# Design Engineer at Hotplate

- Company: Hotplate
- What the company does: Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: http://www.hotplate.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco Office
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $180K to $210K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-21
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hotplate/c3aac87f-3f15-4103-a278-18c3a9b83330
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/hotplate-design-engineer/

## About the role

As Hotplate's first design engineer, you'll own how the product looks and feels for thousands of chefs and millions of customers. We have a design system and reusable components, but developing a clean UI for most projects — and spending the time to think it through — is still one of the biggest slowdowns in feature development.

## What they're looking for

- You're equally comfortable in Figma and your code editor
- You have strong front-end engineering skills (TypeScript, React, SolidJS, CSS, animations)
- You have an eye for design details and care deeply about craft
- You've shipped polished products and know what it takes to get from 90% to 100%
- You can move fast – prototyping ideas in hours, not days
- You think in systems and can build reusable, maintainable UI components

Tags: Engineering