Senior Design Engineer

About Perspective

Our mission is to enable passionate people to grow the businesses they love. We are doing this by helping 5.000+ entrepreneurs with the fastest and easiest growth marketing platform. So you work work directly impact thousands of entrepreneurs & their customers.

We're 100% bootstrapped & profitable. With less than 40 people we were able to scale our company to over €11M ARR. Now we are on our journey towards 100M ARR – and we believe by staying a small team with highly talented people we will get there fastest. 🌟

We're in an exciting phase, expanding internationally and maturing our product and culture at the same time. We prioritize great execution and high impact - we strive for highest quality in what we do, as we believe the world doesn’t need more mediocrity.

We foster a culture of ownership and freedom in a fully remote environment across Europe, enabling us to build the lives we want while making maximal impact. Come join our team of extraordinary people! 🚀

About the role

As a Senior Design Engineer, you will be responsible for creating and implementing user-facing features with a focus on elegant, responsive, and high-performing UI components. You will work closely with designers, other engineers, and other teams to enhance the user experience across our software, ensuring that both the design and implementation are intuitive, visually stunning, and aligned with user needs. Your expertise in UX/UI design, combined with your technical front-end skills, will be key to elevating our product’s user experience to the next level.

What you will be doing

• Design and build beautiful, user-friendly, and scalable UI components that enhance the user experience for our platform

• Translate high-fidelity designs into interactive, functional code using React, TypeScript, and modern front-end technologies

• Continuously improve the usability, performance, and aesthetics of the application by gathering feedback, conducting user research, and iterating on design

• Partner with designers to ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs, helping shape and implement product features from concept to final product

• Share insights and knowledge with engineers and designers to promote best practices in design and front-end developmen

• Improve application performance by profiling, optimizing, and monitoring UI to ensure fast load times and smooth interactions

Who you are

• You have 5+ years of experience in front-end development, with a strong focus on UX/UI design, ideally in a SaaS environment (marketing software, website builders, etc.)

• You have a solid understanding of design principles, UX best practices, and how to translate designs into functional code using front-end technologies such as React, TypeScript, and CSS frameworks

• You are proficient in designing reusable React components and hooks that are scalable and maintainable

• You have a keen eye for aesthetics and are passionate about creating delightful and accessible user interfaces that enhance the user experience

• You are comfortable collaborating with designers to ensure the UI aligns with the intended user experience and meets high design standards

• You have experience with state management frameworks such as Redux, ensuring smooth and consistent interactions across the app

• You are experienced with front-end testing frameworks (Jest, Cypress) and believe in writing tested code

• You are fluent in English (both written and verbal), and proficiency in German is a plus

• Experience with Next.js, Node.js, or Svelte is a plus, but not required

• Familiarity with TailwindCSS or other utility-first CSS frameworks is a plus

If you think this job is the right job for you, even though you do not perfectly match the profile, we would still love to hear from you. 🤗

What you can expect at Perspective

• Remote & Freedom | We strongly believe that every work environment needs to be ideal and fitted to the person. For this very reason, all our team members work remotely – in their own much needed way. That’s how we can ensure that all our talents have much freedom to create the best results possible.

• Responsibility, Ownership & Impact | At Perspective, all our team members have a voice. We value every opinion and encourage all to speak their mind. Only with team effort, we can create something great. We believe in our team and therefore, give them much responsibility. Even if we fail, we learn from it, get back up and continue to succeed. It is part of the game and we know it.

• Personal & Professional Growth | Your development is our priority. With our intensive onboarding, feedback talks and trainings, we foster your personal and professional development. One of our core value is “Keep Growing” which we portray in everything we do.

• Best Equipment & Remote Budget | Our company is build on the USP of quality and we want to keep it that way. To keep up the quality, we only provide the best equipment to our team: For example, every new team member receives an Apple MacBook Pro for their work and a monthly remote working budget.

• Team Events | We know working solely remotely can make it difficult to build a strong team spirit. However, at Perspective we focus deeply on team building by hosting various team events throughout the year. We understand the need of interaction face-to-face and strongly encourage it.

• Cordial & passionate team | Last, but not least, we are the most cordial team you can imagine. We love working together, respect each other and always value each others opinions. We care deeply about our team members and are always down for a good virtual after work hangout.