UI/UX Engineer (Customer-Focused Frontend)

About the Role

At Cytely, we’re building a world where science accelerates itself.

As our UI/UX Engineer, you are the crucial bridge between our users' complex needs and our powerful platform. You are a frontend engineer who thinks like a designer. Your mission is to build an experience so intuitive and elegant that it feels like a natural extension of a scientist's mind. You will own the front of the frontend, transforming user insights and design concepts into beautiful, functional, and delightful code.

Key Responsibilities

• Build, prototype, and ship world-class UIs that bring ‘one-click assays’ and a ‘visual pipeline builder’ to life within Phoenix LiveView.
• Translate user needs into reality by collaborating directly with biologists and researchers and turning pain points into shipped features.
• Implement and maintain a world-class component library/design system in code to ensure cohesion, reusability, performance, and accessibility.
• Bring data to life with interactive, publication-ready graphs and shareable datasets that compress time from experiment to insight.
• Champion the user experience in technical discussions so features are powerful, intuitive, and easy to use.
• Example projects: lead frontend for a researcher’s co‑pilot; implement drag‑and‑drop visual pipeline builder; establish Cytely’s component library; build interactive sharing for re‑analyzable datasets.

Qualifications

• Deep user empathy and UX craft: research-informed product thinking and obsession with the ‘why’.
• Exceptional UI implementation: translate complex designs (e.g., Figma) into pixel‑perfect, performant interfaces with thoughtful micro‑interactions.
• End‑to‑end customer focus: lead interviews, convert insights into prototypes, and test to iterate quickly.
• Component‑driven development: experience building or contributing to reusable design systems in code.
• Expertise in frontend engineering: strong modern JavaScript; responsive, accessible, maintainable web apps; experience with or desire to master Phoenix LiveView.
• Collaborative spirit: work seamlessly with backend engineers and scientists to translate complex requirements into elegant frontend solutions.
• A passion for the mission: accelerate discovery, unlock human biology, and help cure preventable disease.