Senior Design Engineer
We're seeking an exceptional design leader to manage and guide a team of talented multi-disciplinary designers.
Location
Bengaluru
Work Model
Hybrid
Experience
4+ years
About Delightree
At Delightree, we’re on a mission to help franchisors grow faster by making it easy and efficient for them to manage and operate all their locations. Our platform is used by some of the most loved brands to drive consistency, training, and operational excellence across hundreds of franchise units. Created to address real franchise pain points, Delightree helps businesses grow faster and operate more efficiently. By eliminating manual tasks and improving communication, our platform enables franchisees to focus on delivering great service and scaling with confidence.
Team Size
50+ (Overall) 2 (in Design Team)
Funding & Valuation
$25 Million raised ( Series C) $48. 6 Million (Total Funding)
Investors
Innovius Capital, Accel, Timber Grove Ventures, Emergent Ventures,Alchemist Accelerator and Axilor Ventures
Key Team Members
About the role
This role splits roughly in half.
The first half is designing for franchise operations - multi location brands, franchisee owners, and frontline staff each needing something different from the same product.
The second half is owning the layer between design and code. You'll own the design system - the components, patterns, and code. You'll write frontend code yourself, and you'll define how design work becomes a shipped interface for everyone else on the team.
That second half is why this role exists. Our approach to product development is shifting. Instead of traditional mockup handoffs, product managers and designers directly build working prototypes directly in code, using AI workflows alongside our component library. Engineering builds on those prototypes rather than starting over. You own this system and ensure it's up to scale and quality.
What you'll do
Design and build UI in the same motion - prototyping novel AI-native interactions directly in code rather than in Figma-then-handoff, especially where no pattern library exists yet.
Sit inside a pod (PM + eng lead + you) and take features from concept to shipped, rather than handing off a spec and waiting.
Own the interaction and motion details - loading/streaming states, transitions, micro-interactions - the polish that's nearly impossible to fully spec in a doc.
Build and maintain shared UI components so the rest of the org can move fast without reinventing patterns feature by feature.
Work directly in the production codebase.
What we're looking for
4+ years in product design, with depth in dense interfaces - tables, forms, permissions, multi role flows.
Real product/visual design judgment and the ability to ship real frontend code - not a designer who dabbles in code or an engineer who cares about UI, but someone for whom design and implementation are the same skill.
Hands-on frontend engineering. A portfolio + GitHub showing shipped, interactive, polished products - not just mockups or case studies.
Design systems built and maintained at scale, in code. You should be able to direct AI tools to build and maintain prototypes that adhere to accessibility, component system, and other guardrails.
Experience or strong interest in AI-native interfaces: streaming output, agentic/human-in-the-loop UX, confidence and uncertainty in UI.
Bonus: has worked somewhere small enough that design and engineering weren't separate functions. AI used structurally in how features got shipped, from ideation through implementation and review - not just for copy or asset generation.
Interview process
Our hiring process is designed to understand your product thinking, frontend engineering depth, design craft, and ability to work with AI-native design workflows. Here’s what you can expect:
1) Round 1 - Experience and Engineering Discussion
A 45-minute conversation with the Hiring Manager, Irfan Abbasi, to understand your background, product design experience, frontend engineering capabilities, portfolio, and how you use AI in your design and development processes.
2) Round 2 -Culture and Team Fit
A conversation with the Founder, Designer, and Product / Engineering stakeholders to understand how you collaborate, work with stakeholders, take ownership, and approach design in a fast-paced, early-stage environment.
3) Round 3 - Live Prototyping Round
A 1.5-hour hands-on prototyping exercise with the Hiring Manager. You’ll solve a design problem on the call using Claude Code or your preferred tool. This round will explore your product thinking, design approach, frontend engineering skills, and ability to turn ideas into working product experiences.