Front End Design Engineer

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 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 Required skills: 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 Experience with animation and motion (Framer Motion, GSAP, CSS transitions, or equivalent) 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 Bo