Delightree - Senior Design Engineer
About the role
This role splits roughly in half.
The first half is designing for franchise operations - multi location brands, franchisee owners, and frontline staff each needing something different from the same product.
The second half is owning the layer between design and code. You'll own the design system - the components, patterns, and code. You'll write frontend code yourself, and you'll define how design work becomes a shipped interface for everyone else on the team.
That second half is why this role exists. Our approach to product development is shifting. Instead of traditional mockup handoffs, product managers and designers directly build working prototypes directly in code, using AI workflows alongside our component library. Engineering builds on those prototypes rather than starting over. You own this system and ensure it's up to scale and quality.
What you'll do
Design and build UI in the same motion - prototyping novel AI-native interactions directly in code rather than in Figma-then-handoff, especially where no pattern library exists yet.
Sit inside a pod (PM + eng lead + you) and take features from concept to shipped, rather than handing off a spec and waiting.
Own the interaction and motion details - loading/streaming states, transitions, micro-interactions - the polish that's nearly impossible to fully spec in a doc.
Build and maintain shared UI components so the
