Front End Design Engineer

Overview

TasteMakers is a curated network of designers, creative technologists, and AI-native makers working on projects with leading AI labs, tech companies, and brands. We're on a mission to end AI slop. We're looking for frontend engineers, design engineers, and interactive developers who care about the details most engineers skip: spacing rhythm, typography, animation easing, hover states, accessibility, and overall visual polish. You might build production-quality product interfaces, or immersive, motion-rich campaign experiences with WebGL and Three.js. Either way, you're as comfortable reading a Figma spec as you are debugging a layout in the browser, and you ship finished work, not prototypes. This is a general pool for frontend, design engineering, and interactive development experts. Qualified engineers are matched to active, paid projects as they open. Remote and async, as an independent contractor. Commitment: 15-40 hours per week.

What you'll do

• Build polished, high-fidelity interfaces from design specs, prompts, or reference sites, with strong attention to responsiveness, accessibility, and motion
• Build interactive websites, campaign microsites, and experimental experiences from creative concepts, including WebGL/Three.js scenes, canvas graphics, and scroll-driven motion
• Create interactive components and micro-interactions: hover effects, transitions, scroll behaviors, loading states, and animation systems
• Partner with art directors and designers to work out how to technically execute ambitious ideas, and optimize for smooth frame rates and fast load times
• Use AI coding tools to generate and modify code, then evaluate where the output falls short visually, structurally, or systemically
• Review and refactor AI-generated frontend code toward production standards, and document failure modes clearly
• Build example implementations that help AI systems learn what high-quality frontend and interactive execution looks like

Required skills

• 3+ years of professional frontend or interactive development experience shipping real interfaces or experiences
• Strong proficiency in at least one modern framework or platform: React (Next.js, Vite), Vue, Svelte, Angular, SwiftUI, Jetpack Compose, or HTML/CSS/vanilla JS
• Deep comfort with CSS and/or Tailwind for complex, responsive layouts
• A strong eye for design and implementation fidelity: typography, grid, timing, and motion that match a high creative bar
• Figma fluency and an understanding of design systems
• Comfortable with AI-native workflows (Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot, v0, or similar) and able to tell when they get things wrong
• Strong written English for code review, documentation, and structured critique
• Bonus: Three.js/WebGL, shaders, or creative coding; agency experience partnering directly with art or creative directors; accessibility expertise (WCAG); or cross-platform (web + native) experience