Summary

OpenSea is the largest decentralized application on Ethereum by user traffic, serving millions of users every month. Design Engineers straddle the line between being both technical contributors and product / brand designers they specialize in producing extremely polished, delightful interactions and experiences that make static designs come to life.. This is a unique, specialized role with a mandate to bolster frontend engineering efforts across all of our products, improve core design system implementation & consistency, and act as a close collaborator (and often direct contributor) to the design process.  

Responsibilities

• Work with design & frontend engineering teams to realize static designs into product experiences that have delightful interactions & polish with exceptional code quality, performance, and detail orientation.
• Collaborate closely with designers by bringing a technical perspective to refining static design output and often directly contributing design concepts.
• Improve and elevate core design system components and evangelize their consistent usage in OpenSeas products.
• Design and develop interactive marketing collateral such as landing pages in order to elevate OpenSeas brand presence. 

Desired Experience

• At least 4+ years in software engineering with an evident focus on Frontend Engineering
• Fluency in React, Next.js, and Tailwind.
• Extreme design-oriented detail orientation and demonstrably good sense of craft.
• Familiarity with best practices in crafting web animations & interactions
• Opinionated, autonomous, and proactive you dont wait to be told what to do. Fluency with programming in one of either JavaScript or TypeScript
• Familiarity or experience with blockchain tech not strictly required, but a strong genuine curiosity & enthusiasm for the technology is required

The base salary for this full-time position, which spans across multiple internal levels depending on qualifications, ranges between $160,000 to $275,000 plus benefits & equity.

Skills

• Attention to Detail
• React
• Software Engineering
• TypeScript