Design Engineer

Summary

At Facebook, Design Engineers solve complex Product Design problems with Engineering skills. This is a unique, specialized role with a mandate to support efforts around quality and craft, improve design systems and tools, and help launch 0-1 product concepts and ideas that are reviewed by leadership and used to conduct user research around the world.

Required Skills

Design Engineer Responsibilities:

• Works with full-stack software teams to realize designs into experiences and will validate or discard hypotheses by testing new designs and concepts with advanced prototypes
• Develop and iterate rapid models of proposed design solutions for the purposes of communication and evaluation across cross-functional teams
• Improve tools and drive quality and craft initiatives in an effort to up-level the look and feel of the Facebook App
• Translate static designs (both hi-fidelity and wire-frame) into end-to-end, interactive prototypes that can be used in research, critique, reviews with leadership, and public-facing product announcements.
• Present work to peers, product teams and executive leadership/stakeholders

Minimum Qualification

Minimum Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience shipping software products
• Experience in full lifecycle of design and development -- including ideation, prototyping, development, backwards compatibility, failovers, validation, and user research
• Understanding of design principles and the knowledge to build experiences that span mobile and desktop browsers and native platforms
• Experience with front-end technologies and prototyping tools, including Origami Studio, Figma, PHP, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript frameworks (e.g., React, React Native, NodeJS)
• A solid portfolio of things you've designed and built across a range of platforms, including native and web-based applications

Preferred Qualification

Preferred Qualifications:

• You've built (and shipped) something - an app, an MVP, a proof of concept, etc.
• A portfolio that shows a range of technical skills and a creative use of code

EOE

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