USD per year
Firecrawl
The API to search, scrape, and interact with the web at scale. 🔥
Design Engineer
- San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)
Job type Full-time Role Engineering, Full stack Visa US citizen/visa only Apply to Firecrawl and hundreds of other fast-growing YC startups with a single profile. Apply to role ›
About the role
Design Engineer
You'll own the look, feel, and experience of Firecrawl across our entire platform — from the core product UI to docs, playgrounds, and marketing pages. You take ideas from rough sketches to production-ready pages, and you ship them fast. If you care about motion, precision, and performance, you'll thrive here. Salary Range: $160,000–$240,000/year (Range shown is for U.S.-based employees in San Francisco, CA. Compensation outside the U.S. is adjusted fairly based on your country's cost of living. You can explore how we calculate this here: https://www.firecrawl.dev/careers/compensation.) Equity Range: Up to 0.15% Location: San Francisco, CA (Hybrid) Job Type: Full-Time Experience: 3+ years Visa: US Citizenship/Visa required
About Firecrawl
Firecrawl is the easiest way to extract data from the web. Developers use us to reliably convert URLs into LLM-ready markdown or structured data with a single API call. In just a year, we've hit 8 figures in ARR and 100k+ GitHub stars by building the fastest way for developers to get LLM-ready data. We're a small, fast-moving, technical team building essential infrastructure super-intelligence will use to gather data on the web. We ship fast and deep.
What You'll Do
- Build beautiful, fast UIs using Next.js, Tailwind, and Framer Motion
- Create and optimize product pages and interactive playgrounds
- Maintain and scale our internal design system across all surfaces
- Own UX and polish across marketing, docs, and app interfaces
- Collaborate directly with founders to ship high-impact features
- Lead proof-of-concept work for new ideas and experiences
What We're Looking For
A builder with a sharp eye and obsessive attention to motion, interaction, and polish. You go from concept to finished product independently. You don't wait for a spec to be perfect — you ship, iterate, and make things better every day. You've worked in fast environments before and you like it that way. Strong with Next.js, Tailwind, and Framer Motion. These are our core stack. You don't need to be an expert in all three on day one, but you should be dangerous in at least two and excited to go deep on the third. Obsessed with developer experience. Our users are developers. You understand that great design in a dev tools context means clarity, speed, and zero friction — not flashy gimmicks. You ship live projects with real users. Portfolio pieces are fine. But we want to see things people actually use — not just Dribbble shots that never saw production. Backgrounds that often do well: Design engineers at developer tools companies, frontend engineers with strong design instincts, designers who code and ship their own work, or indie builders who've launched products end-to-end.
What We're NOT Looking For
Pure designers who don't code. This role lives in the codebase. If you need an engineer to implement your designs, this isn't the right fit. People who optimize for pixel-perfect mockups over shipped product. We value speed and iteration. If you spend a week in Figma before touching code, you'll be frustrated here. Someone who needs a lot of structure or process. We don't have a design team...
Firecrawl helps AI systems search, scrape, and interact with the web through one API that turns websites into clean, LLM-ready data. It is an open source infrastructure layer powering AI applications with live web data.
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