Design Engineer (UI/UX)

About the Company

Kinship makes software for architects and engineering teams. We take complex, data-dense professional workflows and turn them into clean, fast, and delightful interfaces.

Responsibilities

• Own the design of features end to end, from problem definition to developer-ready UI
• Turn complex, data-heavy workflows into simple and helpful interfaces
• Build and evolve the design system in Figma using components, variants, and tokens
• Document work thoroughly, including states, edge cases, and interactions
• Prototype interactions to pressure-test motion and behavior
• Collaborate closely with engineers and help grow the design team

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience designing software products with structured data
• Mastery of Figma for both design and documentation (components, auto-layout, variables)
• Proven ability to document and hand off clean, complete files to engineers
• Strong eye for typography, spacing, hierarchy, and edge cases
• Experience collaborating within a product team

Preferred Qualifications

• Comfort with Framer for high-fidelity interaction prototyping
• Ability to read and tweak HTML & CSS
• Experience building or owning a design system