Senior Design Engineer - Top of Funnel

<p>In 1488, a thirteen-year-old named Michelangelo entered the Florence workshop of Domenico Ghirlandaio as an apprentice. Ghirlandaio was the most sought-after fresco painter in the city, not because he worked alone, but because he didn’t. His bottega was built around a precise division of attention: Ghirlandaio established the composition, the figures, the light. Trusted collaborators carried the work forward, applying the final glazes, rendering the faces, bringing the surface to life. The paintings you see today in Santa Maria Novella are the product of both. You can’t tell where one ends and the other begins. That was the point.</p> <p>The Top of Funnel team owns the introduction to a company that believes design is how you show people you take them seriously. We’re looking for a Senior Design Engineer who works the way Ghirlandaio’s bottega did: close enough to the creative process to carry it forward, and skilled enough to know the difference between almost right and actually right.</p> <p><strong>What you’ll do:</strong></p> <p>You’ll be joining a product-led growth team that works across the logged out <a href="http://mercury.com">Mercury.com</a> site, supporting stakeholders across the organization that want to share something with the world.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <ul> <li><strong>Bring design intent to life.</strong> Our brand designers work at high velocity, producing considered, high-fidelity layouts. Your job is to carry that work forward, with enough taste to honor the intention and enough craft to make it feel native to the web.</li> <li><strong>Bring the web platform to the table, not just the design spec.</strong> You’ll surface what’s newly possible in browsers, propose enhancements that design didn’t know to ask for, and advocate for approaches that make experiences feel alive rather than translated from a static file.</li> <li><strong>Implement animation and interaction that earns attention.</strong> Product launches, campaign pages, and editorial moments require more than accurate layouts. They require pacing, motion, and detail; you’ll own that layer.</li> <li><strong>Build and extend the design system.</strong> The web site’s design system is both the guardrail and the creative toolbox. You’ll identify when a component needs to stretch to cover a new use case, and build those extensions in a way that fits rather than fights the system.</li> <li><strong>Work directly with brand designers and marketing as a peer.</strong> This isn’t an execution role, it’s a creative partner role. You’ll be in the room during concepting, not just receiving tickets at the end.</li> <li><strong>Set the quality bar for Mercury’s front door.</strong> You’ll have a point of view about what exceptional looks like on the web