LaTeam Partners company
Position: Senior Frontend Design Engineer
Company: SUBLIME
https://sublime.app/
Type of Position: Contractor
Location: Remote
The Role
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We're looking for a Senior Frontend Design Engineer who sees code as a craft, not just a skill. Someone who obsesses over the implementation details that transform good experiences into sublime ones. Some-one who understands that the 10px of padding, the milliseconds of animation timing, and the nuanced interaction states aren't just details—they're everything.
You embody what some might call a Design Engineer—living at the intersection of both engineering and design practices, using a broad understanding of both to build with significant autonomy, practice and teach great software craft, and elevate the final fidelity of what's made from start to end.
About Sublime
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Sublime is reimagining how we collect, connect, and create with the knowledge that matters most to us.
In a world where the average productivity tool feels like an airplane cockpit, we're building something that feels more like a yoga studio—clean, focused, and intentionally designed to help you think better.
Our thesis is that traditional knowledge management tools are falling short—they're soulless, complex, and often don't deliver on their promises. We're creating the perfect blend of a utility-focused tool with the aliveness and connectivity of a thoughtful social network.
Over the past few years, we've cultivated a community of 30,000+ of the internet's most interesting thinkers and creatives. Now we're building the perfect product to serve them.
We are backed by incredible investors including Betaworks, Lux Capital, Flybridge, Animo VC, and many others.
What You’ll Do
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• Craft exceptional UI experiences that feel alive, responsive, and delightful
• Collaborate deeply with design to eliminate the traditional handoff process, working itera-tively in Figma and code
• Own and extend our design system, ensuring component reusability, consistency, and flexi-bility
• Build new features with beautiful and scalable UI components that achieve 100% fidelity from design to implementation
• Optimize performance at every level—from page load to interactions to animations
• Advocate for accessibility and inclusive design throughout our product
• Explore and implement AI enhancements that augment our users' creative capabilities with-out getting in their way
• Work closely with our small, talented team to continually raise the bar for product excel-lence
What You Have
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Must-Haves
• 8+ years of frontend development experience building complex web applications
• Deep expertise with modern React patterns and practices
• Strong eye for design details and interaction nuance
• Technical proficiency with:
o TypeScript
o React
o HTML, CSS3, and JavaScript
o State management (MobX, Redux, Flux, or similar)
o Next.js
o Vercel
o GraphQL
• Experience building and maintaining design systems
• Ability to translate high-fidelity designs into pixel-perfect implementations
• Strong communication skills and ability to articulate technical concepts clearly
• A portfolio or examples that demonstrate your attention to detail and craft
Nice-to-Haves
• Experience with:
o React Native
o Django template language (DTL)
o CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
o Cloud services (S3, CloudFront)
o Firebase
• Knowledge of modern AI integrations in frontend experiences
• Experience with WebGL, Canvas, or other advanced visualization techniques
• Open source contributions
• Background in design or design systems
Our Values
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Give a Shit Inspired by a memo from Alexandr Wang, we hire people who genuinely care about their craft. We approach our work with a maniacal drive that continually raises the bar for product excel-lence.
No BS We believe it's more important to work on the right thing than to work many hours. We strip away the bullshit in everything we do. For customers, that means no default-ON notifications or un-skippable ads. For us as a company, it means no meetings when an email will do and keeping our team as small and mighty as possible.
Stay Creative Defaulting to industry norms will only make us blend in. The best companies zero in on their unique self-expression. We strive to stay creative, overcome defaults, and constantly reimagine the status quo—all in service of delivering joy and bringing more originality to our business.
What We Offer
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• Competitive salary and meaningful equity
• Flexible work hours and PTO
• Fully remote work environment
• Professional development stipend
• The freedom to define your ideal schedule and work environment
• A chance to build something that thousands of people truly love
