Frontend Engineer & UI Designer (Developer Tooling)
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Remote - Lithuania
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Frontend
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 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.
Full description
Frontend Engineer & UI Designer (Developer Tooling)
We are looking for a builder-designer hybrid who makes a developer-facing product feel premium. You design it in Figma and ship it yourself in Hotwire. If you sweat the 200ms of jank nobody else notices, and you have both the taste to design the thing and the skill to build it in production, this role is for you.
About SearchApi
SearchApi is a real-time SERP API delivering structured data from 100+ search engines and sources, including Google Search, Google Shopping, Google Jobs, Bing, Baidu, YouTube, Amazon, and many more. We power production workloads for Fortune 500 companies and fast-moving startups who need reliable search data at scale.
We're a lean, profitable, bootstrapped team. No VC pressure, no bloat. Just engineers shipping real products to real customers.
🎯 Why Join Us?
- You own what developers judge us by. The dashboard, the API playground, the docs, the marketing site. The first impression of our product is your work.
- Design and build, no handoff. You take a feature from a Figma mockup to a merged PR yourself. No designs thrown over a wall.
- Real impact. A small team means your work shows up directly in signups, activation, and revenue.
- The best users to design for. You build developer tools for engineers, the most demanding and rewarding audience there is.
- Bootstrapped and Profitable. We answer to customers, not investors.
We'd rather hire one person with taste who can ship than a designer and a frontend developer who need a handoff between them.
💻 Tech Stack
- Ruby on Rails 8 with Hotwire (Turbo + Stimulus)
- Tailwind CSS and ViewComponent
- esbuild for JavaScript
- Figma for design
- Native HTML first (<dialog>, <details>), Turbo Frames over single-page-app frameworks
We use Cursor, Claude, GitHub, and Slack daily. We ship multiple times a day with CI/CD.
🤖 You Control AI, AI Doesn't Control You
We ship faster because we use AI tools aggressively, Cursor and Claude. You scaffold components, generate layouts, and iterate on design variations with AI. But you own every pixel and every line that lands. You can tell when an AI-generated layout is generic slop and turn it into something with taste. If you can't, you're not ready for this role.
💪 What You'll Do
- Design and ship, not hand off. Take a feature from Figma to a merged PR: ViewComponents, Stimulus controllers, Tailwind, the whole thing.