Design Engineer
Fireflies.ai
Software Engineering, Design
India · Cape Town, South Africa · Budapest, Hungary · Lisbon, Portugal · são paulo, state of são paulo, brazil
Posted on May 8, 2026
Design Engineer
Lisbon • Sao Paolo • Cape town • Budapest • India
Engineering
Remote • Remote
Full-time
Fireflies.ai is the #1 AI assistant for meetings, trusted by over 20 million people across more than 1 million organisations from fast-growing startups to Fortune 500 enterprises. Whether in sales, project management, marketing, operations, or product development, Fireflies is revolutionizing team collaboration by capturing knowledge, automating repetitive tasks, and enhancing productivity before, during, and after every meeting.
Recognized as a category-defining platform, Fireflies has achieved unicorn status with a valuation exceeding $1 billion. Ramp data shows Fireflies is the 6th most purchased AI platform in the US. Chances are, you’ve already seen Fireflies in action, quietly powering one of your recent meetings.
About the Role:
Fireflies.ai is looking for a Design Engineer who brings together strong design taste and solid frontend engineering skills.
In this role, you won’t just design screens or wait for handoff. You’ll spot product experience gaps, design better solutions, and ship them directly to users.
You’ll work closely with the Design team to improve the quality of Fireflies’ most important product surfaces, including the meeting notepad, transcript view, dashboard, and other high-impact workflows.
We’re looking for someone who cares about craft, moves quickly, and knows how to turn good design into production-ready code.
What You’ll Do:
- Improve the UI/UX quality of Fireflies’ highest-traffic product surfaces.
- Design, build, and ship polished frontend improvements.
- Turn design system components and tokens into clean, accessible interfaces.
- Work with the Design team to raise the visual quality bar across the product.
- Use data, customer feedback, and product judgment to identify what needs improvement.
- Build reusable UI patterns that make the product more consistent.
- Make sure what ships feels thoughtful, polished, and true to the design intent.
What We’re Looking For:
- Design taste: You care about spacing, typography, color, hierarchy, and interaction details.
- Frontend skills: You can write clean, maintainable React/TypeScript code.
- Shipping mindset: You’ve built and launched real product experiences for real users.
- Ownership: You can identify problems, prioritize the right fixes, and execute independently.
- Systems thinking: You understand design systems, components, tokens, and scalable UI patterns.
- High craft: You care deeply about quality, take feedback well, and iterate quickly.
- Strong portfolio: You can show work where you designed and built the same product experience.
Values that are important to us:
- You should be a great communicator and culture maintainer
- Take a look at our culture document
- You're data-driven and customer-focused
- You value fast & incremental engineering cycles
- You maintain design excellence and minimize complexity
- You measure your results & automate when possible
- You get 10% better at something every week
- You have agency with your internal compass and take accountability & initiative
- We value overcommunication, candid feedback and a results-driven culture
Perks and Benefits:
- Competitive compensation
- Work remotely anywhere in your respective country
- Ability to move laterally within a team and grow rapidly
- Paid time off and flexible leave policy
- No boss culture
- Flexible working hours
- LGBTQ+ friendly
- Company offsites
- Tech reimbursements
About us:
At Fireflies.ai, we’re revolutionizing the way teams interact with AI in their daily work. Our inclusive culture champions security, innovation, customer experience, and growth. Backed by $19 million from top-tier investors like Canaan, Khosla Ventures, and angels from Slack, Facebook, Dropbox, Amazon, and Salesforce, Fireflies is driven by a passionate 100+ member global team spanning 20+ countries and every timezone. We’re building a world-class, global-first team, and we dogfood our product to do so.
We are an equal opportunity employer and strongly value diversity at our company because our team will be stronger with different perspectives and experiences. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Req ID: R53