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## Design Engineer

We're looking for a design engineer to join our team and help us build a fantastic user experience

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Location

Remote, Global

Salary

$100 - $150k USD + Equity

## About Unkey:

Unkey unifies your infrastructure. Deploy APIs instantly, route traffic through global gateways, and understand usage in one place. As a rapidly growing startup, we're looking for passionate engineers who want to shape the future of developer infrastructure.

We are a fully remote and mostly asynchronous company, relying on everyone to take ownership of their work and to lead with action.

We are looking for a Design Engineer with refined taste to help evolve the Unkey product, and brand. We believe code is a tool for designers to solve problems, just like Figma. We want to work with experienced individuals who can take on any challenge and solve it at speed and scale.

## In this role you will...

- Explore designs in Figma and translate it to web-native experiences
- You will be responsible for building complex and interactive UI web/app experiences
- Prototype ideas quickly to test concepts and push the product forward
- Translate customer requests into solutions

## You will be a great fit if you...

- Are great at problem solving
- Can clearly communicate your ideas
- You care about a polished product
- Jump in the code to polish and improve the experience with autonomy

## What it means to join the team:

- Autonomy to "just ship it"
- 100% remote team with flexible working schedules
- Modern tech stack (TailwindCSS, React, Next.js)
- Honest and low-ego team
- Ownership of problems and solutions

### About Unkey

We are building an API development platform, making API's easy to deploy, protect and scale. We care deeply about quality, performance and building in the open. Did we mention we are Open Source?

Our fully remote team of 7 humans spans 5 countries and counting. We're backed by Uncork, Essence, Sunflower Capital, and other top investors.

## Benefits:

- Stock options/equity.
- Inclusive Healthcare Package.
- Flexible Time Off with a recommended 4 or more weeks per year, and paid holidays.
- Fully remote, work from anywhere globally.
- We provide the gear you need.

## Why we may not be a good fit

We're a small, fast-moving startup, and this environment isn't for everyone. You might not enjoy working with us if:

- You prefer well-defined structures and processes. We're building these as we go, and you'll need to be comfortable with ambiguity.
- You're looking for extensive management oversight. We expect everyone to be self-directed and take ownership of their work. When you see something that needs fixing, we expect you to own it end-to-end and drive it to completion.
- You want to focus solely on coding. Building a startup requires wearing multiple hats and contributing beyond your core role.
- You have a big ego. There's no room for "rock stars" who can't take feedback or collaborate.
- You're not comfortable with rapid change. Our priorities and approaches evolve quickly as we learn from our customers.
- You prefer to wait for perfect information before making decisions. We often need to move fast with incomplete data.

We believe in being transparent about our environment and expectations. The right person for this role will be excited by these challenges rather than discouraged by them.

## How to Apply:

Send us an email at jobs@unkey.com telling us why you're excited about developer tooling and infrastructure. We'd love to hear about:

- Your perspective on the current state of developer tools
- Any personal pain points you've experienced that motivate you to work in this space
- Relevant projects or systems you've built that align with our mission
- Your GitHub profile (if you have public work you'd like to share)

We value thoughtful, genuine responses over formal applications. The best candidates are those who are genuinely passionate about empowering developers.

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