Design Engineer

About the role

At Lapel, we believe the most hospitable companies win. We're building the data, infrastructure, and tools that help customer-facing teams understand every customer and act on that insight at scale throughout the entire customer lifecycle.

Most internet businesses want to treat customers well, but their tools work against them. We’re building the layer that makes every interaction feel personal again: unifying context, coordinating action, and closing the gap between intent and experience.

It’s a technically ambitious challenge spanning data infrastructure, AI, and systems design – with a deeply human outcome: helping software companies serve people better. We call it hospitality at scale.

We’re well-funded, backed by top-tier investors, and already working with exceptional companies, from fast-growing startups to large enterprises. We’ll share more details when we talk.

About This Role

This is a role for someone who cares as much about how it looks as how it's built, and won't let either one slip. You'll own Lapel's interfaces from concept through implementation, build the design system the product scales on, and be expected to bring craft and technical rigor to everything you touch.

What You’ll Do

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Own end-to-end implementation of product interfaces from Figma to production-ready code

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Design and build a scalable design system with reusable, accessible components

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Collaborate closely with founders and product to shape UX, iterating in both Figma and code

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Build polished, responsive interfaces with strong attention to typography, spacing, motion, and interaction

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Create interactive prototypes to validate design decisions before full implementation

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Write clean, maintainable frontend code using React, TypeScript, and modern styling approaches

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Ensure performance and accessibility are built into every interface

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Set and uphold a high bar for craft, quality, and user experience across the product

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Ship quickly from concept to production while maintaining high standards

Our Stack

Lapel is built end-to-end in TypeScript in a single monorepo.

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React, Vite, and Tailwind on the frontend;

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Node.js and Postgres on the backend;

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Temporal and Pulsar to power orchestration.

We ship quickly, and care about creating a developer experience where anyone can prototype, experiment, and get ideas into production fast.

You’ll Thrive in This Role If You

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Have 5+ years of experience building product interfaces with both design and frontend ownership

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Have owned large-scale, enterprise products end-to-end