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// POSTED: May 5, 2026

Design Engineer

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About PostHog

We equip every developer to build successful products.

We started with open-source product analytics, launched out of Y Combinator's W20 cohort.

We've since shipped more than a dozen products, including a built-in data warehouse, a customer data platform, and Max AI, an AI-powered analyst that answers product questions, helps users find useful session recordings, and writes custom SQL queries.

Next on the roadmap are messaging, customer analytics, ai task creation and coding based on customer data, logs and support analytics.

Our values are not a poster on the wall full of aspiration. They’ve come from how we really work, day in day out.

PostHog is open source product led, and a default alive company that is well funded.

Things we care about

Who we're looking for

The Platform UX team helps developers develop better products for developers by creating a UX that people won’t forget. We’re a small team where you get to work with our own self proclaimed beacon of user-focused-light, Adam Leith

We are looking for a rare breed: a builder who sits at the exact intersection of pixel-perfect design and high-velocity engineering. You aren't just a "coder". You are a product owner who uses the latest tools to ship ambitious features faster than most teams think possible.

You are someone who speaks ‘Designer intuition’, understands typography, whitespace, visual hierarchy, and color theory.
You look at a Figma file and see why a 4px shift in padding matters, and you speak Developer Logic: understanding the DOM, component lifecycles, and performance constraints.
You don't just build a button; you build a reusable, accessible, and performant button component.

We need someone with "keen eyes" who catches the small issues others miss and treats every interaction as an opportunity to delight a user.
We care about how people interact with our product, and as a result we have a high bar for quality and a low tolerance for friction. You don't wait for a 50-page spec; you grab a rough idea, design the solution, and ship the code.

The TL;DR: We’re looking for someone with elite frontend skills, a refined design eye, an obsession with speed, and you know how to leverage AI (Claude, Cursor, etc.) to punch way above your weight class.

What you'll be doing

Requirements

We are committed to ensuring a fair and accessible interview process. If you need any accommodations or adjustments, please let us know.

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