> Markdown version of [/jobs/ext/1894730-design-engineer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/jobs/ext/1894730-design-engineer). Every page supports `.md` or `Accept: text/markdown`. Links point to the HTML versions so they work for humans too. Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Design Engineer - **Company:** Toast, Inc. - **Location:** Boston, MA, United States - **Salary:** $193,000.0 - $309,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Adobe InDesign, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Backend, Material UI, Front End Software Development - **Published:** August 1, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/349e1e10-df7d-4331-87ce-9dace31054d3 ## About the Role * You're equally comfortable designing and building and you ship real front-end code, not just mockups. * Strong front-end engineering skills: you can build production-quality UI, and you care about maintainability, performance, and accessibility. (Fullstack experience is a strong plus.) * Amazing at the craft of design: you think in user flows, borrow from analogous problem spaces to invent delightful solutions, and know instinctively where an experience needs to shine versus where scrappy is good enough. * Demonstrated ability to move from ambiguity to a strong point of view, then turn that into tangible, coded UI flows quickly with modern tools. * Demonstrated strength translating complex workflows and high volumes of inputs/data into interfaces that are simple, scannable, and decision-oriented. * Strong product thinking: you can connect user needs, business outcomes, and feasibility into a cohesive experience. * You think in systems and can build reusable, maintainable UI components. * High comfort working in 0?1 environments where priorities shift, learning is the output, and "done" is an iteration-not a finish line. * Ability to work as a team-of-one design engineer: self-directed, organized, and proactive about aligning stakeholders. * You have a clear pattern of using AI tools to accelerate your work-exploration, iteration, prototyping, coding, critique, synthesis, or communication-and you can speak specifically about how you use them to ship better work faster. Special sauce* (nice to haves) * You've worked on early-stage products, internal incubations, or rapid experimentation teams. * You've shipped polished products and have a portfolio (and ideally code) you can point to and say "I designed and built that." * Fullstack range-you're comfortable owning backend, APIs, or data work in addition to the front end. * You're excited about AI and want to help define new interaction paradigms for how hospitality businesses run. * Background in design or formal design training, alongside your engineering chops. ## Related Videos - [Learn Enough Design to Be Dangerous](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/577-learn-enough-design-to-be-dangerous) - [Building a component library for modern challenges](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/650-building-a-component-library-for-modern-challenges) - [Developing the Backend with Stefan Lingler, CTO at Shpock](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100360-developing-the-backend-with-stefan-lingler-cto-at-shpock) - [Building the Next Generation of Software](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100186-building-the-next-generation-of-software) - [Can SVG be fast? Rendering a scatter chart with over 10k points](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100299-can-svg-be-fast-rendering-a-scatter-chart-with-over-10k-points) - [Nest.js - TypeScript in the backend can also be clean](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1033-nest-js-typescript-in-the-backend-can-also-be-clean) ## Related Articles - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [Navigating the AI Shift](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/629-navigating-the-ai-shift) - [Dev Digest 130 - The Diablo is in the details](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/470-dev-digest-130-the-diablo-is-in-the-details) - [Dev Digest 122 - Cracks in the polyfill](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/457-dev-digest-122-cracks-in-the-polyfill) - [Dev Digest 133 - Back to Front](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/474-dev-digest-133-back-to-front) - [Dev Digest 121 - AI goes offline](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/456-dev-digest-121-ai-goes-offline)