Design Engineer

About the role

ABOUT CIRCLEBACK

Circleback is building the source of truth for everything said at a company–starting with best-in-class https://time.com/charter/6987522/the-best-ai-note-taking-tools-for-meetings/ AI meeting notes, action items, and search.

Every company runs on conversations — meetings, calls, emails — but almost none of that context is usable after the fact. We’re building the platform that captures, organizes, and acts on all of it, so teams can actually use what they know.

We're a small team backed by Y Combinator. Profitable, growing virally, and thousands of paying customers including PostHog, Browserbase, Gumloop, and more.

WHY JOIN

- We ship fast https://circleback.ai/releases with a high bar for quality.

- Small team, large problem: the category we're building didn't exist a few years ago.

- Profitable and growing virally through word of mouth, not paid acquisition.

- Build software people actually love https://circleback.ai/#testimonials and use every day.

- Free lunch and dinners, competitive salary and equity.

- Flexible health coverage and 401K matching.

We're looking for a design engineer who obsesses over how software looks and feels to join us in San Francisco. You'll own the product surface end-to-end–from concept to pixel-perfect production code–and make Circleback's design go from really good to elite.

WHY DESIGN AT CIRCLEBACK

Design is core to Circleback’s strategy. We’re product-led, and one of the hardest problems we have is making something powerful enough for sophisticated teams while still feeling simple and intuitive to anyone who opens it.

You’ll have a huge amount of ownership over what Circleback looks and feels like. One of your first priorities will be establishing and codifying our design system, then carrying it consistently across web, Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android. You’ll work directly with a small engineering team that cares deeply about craft and wants to push the product bar higher.

From there, the problems get much more open-ended. We already have customers with 500+ seats using Circleback to search and reference what’s been said across their company. The next step is helping them make sense of all of that context without having to go looking for it: proactively organizing, synthesizing, and surfacing what matters. There isn’t an established interface for this yet. You’ll help invent it.

Longer term, Circleback is becoming much more than a meeting note-taker. We’re building the operational source of truth for a team: a horizontal product that can understand and represent everything from a candidate or customer to a project or decision across dozens of conversations. That means designing flexible primitives like tables, charts, and workflows, while figuring out how those building blocks should adapt to completely different kinds of work.

You’ll also work on growth and because Circleback grows through the product itself, seemingly small improvements to onboarding, activation, and collaboration can have an outsized impact on the business.