Certa

The Opportunity At Certa, we are building the AI-native Operating System for global enterprise relationships. We have the clients (Fortune 100/500) and the robust backend technology. Now, under the guidance of our new Head of Design, we are elevating our experience to match the best consumer products in the world. We are looking for our First Design Engineer. You are the "missing link" between our pragmatic engineering requirements and our ambitious design vision. You won't just implement tickets; you will define how our product feels.

The Role This is not a standard Frontend Engineer role, nor is it a Product Designer role. This role is equal parts: Craft-focused Frontend Engineering: You write production-grade code, but you obsess over the details that others miss. Systems Thinking: You don't just build components; you build the architecture (Design System) that allows the rest of the team to build beautiful UI faster. Figma-to-Code Mastery: You bridge the gap between static Figma files and dynamic browser realities, moving fluidly between design and implementation.

What You Will Do

1. Architect the Design System & UI Patterns Take ownership of our internal design system. You will treat it as an internal product, creating a type-safe, accessible, and composable library in React & TypeScript. Manage the tokens, components, patterns, documentation, and governance required to scale design across a remote engineering team. Bridge the gap between Figma Variables/Tokens and code, ensuring a single source of truth for our visual language.
2. Make AI-Native UX Feel Trustworthy & Human Implement interaction patterns specifically for AI workflows: streaming states, progressive disclosure, and optimistic UI. Build for "explainability" and human-in-the-loop controls, ensuring users trust the system even when it automates complex tasks. Make complexity feel simple—especially when the system is performing sophisticated "smart" operations in the background.
3. Maximize Output with AI-Assisted Tooling Hyper-automate the mundane: Use AI coding assistants (Cursor, Copilot, etc.) to handle boilerplate and scaffolding, allowing you to spend 80% of your time on the 20% of the "feel" and "craft." Build tooling and guardrails (linting rules, visual checks, component playground workflows) that help the team ship high-fidelity UI consistently.
4. Bridge Design & Code (Figma-First) Live in Figma: You are expected to be as comfortable in Figma as you are in VS Code. You’ll tweak layouts, design missing states, and refine prototypes yourself. Push performance beyond just metrics: focus on rendering, bundle size, perceived speed, and interaction responsiveness. Raise the bar on accessibility and cross-browser behavior, ensuring the product is usable by everyone.

Must Haves

1. Expert Figma Skills: This is a primary requirement. You should be fluent in auto-layout, components, variables, and prototyping. You view Figma as a design environment and a technical spec.
2. AI-Assisted Workflow: You are a "power user" of AI tools (Cursor, Copilot, v0, etc.). You know how to leverage AI to move faster without sacrificing the quality of the final output.
3. Strong Frontend Foundation: Deep expertise in React + TypeScript with a track record of shipping complex, data-heavy UIs in production.
4. Demonstrated UI Craft: A portfolio showing obsession with spacing, typography, interaction detail, and motion. You likely have a "Folder of Inspiration" from the best apps in the world.
5. Design System Experience: Strong experience building and maintaining a design system: tokens, components, patterns, and documentation.
6. Accessibility Expertise: You build keyboard-first UX, understand screen reader behavior, and enforce correct ARIA usage by default.
7. Modern Tooling: Experience with Vite and modern frontend tooling; comfortable setting up and customizing JS tooling/build systems.

Why You? (The "Craft" Factor)

1. You are inspired by the design-engineering cultures of companies like Linear, Vercel, Family, or Arc (The Browser Company).
2. You get annoyed when a modal closes without an exit animation.
3. You understand that latency is a UX problem, and you use optimistic UI updates to make the app feel instant.
4. You believe enterprise software doesn't have to look like a spreadsheet from 2005—it should feel as fluid as the best consumer apps.
5. You are an "AI-augmented" engineer who uses modern tools to do the work of three people while maintaining the taste of an artisan.

