Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Chess.com is a large remote gaming and technology company focused on helping people play, learn, and enjoy chess. The Senior Design Engineer will own the interfaces for internal growth, AI-native knowledge and agent, and administrative platforms, designing and shipping polished frontends end to end. The role combines UX and visual design, frontend engineering, design system ownership, and AI-native interface development.
Responsibilities
- Design compelling, clear UI/UX and produce high-quality mocks that demonstrate strong product taste
- Turn design mocks (yours or others’) into pixel-perfect, production-ready frontends using modern web tech
- Iterate on existing interfaces by improving layout, interaction quality, motion, and design consistency
- Work closely with engineers, partners, and stakeholders. You’ll support the design and implementation of features end-to-end
- Rapidly prototype and “vibe code” to explore ideas, gather feedback, and iterate quickly
- Contribute to design systems, component libraries, and patterns that raise the bar for frontend quality
- You will own and evolve the design system: the components, tokens, and patterns that let everyone ship UI fast
- You will use Cursor and Claude to build technologies that are AI-first
- You will prototype your own ideas and ship production polish end to end
- You will design the interface layer for AI-native workflows: streaming, long-running agent runs, tool-calling surfaces
- You will code! A lot!
- You will do code reviews
Skills
- Hands-on experience fluency prompting and building AI-native development tools like (Claude Code, Cursor) as part of their daily workflow—and genuinely excited to use them to move fast on early ideas (this is core to how this team works)
- Cares deeply about polish. Defensible, articulate taste in typography, spacing, layout, micro-interactions, transitions, and information density
- Strong practical skills in modern web technologies (TypeScript, Vue, React or equivalent), with real experience building and owning a design system in code
- Contributed to open source UI libraries or design resources
- Strong collaboration and communication skills working in a fully distributed team
- Sense of ownership and responsibility
- Strong UX and visual design skills with proven taste and craftsmanship
- Ability to move fluidly between design tools (Figma, etc.) and frontend code
- Background in internal tools, admin dashboards, or developer-facing products
- Fluency prompting and building with AI-native code editors (Claude Code, Cursor) as part of your daily workflow
- Instincts for prompt engineering and LLM integration, and for how model behavior (latency, streaming, uncertainty, failure modes) should surface in the UI
- Experience building AI-native interface patterns: streaming output, agentic or long-running tasks, or tool-calling surfaces
- Comfort designing or consuming APIs that serve front-end applications, clean contracts, performance, reliability at the boundary
- Strong collaboration and communication skills working in a fully distributed team
- Sense of ownership and responsibility
Benefits
- Full-time opportunity
- 100% remote (work from anywhere!)
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