Design Engineer (Canada/Toronto)

Startup 

Full Time
Toronto
CAD 120k - CAD 200k + equity (0.1% - 0.3%)
ABOUT THE COMPANY

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

REQUIREMENTS

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

ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES

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.

PERKS
HOW TO APPLY

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?

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