Staff Design Engineer

#### How you can make an impact:

• Work autonomously across our web products, designing and building high-quality UI with a strong point of view on how it should feel and function

• Own and evolve complex, reusable components within the Aave design system — setting the standard for quality and consistency

• Bring product-level thinking to everything you work on — understanding user needs, business context, and technical constraints, whilst balancing them well

• Collaborate with our talented designers, engineers, and product leads to bring clarity to ambiguous problems

• Help raise the bar for the team through the quality of your work and the way you approach problems

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#### Let's connect if you have:

• A true hybrid — equally at home in Figma and a TypeScript codebase, and who sees that as a single discipline, not two

• Strong proficiency in React, TypeScript, CSS and system design and architecture.

• Deep experience with component-driven design systems and building for consistency at scale

• The product sense to work without a detailed brief — you can identify what needs to be solved, not just how to solve it

• A demonstrated ability to take complex UX problems — information-dense interfaces, multi-step flows, edge cases — and make them feel resolved and clear

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#### Nice to haves:

• Curiosity about web3 and DeFi is a plus; you don't need to be an expert, but genuine interest in the space goes a long way

• Curiosity about AI and it's use in product design and daily workflows