About the company
Cortex helps engineering teams ship better software faster. We're an AI-powered Internal Developer Portal that enforces reliability standards across every team automatically.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to raising the design bar at Cortex: Work with the design team to push the boundaries of our design and user experience.
- Continuous improvement and animation: Look for opportunities to ensure no part of the product falls below standard best practices, including reducing papercuts, iterating on clunky user experiences, polishing microinteractions, and adding appropriate UI animation.
- Design system ownership: Own the design system end-to-end, in both Figma and code.
- Prototype: Assist the design team, product management team, and engineering teams in rapid prototyping when a high fidelity prototype is the best tool to illustrate functionality.
- Ship feature additions and fixes: Design and ship UI-heavy features across the product surface area, ensuring components are performant and well-tested.
- Attention to detail: Regularly identify areas of inconsistency and incompleteness, and proactively work to make our product feel polished and professional.
Requirements
- 5-7+ years working at the intersection of design and code in a product-led company.
- Either owned or been a major contributor to a design system before.
- Deep experience with React, TypeScript, and Tailwind is preferred.
- Portfolio of work (or GitHub profile) that clearly demonstrates skill and attention to detail in both product design and frontend development.
- Passionate about creating beautiful, useful, and usable interfaces guided by user feedback.