Design Engineer (Canada/Toronto)
Startup
Founded in 2022, our company was born out of our desire for a product to find opportunities to optimize and make managing cloud data costs easier. After a period of research and consultation with other practitioners, we learned we weren't alone in wanting such a thing, so we set about building the company.
Our company is the most widely adopted Snowflake optimization and cost management platform. Data teams at CarGurus, Vimeo, Intercom, Substack and ClickUp use our platform to monitor, control and optimize their Snowflake usage. We provide un-precedented visibility into Snowflake usage, surfaces optimization insights to each team, and provides fully automated savings with the click of a button.
Team size: 12 people
Founding year: 2022, Toronto, Ontario
Seniority
- 3 - 7 years of experience as a product designer or design engineer preferably with experience building data-heavy web applications in a startup environment
Work experience
- Previous experience at a startup
- Previous experience designing data-heavy web applications
- Previous experience building/owning a design system end-to-end
Hard skills
- Design Expertise: Strong understanding of design principles, established patterns, user experience, and visual aesthetics
- Coding skills. Can build front-end layouts and components with libraries like React and Tailwind CSS.
Soft skills
- Excellent communication skills and a self-managing approach.
Miscellaneous
- Based in Canada
- Great at finding design solutions that are intuitive and reduce complexity.
- Based in/near eastern time zone
We're seeking a Design Engineer to take the user experience of our company to the next level. This role is perfect for someone who is looking to build and own our entire design system, from ideation to implementation.
What You'll Do
- Collaborate with the founders and engineering team to conceptualize and implement user-centric designs.
- Understand our product and vision at a deep level, crafting interfaces that don't just work but are a delight to use.
- Develop and maintain design systems that promote consistency and scalability.
- This role is 80% ideation and development of our SaaS design system in code, with the other 20% on branding and other materials such as marketing designs and website.
Answer those questions and send your answers, together with your updated portfolio, salary range, notice period & CV to mathieu@undiscovered-talent.com
- Why do you want to join an early stage startup?
- Have you worked on data-heavy interfaces before?
- Are you comfortable coding your own components?