About the Role
We are seeking a Design Engineer to enhance interaction quality, motion, and polish across our product. This role bridges design and engineering, collaborating with teams to deliver crafted, consistent, and human-centered features. You will embed within product teams to own the interaction quality layer from ideation to launch, ensuring a high level of polish. Responsibilities include identifying and fixing production gaps, refining interactions, improving UI quality, defining scalable motion and interaction patterns, and contributing to design system enhancements.
Responsibilities
- Embed across various product teams to support high-impact work, partnering with designers and engineers from ideation to launch.
- Prototype and build interaction-rich experiences that bring design concepts to life in production.
- Collaborate with product designers and product managers to identify opportunities and explore solutions.
- Define motion and interaction standards that scale across the product.
- Proactively identify and execute on opportunities that raise the overall quality bar for visual polish, interaction, and frontend craft across the company.
- Audit and improve production UI by identifying and fixing visual bugs, inconsistencies, and interaction gaps.
- Contribute to design system improvements in partnership with design and the frontend platform team.
Requirements
- 5+ years of frontend or UX engineering experience, ideally in consumer or product-focused companies.
- Excellent sense of visual and interaction design, with an eye for spacing, typography, motion, and delightful details.
- Experience collaborating closely with designers throughout the entire product development process.
- Ability to prototype quickly and translate ambiguous ideas into tangible interfaces.
- Ability to build scalable component libraries, design systems, or reusable UI frameworks.
- Fluency in modern JavaScript/TypeScript, Next, React, CSS systems, and component architecture.
- An understanding of accessibility (WCAG) and web performance considerations.
- A systems mindset seeing patterns, simplifying complexity, and designing for long-term reuse.
- Strong communication skills and ability to influence product direction and UI standards.
- A passion for building delightful, consumer-grade user experiences.
- Founder’s mindset - ownership, speed, scrappiness, resilience, bias toward action.
Skills
- JavaScript/TypeScript
- Next
- React
- CSS systems
- Component architecture
- Accessibility (WCAG)
- Web performance
Location
- NYC
- San Francisco
- Seattle
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full Time
- Exempt
Experience Level
- 5+ years
Salary/Compensations
- $182,000–$250,000 USD Annually
Benefits
- Comprehensive Health Coverage: Medical, dental, and vision insurance, plus life and disability coverage.
- Parental Leave & Family Support: Up to 18 weeks paid leave and a new child stipend.
- Financial Wellness: 401(k) program and equity opportunities.
- Meals & Home Office Support: Stipends for home office setup and ongoing funds for meals, with tailored perks for both remote and in-office employees.
- Time Off to Recharge: Flexible PTO, 12 paid holidays, and a full winter break week.
- Wellness & Development: Annual stipends to put towards personal & professional growth.
- Mental & Physical Health Support: No-cost access to therapy through the Grow platform, weekly flexible hours for self-care (“Mental Health Mornings/Afternoons”) and memberships to leading wellness apps (such as One Medical, Headspace, and Talkspace).
- Extra Perks: Pet insurance discounts, commuter benefits, and global travel assistance.
About the Company
- Grow Therapy is on a mission to serve as the trusted partner for therapists growing their practice, and patients accessing high-quality care.
- Powered by technology, we are a three-sided marketplace that empowers providers, augments insurance payors, and serves patients.
- Following the mass increase in depression and anxiety, the need for accessibility is more important than ever.
- To make our vision for mental healthcare a reality, we’re building a team of entrepreneurs and mission-driven go-getters.
- Since launching in February 2021, we’ve empowered more than ten thousand therapists and hundreds of thousands of clients across the country and insurance landscape.
- We’ve raised more than $328Mm in funding, including our Series D, at a $3B valuation from Sequoia Capital, Transformation Capital, TCV, SignalFire, Menlo Ventures, Goldman Sachs Alternatives, and others.
Equal Opportunity
- Grow Therapy is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer.
- We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.
- We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
