Senior/Staff Design Engineer at Grow Therapy in San Francisco, CA

About Us:

Grow Therapy is on a mission to serve as the trusted partner for therapists growing their practice, and patients accessing high-quality care. Powered by technology, we are a three-sided marketplace that empowers providers, augments insurance payors, and serves patients. Following the mass increase in depression and anxiety, the need for accessibility is more important than ever. To make our vision for mental healthcare a reality, we’re building a team of entrepreneurs and mission-driven go-getters. Since launching in February 2021, we’ve empowered more than ten thousand therapists and hundreds of thousands of clients across the country and insurance landscape. We’ve raised more than $178mm of funding from Sequoia Capital, Transformation Capital, TCV, SignalFire, and others.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Design Engineer to raise the bar on interaction quality, motion, and polish across our product. This role sits at the intersection of design and engineering — you'll work directly with designers and engineers to ship new features that feel crafted, consistent, and human.

You'll embed across product teams to support high-impact work from ideation through launch, owning the interaction quality layer and ensuring a high level of polish in everything we ship. Beyond new feature development, you’ll proactively identify and address gaps in production — fixing visual bugs, refining interactions, and improving overall UI quality across the product.

You’ll also help define motion and interaction patterns that scale, contribute to design system improvements, and partner with our frontend platform team to close the gap between design intent and production reality. This is a foundational role for building a world-class product surface and elevating our craft as we scale.

What You’ll Do

• Embed across various product teams to support high-impact work, partnering with designers and engineers from ideation to launch.
• Prototype and build interaction-rich experiences that bring design concepts to life in production.
• Collaborate with product designers and product managers to identify opportunities and explore solutions.
• Define motion and interaction standards that scale across the product.
• Proactively identify and execute on opportunities that raise the overall quality bar for visual polish, interaction, and frontend craft across the company.
• Audit and improve production UI by identifying and fixing visual bugs, inconsistencies, and interaction gaps.
• Contribute to design system improvements in partnership with design and the frontend platform team.

What You Bring

• 5+ years of frontend or UX engineering experience, ideally in consumer or product-focused companies.
• Excellent sense of visual and interaction design, with an eye for spacing, typography, motion, and delightful details.
• Experience collaborating closely with designers throughout the entire product development process.
• Ability to prototype quickly and translate ambiguous ideas into tangible interfaces.
• Ability to build scalable component libraries, design systems, or reusable UI frameworks.
• Fluency in modern JavaScript/TypeScript, Next, React, CSS systems, and component architecture.
• An understanding of accessibility (WCAG) and web performance considerations.
• A systems mindset seeing patterns, simplifying complexity, and designing for long-term reuse.
• Strong communication skills and ability to influence product direction and UI standards.
• A passion for building delightful, consumer-grade user experiences.
• Founder’s mindset - ownership, speed, scrappiness, resilience, bias toward action.

Why This Role Matters

As we scale our product and organization, the need for consistent, high-quality UI becomes critical. A dedicated Design Engineer ensures we can continue to ship beautiful, intuitive experiences, while giving every team the tools and frameworks they need to move faster without compromising quality.

This role will be foundational in shaping our product’s visual identity, strengthening our design-engineering partnership, and building a consumer-grade experience that sets the industry standard.

Role Details:

Employment Type: Full Time, Exempt Base Compensation: The base compensation range for this position is:

• Hybrid Commitment: $182,000–$250,000 USD USD Annually

This role is hybrid, onsite from our NYC, San Francisco, or Seattle hub location.

The base compensation for this role will vary depending on several factors, including relevant experience, qualifications, and the candidate’s working location.

Full Time Employee Benefits:

• Comprehensive Health Coverage: Medical, dental, and vision insurance, plus life and disability coverage.
• Parental Leave & Family Support: Up to 18 weeks paid leave and a new child stipend.
• Financial Wellness: 401(k) program and equity opportunities.
• Meals & Home Office Support: Stipends for home office setup and ongoing funds for meals, with tailored perks for both remote and in-office employees.
• Time Off to Recharge: Flexible PTO, 12 paid holidays, and a full winter break week.
• Wellness & Development: Annual stipends to put towards personal & professional growth.
• Mental & Physical Health Support: No-cost access to therapy through the Grow platform, weekly flexible hours for self-care (“Mental Health Mornings/Afternoons”) and memberships to leading wellness apps (such as One Medical, Headspace, and Talkspace).
• Extra Perks: Pet insurance discounts, commuter benefits, and global travel assistance.

Research shows that some groups hesitate to apply unless they meet every qualification. If you’re excited about this role but don’t check every box, we encourage you to apply. At Grow, we value diverse experiences, transferable skills, and the unique strengths each person brings.

Grow Therapy is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

Use of AI Tools: By submitting your application, you acknowledge and consent to the use of automated tools as part of our recruitment process. Specifically, we use a third-party AI tool,Gem, to assist in the initial screening of resumes. This tool analyzes resumes based on role-specific criteria provided by our recruiters to identify potentially strong matches for the role. Importantly, no hiring decisions are made by the AI tool. All decisions about which candidates move forward are made by our human recruiting team after independent review.More information about Gem’s approach to compliance with California FEHA regulations on automated decision systems and New York Local Law 144 can be found on the Gem compliance website.We are committed to transparency and fairness in our hiring practices. If you have questions about how our AI tools work, or would like more information about how your application will be processed, please contact us at talentops@growtherapy.com. If you require an accommodation due to a disability, or have concerns about the use of AI in the hiring process, please also contact us. We are happy to provide assistance or offer an alternative method of participating in the recruitment process.