Design Engineer

Supabase Supabase · Data AI · Remote · Design

Design Engineer responsible for the end-to-end design and experience of Supabase's marketing and documentation sites, including identifying problems, shipping fixes, and improving them. This role involves both design and front-end development, with a focus on collaboration, evolving the design system, and refining content for technical clarity. The ideal candidate is a hybrid designer/developer who understands technical audiences and actively uses AI tools for prototyping and shipping.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own the end-to-end design and experience of [supabase.com](http://supabase.com) sites, like our marketing website, documentation site, and mini sites like Select conf, Launch Week — you will also be identifying problems with these sites, shipping fixes and continually improving them.
  2. Collaborate with Product Marketing, Engineering, Product and the Docs team to ensure every page is clear and useful.
  3. Make sure our sites have beautiful typography, layout, diagrams, code blocks etc.
  4. Develop and ship live pages using modern front-end frameworks (React, Next.js, Vite). You’ll have an active voice in choosing libraries and frameworks.
  5. Evolve our design system and reusable components to keep sites consistent and scalable.

Skills

Required

  • design and front-end development
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Vite
  • Tailwind CSS
  • component libraries like shadcn/Radix/Base UI
  • production-quality front-end code

Nice to have

  • Figma
  • designing and building for developers or technical audiences
  • actively building things outside of work
  • working async and independently
  • balancing quality with speed

What the JD emphasized

  • design and code are fully intertwined
  • shipping it yourself
  • minimal direction and maximum ownership
  • design system and reusable components