About the Role
- UI/UX Design Engineer to join in-office team in Toronto; remote considered for exceptional candidate
- Leadership position owning design engineering process end-to-end
- Set standard for user experience, component library, interaction patterns, and AI-driven workflows
- Collaborate with product, engineering, and AI/ML teams to create clear, intuitive interfaces
- Lead design system scalability and elevate details like motion, accessibility, and real-time collaboration
What You’ll Do
- Own end-to-end UI: concept to production-ready, high-fidelity UI
- Build responsive, accessible components in React, TypeScript, Tailwind using Radix/shadcn patterns
- Design complex UX for real-time, multi-user features
- Evolve design system: tokens, theming, documentation, component APIs
- Integrate AI-assisted design-to-code workflows and author reliable patterns
- Add motion, micro-interactions, and states to improve comprehension
- Help build collaborative UX using Liveblocks/WebSockets optimizing presence and conflict resolution
- Ensure accessibility standards and optimize Core Web Vitals, measure UX with product metrics
Must-haves
- Portfolio of shipped, product-quality UI showing strong visual taste and systems thinking
- Fluency with Figma (flows, prototypes, component props/variants)
- Experience building within a design system (tokens, theming, component APIs)
- Strong grasp of UX principles, interaction design, and accessibility fundamentals
- Interest in AI-augmented workflows (promptable components, agent-safe patterns)
Nice-to-haves
- Hands-on with React, TypeScript, Tailwind, Radix/shadcn in production
- Animation & interaction craft (Framer Motion, CSS keyframes, spring physics)
- Real-time collaboration UX (CRDTs, optimistic UI, presence patterns)
- Testing and quality: Storybook, Playwright/Jest, a11y tooling (axe, aria-lint)
- Mobile mindset: Expo/React Native or responsive patterns beyond breakpoints
What We Offer
- Competitive salary aligned with impact
- Equity ownership in a fast-growing AI startup
- In-house team environment with lunch provided 3 days a week
- Flexible vacation & sick policy
- Quarterly team events & outings to celebrate wins
