Staff / Principal Design Engineer

Lovable Lovable · Coding AI · Stockholm, Sweden · Design

This role is for a Staff/Principal Design Engineer at Lovable, a company that enables users to build software with plain English. The engineer will focus on building world-class interfaces, working closely with design and engineering teams. The role requires strong frontend engineering fundamentals, experience with React, and a portfolio demonstrating sophisticated interactions. The company uses a tech stack including React, Tailwind, Golang, Rust, Cloudflare, GCP, AWS, and LLM providers.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design and build world class product experiences
  2. Drive front-end execution - pioneering new interaction patterns, micro-animations, and delightful details that elevate the entire experience
  3. Implement features in React/TypeScript with obsessive attention to detail
  4. Collaborate with backend, ML, design, and product teams to bring complex features to life in a seamless way
  5. Explore and iterate on visual designs with designers, translating explorations into scalable, web-native implementations

Skills

Required

  • 10+ years of experience
  • Frontend engineering fundamentals
  • React architecture
  • State management
  • Performance
  • Accessibility
  • Scalable UI patterns
  • React
  • TypeScript

Nice to have

  • Interaction design
  • Golang
  • Rust
  • Cloudflare
  • GCP
  • AWS
  • LLM providers
  • Github Actions
  • Grafana
  • OTEL
  • Terraform

What the JD emphasized

  • Portfolio demonstrating sophisticated interactions and thoughtful user affordances required