Senior design engineer

Graphite is growing rapidly, and we're looking for a design engineer to bring a high level of polish and creative experiences to Graphite.

You’ll work on both the design and implementation of our marketing pages, from graphite.dev to other microsites. You’ll also contribute to the in-product experience, partnering with other engineers to bring your creative concepts into the product.

This role combines design and engineering, and the exact responsibilities are flexible to your strengths and interests. As one of the first design engineers, you’ll help shape the role and define the future of design engineering at Graphite. Above all, this role is best suited for someone excited about both exploring beautiful experiences and technologies to bring them to life.

Rethinking the way fast-moving eng teams write and review code every day is no small feat, and we believe that the best solutions are built when the most talented, ambitious, and dedicated people from diverse backgrounds come together.

What you’ll do

• Own the implementation of the visual experience for our marketing efforts across surfaces (www, blog, docs, micro sites)

• Collaborate with our brand designer, marketing team, other design engineers on concepts and ideas for our marketing pages and new campaigns

• Explore creative improvements that uplevel the Graphite product experience, and directly implement these alongside our product engineers

• Champion and evolve the design culture and processes at Graphite

What we’re looking for

• Industry experience shipping intricate interactive visual experiences

• An ability to identify problems, build alignment, and implement solutions autonomously

• A passion for designing beautiful and performant experiences, and perfectionism in building them

• Strong frontend programming skills and expertise, preferably web UI development

• Prior experience with React, TypeScript, and Sass. Bonus if you have experience with Canvas or Three.js

Life at Graphite

• Competitive comp: ($160-220k base + substantial equity). We're backed by some of the best investors and excited to offer competitive compensation packages.

• Role trajectory. We're excited to build a team whose responsibilities and comp to grow as we do.

• Benefits. Top-tier health, dental, and vision coverage and 16 weeks paid parental leave.

• Time to decompress. We ask that our team take 4 weeks of vacation a year to unplug and unwind.

• Relocation expenses. We're an in-person, NYC-based team, and we're happy to help with your relocation expenses!

• The team that eats together. Company-paid lunch, dinner, and coffee during workdays.

• Commuter perks. Ride around NYC with an Unlimited Ride MetroCard, on us.