Design Engineer

About the role

Design Engineer at Bolto

Seattle, SF, NYC, Remote - Full-time

$115,000–$175,000 + equity

Design, build, and ship.

Bolto brings AI-native recruiting, payroll, and HR together so companies can hire, pay, and support their teams around the world.

We’re building the next generation of workforce software (AI-native Workday) and design is central to how it works. HR has historically had a UI/UX problem. You will help us solve that!

We’re hiring a Design Engineer to own experiences from the first sketch through production. You’ll work with mostly product, but also marketing, to deliver strong visual judgment on features along with polished interfaces.

Payroll and HR involve complex workflows and consequential decisions. Your job is to make them clear: help someone understand what needs attention, complete a task confidently, and know what happens next.

You’ll also shape how people first encounter Bolto through landing pages, interactive demos, and brand experiences. You’ll influence both what we build and how we build it.

What you’ll own

Product design and implementation

Design and build interfaces for recruiting, payroll, and HR workflows. Think through the complete experience, including navigation, information hierarchy, forms, tables, and loading, empty, error, and success states. Carry the details through to production.

Prototypes and interaction design

Turn ideas into working prototypes to test flows and explore alternatives. Use design tools, code, and AI where they help you move faster. Refine the interactions, responsiveness, and visual details that make a product feel finished.

Our design system

Build reusable components, design tokens, and documentation that keep the product consistent as it grows. Work with engineering to improve frontend foundations and make high-quality interfaces easier to ship.

Website and go-to-market design

Create landing pages and interactive experiences that explain Bolto clearly and help turn interest into customer conversations. Extend the brand into social content, event materials, and merchandise as needed.

Your first 90 days

**First 30 days: Learn the product and ship a feature.**

Get familiar with our customers, core workflows, and frontend codebase. Review the product alongside the team, identify a high-impact usability issue, and take a scoped improvement from design into production.

**By day 60: Own the Bolto experience.**

Lead product flows or substantial interface improvements from problem definition through implementation. Test assumptions with users or customer-facing teammates, handle the important edge cases, and contribute reusable components to the design system.

**By day 90: Establish a repeatable way to ship great work.**

Independently own design and implementation for a meaningful area of the product. Help prioritize the next set of improvements, strengthen our shared components, and show how your work improves clarity, usability, or conversion.