Plasmic | Product Designer, Software Engineer | Remote | Full Time
Plasmic (<a href=") is a new visual frontend builder / design tool that integrates with real-world production codebases.
We are an early-stage startup with a tiny but wonderful distributed team from Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Dropbox, MIT, Berkeley, including 3 ex-founders with exits and a couple of ICPC world finalists. We received outlier funding offers from a number of top VCs like NEA and investors in Figma/Framer.
PRODUCT DESIGNER ROLE
Our biggest focus is on our design challenges—we want to make frontend development as broadly accessible as possible. As such we are looking for a senior product designer to join as a member of the formative team. You would be directly shaping the product and its future direction.
Plasmic is a highly interactive tool where users can spend many hours per session. It has an expansive interaction surface area and many deep design challenges, from nitty-gritty interaction design questions like "How should selection work?" to high-level product decisions like "How should dynamic data work?" and "How should users design components in multiple states?"
The role is primarily focused on these conceptual design challenges. You can expect to spend less of your time on visual design and more on thinking through / writing up design docs, as well as making / playtesting prototypes. Background in coding is a plus but not a requirement.
SOFTWARE ENGINEER ROLE
Plasmic is a sprawling application with complex state and interactions, where users can spend hours per session. We face many deep engineering challenges, such as:
- building a robust, performant, and feature-packed design tool on the web
- deep integration with arbitrary codebases
- enabling existing code components to be seamlessly used in the editor, including mining out examples of how to use them
- optimizing for latency in all interactions, even when scaling to large projects
- translating free-form vector graphics from tools like Figma/XD to web standards
- handling dynamic data in the visual editor
We’re looking for one more generalist software engineer to join as a member of the formative team. You would be directly shaping the product and its future direction. You don’t need to be specialized in frontend; more important to us are software engineering foundations and experience.
CONTACT
If this sounds interesting, please get in touch at hiring+REDACTED_EMAIL. We would love to meet you!
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