Design Engineer

Overview

Build Sarvam's web experiences, starting with the marketing website (homepage, product and use-case pages, interactive demos and calculators), as a frontend developer with a designer's eye.

What you'll do

• Build the interface, not just the mockup: write production-ready Astro and React components with thoughtful layouts, typography and responsive behaviour, owning the implementation from first prototype to the final browser-sized detail.
• Build a UI system that holds together: create reusable components, layout primitives and shared styles with clear APIs and sensible variants.
• Make it feel right: build interactions, transitions and animations, and handle keyboard use, loading, empty and error states, reduced motion and failure cases.
• Prototype in code: explore alternative layouts and interactions with designers, test ideas in the browser and refine details together.
• Build the useful bits properly: develop interactive demos, calculators and forms, connect them to APIs and content, and handle state, validation, asynchronous behaviour and failures.
• Keep accessibility, performance, metadata and measurement working as part of what you ship.
• Own engineering quality: make sound choices on component structure, rendering and hydration, debug browser and performance issues, write appropriate tests, review code and check preview deployments.
• Work with engineering on staging and production releases.

What you'll need

• Have built and shipped interfaces you are proud to put your name on; show the actual thing, the code and the decisions made (a live link is preferred over a written description).
• Strong HTML, CSS, JavaScript and TypeScript fundamentals and hands-on React experience.
• Ability to work effectively in Astro and reason about component composition, state, rendering and browser behaviour.
• A good eye for visual design and the CSS skills to act on it: spacing, type, hierarchy, responsive layouts and interaction details.
• Able to work across design and engineering: start from a rough brief, prototype options, discuss trade-offs with designers, and implement an established design faithfully.
• Able to debug an unfamiliar frontend, integrate APIs, and use Git, pull requests and automated checks confidently.
• Understanding of accessibility and web performance, and responsible handling of credentials and user data.
• Use AI coding tools with judgement: read the diff, test the result and be able to explain what you are shipping.
• Ask good questions when the brief is fuzzy, explain trade-offs, suggest a practical way forward and use evidence before declaring that something needs fixing.

Nice to have

• Built for B2B SaaS, developer tools or AI products.
• Built component libraries, design systems or interactive prototypes that other people actually use.
• Worked with animation, SVG, Canvas or other techniques that make complex ideas easier to explore on the web.
• Used a headless CMS such as Sanity, or worked on technical SEO and analytics integrations without letting them take over the frontend.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru.
• Application: send a couple of interfaces or web projects built, with a short note on what was personally designed and coded, and walk through one component, interaction or engineering decision; code samples welcome.
• Tools used: GitHub for code review, Railway for development and pull-request previews, Sanity, ImageKit and PostHog for content, media and measurement.