Frontend Engineer – UI Designer, Developer Tooling

SearchApi

Builder-designer hybrid role focused on designing and building developer tools at SearchApi. Responsible for product features from design to implementation with real impact.

Posted 6/22/2026full-timeRemote • 🇱🇹 LithuaniaMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

DjangoJavaScriptLaravelRuby on Rails

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design and ship, not hand off. Take a feature from Figma to a merged PR: ViewComponents, Stimulus controllers, Tailwind, the whole thing.
Own the dashboard. The logged-in experience: usage analytics, request history, billing, API keys. Make a data-dense console feel calm instead of cluttered.
Build interactive API playgrounds. Where a developer fires a real request and watches structured JSON come back live. Make it the thing people screenshot and share.
Own the docs and marketing experience. Keep the component system coherent, fast, and beautiful as the product grows week over week.
Build honest data viz. Turn raw metrics into charts a developer trusts at a glance, using a consistent, semantic color system.
Hold the line on craft. Native HTML first, Turbo Frames over client-side state, Tailwind over inline styles. Push Hotwire to its limits before reaching for a dependency.
Clean up as you go. Tame the JavaScript bundle, kill dead CSS and one-off controllers before they pile up.
You own the front end. We don't hand you pixel-perfect specs. You decide what deserves polish now and what ships good-enough, and you make the call.

Requirements

What you’ll need

You design and build. You've shipped frontend you also designed, and it looked genuinely good. Not "good for an engineer." Good.
Hotwire-native, or close. Fluent in a server-rendered, component-based stack (Rails + Hotwire ideal; Phoenix/LiveView, Django, or Laravel translate). You reach for native HTML before JavaScript.
Tailwind cold. Real opinions about spacing, type scale, and color systems.
You love developer tools. You have a favorite dashboard and an API console you think is beautiful, and you can say exactly why.
Great writer. You can explain a design tradeoff in a PR description without needing a meeting.
Self-directed. You take a vague "make this nicer," turn it into a plan, and ship it.
Fluent in English, written and spoken.
Production frontend you designed and built yourself, with links to show it.
Strong with a server-rendered, component-based stack (Rails + Hotwire strongly preferred).
Fluent in Tailwind (or a similar utility CSS) and a real design tool like Figma.
You've designed or redesigned a real SaaS dashboard or developer console that's live today.
Experience with ViewComponent, Stimulus, or a design system you maintained yourself.
Data-dense charts and a feel for honest data visualization, not just pretty gradients.
You've cleaned up a real JavaScript bundle or wired up frontend error tracking, with a before/after to show.
You contribute to design in public: a portfolio site you built, or open-source UI work.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Fully Remote. Work from anywhere.
Equity share. Own a piece of what you're building.
Profit sharing. When we win, you win.
Learn from the founder. Understand how a real SaaS business grows.
Annual team retreats (last one in Spain).

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Hard Skills & Tools

HotwireRailsTailwindFigmaJavaScriptViewComponentStimulusAPI developmentdata visualizationcomponent-based architecture

Soft Skills

self-directedgreat writerdesign tradeoff explanationcommunicationproblem-solvingattention to detailcreativityorganizational skillscollaborationadaptability