[Remote] Design Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Gifthealth is revolutionizing healthcare by simplifying prescription and health service management. They are seeking a Design Engineer to partner closely with Product Design and Product Engineering, focusing on building high-quality, user-centered software experiences and ensuring alignment with organizational goals.

Responsibilities

• Builds and maintains user-facing product features with a strong emphasis on usability, accessibility, and performance
• Partners with Product Designers to translate design concepts, prototypes, and UX flows into production-ready implementations
• Contributes to and evolve the product design system, component libraries, and UI patterns
• Collaborates with Product and Engineering teams to define interaction patterns, technical constraints, and implementation approaches
• Ensures design fidelity, responsiveness, and cross-browser compatibility across supported platforms
• Advocates for best practices in frontend architecture, design quality, and developer experience

Skills

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, design, or related field OR equivalent practical experience
• 3–5 years of experience working on user-facing software products
• Demonstrated experience collaborating with designers on production applications
• Knowledge of modern frontend web technologies and frameworks; product design principles, including usability, accessibility, and interaction design; and design systems and component-based architecture
• Strong frontend development (e.g., React, TypeScript, modern CSS) skills
• Cross-functional collaboration skills with design and product partners
• Ability to translate design artifacts (Figma or similar) into high-quality code
• Ability to balance design intent with technical constraints
• Ability to make thoughtful tradeoffs between speed, quality, and scalability
• Ability to communicate design and engineering decisions clearly
• Formal training in UX, HCI, or interaction design
• Experience at product-led technology companies
• Experience working with design systems or platform-level UI infrastructure
• Experience building or maintaining shared design systems
• Knowledge of healthcare or regulated digital product environments; performance optimization and web standards (e.g., WCAG); and server-rendered or edge-based web platforms
• Skilled in leveraging modern product-team tooling to streamline workflows, enhance cross-functional collaboration, and support efficient, data-driven delivery
• Ability to influence product quality through design-driven engineering decisions
• Ability to iterate quickly based on user feedback and product insights

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