UI Engineer

📍 Location: Remote or Hybrid (SF or NYC)

We’re looking for a new engineer on our Design team at ReadMe! If you get excited by building prototypes, shipping features, and designing fun stuff—like dx.readme.com (it’s a work in progress!) or our Owlbot AI page—you’ll be a perfect fit.

We’re a small team of humans (and one owl) working together to do big things, and we’re growing fast! That’s where you come in. Since we’re a startup, you’ll make a big impact on ReadMe both in the daily responsibilities of your role and beyond.

🦉 What ReadMe Does

ReadMe helps more than 5,000 leading startups and tech companies build beautiful, personalized, and interactive developer hubs. If you’ve ever visited the developer docs for Webflow, Notion, or Nvidia, you’ve used ReadMe!

We love what we do because it’s so much more than just documentation. We’re providing tools for teams to build a better developer experience and make their products and APIs easier to use. We’ve got great support from our investors at Accel who led our Series A, and our interview process reflects the open, caring, and whimsical culture we want to maintain as we scale.

As a designer at ReadMe, you’ll be working closely with:

• Tony, our Head of Design - from San Francisco’s sunny Excelsior neighborhood as well as our Founder & CEO, Greg who works out of our new office in NYC on a variety of initiatives across marketing as well as new AI ideas we’re exploring.

• Our designers, Ryan & Jaclyn. Ryan is a designer who enjoys street photography & mountain biking. Currently between NY and SF. Outside of work, Jaclyn loves exploring nature and traveling.

✅ What You’ll Do at ReadMe

• Explore and build new ideas in the Gen AI space.

• Work with partners in our industry, such as GitHub Copilot, Kong, and AWS to design and build new features.

• Collaborate and build out interactive marketing pages.

• Add a bit of whimsy whenever possible. :)

💙 You’ll love this job if you are…

• Wanting to straddle the line between product, engineering, and marketing design.

• Curious about solving for developer pain points, and how to communicate with developers. You’ll speak to our customers in person, but also through your work. As a developer, you’ll have a good handle on the best way to define our brand for our users—including yourself!

• Interested in building prototypes and features for new ideas in the Gen AI world.

🌱 How you’ll grow in one month

• Become familiar with the product, APIs, and how we think about design.

• Merge your first PRs.

• Support and collaborate with your fellow designers and engineers.

• Learn that we really do have an owl drawing for everything.

🪴 Within three months, you’ll…

• Continue rebuilding our marketing pages! In the past, we’ve redesigned our customer pages, and released a podcast.

• Spend time with customers, hearing them out, and iterating based on their feedback.

• Build and ship features to customers.

🌳 Within six months, you’ll…

• Join us on an off-site!

• Lead large projects from concept through execution.

• Be an owner of ReadMe’s brand vision and a go-to person for new ideas we want to explore.

🛣️ What’s the hiring process like?

1. If we think we’re a good fit for you, we’ll set up a 30-minute phone call with Tony, Head of Design. He’s excited to hear your story and tell you more about the role and who we are!

2. Next will be a second 45-minute portfolio review where you can show off your work to a few ReadMe team members.

3. We’ve saved the best for last! We’ll invite you to an "onsite" interview conducted over Zoom. These usually take 3.5 to 5 hours including an hour break in between. We can be flexible with the schedule and split it up over two days if that works best for you! We start with a 15-minute get-to-know-ya and then have you talk with people one-on-one in the afternoon. This will include another portfolio review and/or a Work On Your Own Project interview.

4. We’ll let you know how things went within a week! If it still seems like a good fit all around, we’ll extend you an offer! If not, we will update you to let you know so you aren’t left hanging.

✨ Our benefits include…

• Unlimited PTO with a three-week minimum. 🏝

• Fully covered medical, dental, and vision insurance for you, and your dependents. 🩺

• A One Medical membership. 🧑‍⚕️

• A wellness stipend for therapy of up to $350 per month for up to 6 months. 😌

• A wellness stipend of up to $150 per month. 🏋️

• One-to-one donation matching of up to $1,000 per year. 💸

• Twelve weeks of paid parental leave after the birth or adoption of a child. 🐣

• Work from home office stipend of $500. 🖥️

• Three offsite retreats per year to get together with coworkers and plan for the quarter ahead. ✈️

• Take a look at our handbook for more information on our benefits! 📘

At ReadMe, we’re committed to cultivating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We welcome people of all backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. We are an equal opportunity employer and a pleasant and supportive place to work. We’d love to have you come join us here!