Staff Design Engineer

Aave Labs is a company focused on building innovative products leveraging blockchain technologies. They are seeking a Staff Design Engineer who will design and build high-quality UI for their web products, while collaborating with designers and engineers to solve complex UX problems.

Responsibilities:

• Work autonomously across our web products, designing and building high-quality UI with a strong point of view on how it should feel and function
• Own and evolve complex, reusable components within the Aave design system — setting the standard for quality and consistency
• Bring product-level thinking to everything you work on — understanding user needs, business context, and technical constraints, whilst balancing them well
• Collaborate with our talented designers, engineers, and product leads to bring clarity to ambiguous problems
• Help raise the bar for the team through the quality of your work and the way you approach problems

Requirements:

• A true hybrid — equally at home in Figma and a TypeScript codebase, and who sees that as a single discipline, not two
• Strong proficiency in React, TypeScript, CSS and system design and architecture
• Deep experience with component-driven design systems and building for consistency at scale
• The product sense to work without a detailed brief — you can identify what needs to be solved, not just how to solve it
• A demonstrated ability to take complex UX problems — information-dense interfaces, multi-step flows, edge cases — and make them feel resolved and clear
• Curiosity about web3 and DeFi is a plus; you don't need to be an expert, but genuine interest in the space goes a long way
• Curiosity about AI and it's use in product design and daily workflows