Design Engineer

At Xata we’re on a mission to radically simplify the way developers work with data with our Postgres database platform.

We make managing database infrastructure easy giving developers all the functionality their application needs to evolve at scale.

Modern applications are complex. We are building a Postgres Database Platform that augments PostgreSQL with the functionality modern applications need at scale.

In every feature we build, we optimize for developer experience that will ultimately reduce our customers time to market or dramatically simplify hard architectural problems at scale. Our application is highly intuitive and is great for data collaboration with the entire team.

You will join our design team, responsible for our product UI, Marketing website, marketing assets, and our baby design system.

We work with:

• Next.js
• Figma
• Chakra UI
• Framer motion
• GitHub

• Be an active contributor to our website, core product, and our very early-stage design system. We normally contribute our designs with code. All our code is in a monorepo.
• Contribute to our growing set of open-source projects, like starters, make coding tutorials look good.
• Collaborate in multifunctional project teams (with frontend engineers, marketing, PM) to create new features or improve existing ones. Optionally lead such projects.
• Design in Figma
• Help the marketing team with design assets.

• You are a self-starter, that can take responsibility.
• You know how to code from motion design to great UI
• You have a spirit to work from a marketing website to product dashboards
• Good CSS level.
• Use of Design systems (Chakra UI, Tailwind)
• Comfortable working with Git and GitHub
• Significant experience with Figma
• A sharp eye for aesthetics.

• Engineering skills. Good coding expertise is a big plus, basic knowledge of APIs, HTML, CSS, JavaScript (React), A11y, would be a bonus. Most Xata employees, including founders, managers, and designers, can code.
• Basic data visualization skills (you know what is the right chart to show your data)
• Any experience in databases (MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB). Yep, you built something once with a database.
• Experience working on open-source projects
• Interest in the startup world, you’re a shipper!
• Experience launching your own products is a bonus. We’re always having ideas to ship open-source projects.
• Interest in design systems or system design thinking.
• Basic Illustration skills (we do everything in Figma no Illustrator and complex things).

• We’re stable. We raised $35M and have years of runway.
• We’re remote first and have more than 10 years of experience leading distributed teams at Elastic. Our team is distributed around the world, mainly in Europe and the east coast of the USA.
• Be part of a healthy culture, a culture that truly thrives innovation, a culture that empowers people and cares about the team members.
• We work asynchronously. We don’t do agile, the team meets weekly to check-in and then we use Github, Notion and Slack.
• You’ll have autonomy, lead features or projects, and bring ideas to the table.
• We are community-driven and deeply care about the success of our users and customers.
• Our team is diverse with over 40% women.
• Xata is female-founded and the first developer platform to have an all-female board of directors.
• We incentivize Conference meet-ups.

• Competitive salary and stock options.
• Friendly, diverse and inclusive work environment.
• 30 vacation days (not including local public holidays).
• 2 months full paid parental leave.
• Flexibility, autonomy and impact.
• Home office set-up budget + co-working space stipend.
• We support continuous learning with budgets for conferences, courses and books.
• Healthcare.
• 2 company offsites per year, with partners and kids welcome as well. So far we’ve been to Italy, Greece, Spain and Portugal. Join our next one in Iceland!
• Ample opportunity and support for career development and impact, there are no boundaries to your growth here at Xata.

Xata is well-financed by amazing investors, including Guillermo Rauch (founder of Vercel), Shay Banon (co-founder and CEO of Elastic), Neha Narkhede (founder of Confluent), Elad Gil, Christian Bach, and Mathias Biilmann (founders of Netlify), and many others.

We raised a $30 million Series A from top investors (Index Ventures and Redpoint), having the first ever 100% female board for such a technical company.

If you come from an underrepresented background in tech, we strongly encourage you to apply. We strongly believe that our success is driven by the talented and diverse team brought together from a variety of backgrounds, cultures and countries. We are always challenging ourselves to build an inclusive culture that allows us to build innovative and successful products.

Our founder, Monica Sarbu, has also founded a non-profit organisation called Tupu that helps tech companies support diversity in tech through mentorship.

We’re eager to hear from you and if you decide to apply, we’re rooting for you!