmvCqb1JE.md)
**Location:** Remote
**Workplace:** remote
**Employment type:** Full-time

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## Description

We know applying for jobs is exhausting. Endless text full of buzzwords and requirements you'll never actually use. We'll skip that.

We're **vvd**. We make tools for storytellers — worldbuilders, writers, creators. Our goal is simple: empower people to create worlds, stories, and experiences that others can get lost in.

We're still at the beginning of our own story, and we're looking for a few people to help write the next chapters.

In a moment where "AI creative tools" are pumping out slop on one side and vicious debate on the other, we're choosing a different path: use this technology to empower human creativity and craft, not replace it.

This isn't going to be easy — but you'll actually shape something real. Something that will reach millions of people. You'll own it end-to-end, in a way that leaves a mark you can point to and say: _I built that._

**What you'll do:**

**You're a design engineer — someone who lives at the intersection of how things look and how they work. You don't just design screens; you build them. You don't just write code; you obsess over whether it** _feels_ right.

-   Design and implement features end-to-end — from concept to production.
-   Move fast. We mean it. You're fluent with AI-powered dev tools (Cursor, Claude Code, etc.) and use them to ship at a pace that would be impossible without them.
-   Own the frontend experience — layout, interaction, motion, polish.
-   Work directly with engineering and product, iterate in hours not weeks.
-   Communicate directly. No corporate padding.

**Extra pluses**

-   Experience with Figma or similar design tools for rapid prototyping.
-   You care about accessibility.
-   You read fiction, build worlds, or create things for fun.

## Requirements

**What we care about**

Experience helps, but it's not a gate. If you've built and shipped real things — jobs, side projects, experiments — and can walk us through what you built, why you built it that way, what broke, and how you solved it, you're good for it.

Ownership matters more than pedigree.

**Specifically**

-   Strong frontend chops (React, TypeScript, Next.js or similar).
-   Taste. You can look at an interface and immediately feel what's working and what isn't — and you know how to fix it. Not pixel-counting, but genuine aesthetic judgment.
-   You can go from a rough idea to a polished, interactive implementation without waiting for a spec.
-   You use AI tools daily to accelerate your work — not as a crutch, but as a multiplier. You know how to prompt, iterate, and ship with them.
-   You understand enough about the backend to be dangerous — APIs, data flow, auth — so nothing blocks you.
-   You've built things with motion and interaction that felt _good_, not just functional.