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Hybrid (San Francisco)$170k - $280kFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Design Engineer at Circleback focused on end-to-end product surface, from concept to production code, shaping a unified design and frontend implementation across web, desktop, and mobile to create elite user experiences.

Responsibilities

  • Own the design and frontend implementation of features across web (React, Next.js), desktop (Electron, Swift), and mobile (React Native)
  • Deeply understand customer problems and find elegant ways to solve them in dense, conversational information contexts
  • Craft interactions, animations, and transitions that make the product feel fast and alive
  • Build and evolve our design system–components, patterns, tokens–to scale quality
  • Sweat the details: loading states, empty states, error states, keyboard shortcuts, hover treatments, drag interactions
  • Iterate quickly on onboarding, activation, and education
  • Work directly with engineers and founders on product direction–shape what we build, not just how it looks
  • Prototype new ideas quickly in code, not just mockups–evaluate interactions by using them

Qualifications

  • Experience: 3+ years
  • Visa: Will sponsor
  • Portfolio or shipped work demonstrating craft and ability to ship end-to-end features
  • Strong opinions on typography, color, spacing, and product feel
  • Ability to ship with minimal handoffs and bridge design and engineering

Skills

Required:ReactReact NativeSwiftTypeScript

Benefits

  • Free lunch and dinners
  • Competitive salary and equity
  • Flexible health coverage
  • 401K matching
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Circleback

AI-powered meeting notes and automations

Circleback helps teams get the most out of every conversation with best-in-class AI-powered meeting notes, action items, automations, and search. For example, Circleback can automatically identify feature requests that come up in product demo calls and create Linear tasks for each of them, or update your CRM with customer details after a sales call. Before Circleback, Ali led the first integration of LLMs into the Stripe support product and Kevin worked on predictive analytics at Tableau as a senior software engineer.

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