As a Design Engineer, you operate at the intersection of UI/UX and front-end development—prototyping with real data, shaping design systems, and translating creative ideas into production-ready components. Your role drives innovation through code-informed design, motion, and dynamic interaction, ensuring seamless collaboration between design and engineering.

Key Responsibilities:

• Innovation in Interface Design: Push our UI forward by exploring and implementing cutting-edge approaches to animation, transitions, micro-interactions, and other dynamic elements that enhance user experience

• Real-Data Prototyping: Build high-fidelity, interactive prototypes in React that incorporate actual O'Reilly data, providing stakeholders with realistic representations of how designs will function in production

• Exploratory UI Development: Create experimental interfaces that explore future possibilities for our product, helping the team envision and evaluate new approaches

• Technical Design Partnership: Work alongside other designers as a peer, providing technical perspective throughout the design process rather than just at handoff

• Design System Foundation: Help establish the foundation for our design system by creating reusable components and documenting implementation standards

• Cross-Functional Communication: Translate design intentions to engineering teams, ensuring that innovative interactions and dynamic elements are understood and preserved

• Code-Informed Design: Apply understanding of React and front-end development to inform design decisions, exploring direct code prototyping when it serves the design process, while maintaining focus on innovation and user experience

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience in UI design, front-end development, or a similar hybrid role

• Strong portfolio demonstrating innovative interface design with examples of animation, micro-interactions, or experimental UI approaches

• Proficiency with design tools (Figma, Adobe Creative Suite) and React

• Experience connecting prototypes to real data sources and APIs

• Understanding of component-based design and experience building design system elements

• Familiarity with our tech stack (React frontend, Python/Node.js backend) is a plus

• Strong communication skills with the ability to clearly and effectively collaborate across design and engineering teams, while avoiding unnecessary jargon.