About Certa

 Certa is a leading innovator in the no-code SaaS workflow space, powering the full lifecycle for suppliers, partners, and third parties. From onboarding and risk assessment to contract management and ongoing monitoring, Certa enables businesses with automation, collaborative workflows, and continuously updated insights. Join us in our mission to revolutionize third-party management!

What You'll Do

• Partner closely with Customer Success Managers to understand client workflows, identify quality gaps, and ensure smooth solution delivery.
• Design, implement, and execute both manual and automated tests for client-facing workflows across our web platform.
• Write robust and maintainable test scripts using Python (Selenium) to validate workflows, integrations, and configurations.
• Own test planning for client-specific features, including writing clear test cases and sanity scenarios — even in the absence of detailed specs.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Customer Success teams to reproduce client-reported issues, root-cause them, and verify fixes.
• Lead or contribute to exploratory testing, regression cycles, and release validations before client rollouts.
• Proactively identify gaps, edge cases, and risks in client implementations and communicate them effectively to stakeholders.
• Act as a client-facing QA representative during solution validation, ensuring confidence in delivery and post-deployment success.

What We're Looking For

• 3–5 years of experience in Software QA (manual + automation), ideally with exposure to client-facing or Customer Success workflows.
• Strong understanding of core QA principles (priority vs. severity, regression vs. sanity, risk-based testing).
• Hands-on experience writing automation test scripts with Python (Selenium).
• Experience with modern automation frameworks (Playwright + TypeScript or equivalent) is a strong plus.
• Familiarity with SaaS workflows, integrations, or APIs (JSON, REST, etc.).
• Excellent communication skills — able to interface directly with clients, translate feedback into testable requirements, and clearly articulate risks/solutions.
• Proactive, curious, and comfortable navigating ambiguity when working on client-specific use cases.

Good to Have

• Previous experience in a Customer Success, Professional Services, or client-facing QA role.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, BDD/TDD frameworks, and test data management.
• Knowledge of security testing, performance testing, or accessibility testing.
• Familiarity with no-code platforms or workflow automation tools.

Perks

• Best-in-class compensation
• Fully remote work
• Flexible schedules
• Engineering-first, high-ownership culture
• Massive learning and growth opportunities
• Paid vacation, comprehensive health coverage, maternity leave
• Yearly offsite, quarterly hacker house
• Workstation setup allowance
• Latest tech tools and hardware
• A collaborative and high-trust team environment

Certa (getcerta.com) is a Silicon Valley-based tech product start-up that is automating the vendor, supplier, and other stakeholder onboarding processes (think background checks, agreements, and the works) for companies across industries and geographies. With multiple Fortune 500 and Fortune 1000 clients, at Certa's tech team, you will be working on stuff that is changing the way huge companies do business.

Must Haves:

• Experience developing enterprise-grade quality software.
• 3+ years of experience building large-scale front-end applications using React.
• 3+ years of experience using type-safe JavaScript-based languages, such as TypeScript.
• Understanding of modern frontend ecosystems, including Bundling(preferably using vite) Linting, Testing, Releasing.
• Success with mentoring mid-level & junior Engineers.
• Experience in Agile software development methodologies.
• Experience writing automated tests (e.g., Vitetest, Cypress, Jest, Testing Library).
• Experience in building, scaling & maintaining a design system from scratch.
• Experience in improving rendering as well as delivery performance for front-end applications.
• Experience in writing semantic HTML.
• Experience in building scalable, responsive, and cross-browser-compatible web applications.
• Experience in a peak-performance organization, preferably a tech startup.
• Experience working with a remote team.
• Data analysis experience, and understanding of how analytics can help with product decisions.

Bonus:

• Experience building integrations and data synchronizations with event pub/sub-models.
• Experience with WebGL
• Experience in building offline applications using Web Workers
• Open source contributions.
• Running his/her own blog.
• Experience with building 100% keyboard and screen reader-accessible applications.
• Experience setting up and customizing JavaScript tooling and building systems.