Staff Design Engineer

Aave Labs is a software technology company, renowned for building innovative web3 products based on blockchain technologies. Founded by Stani Kulechov, we’ve developed the battle tested Aave Protocol, the Aave-native stablecoin GHO, and Lens, a decentralized social networking protocol. With strategic acquisitions including the metaverse app, Sonar, and Family crypto wallet, Aave Labs is dedicated to realizing a people-powered internet that benefits everyone.

- Work autonomously across our web products, designing and building high-quality UI with a strong point of view on how it should feel and function - Own and evolve complex, reusable components within the Aave design system — setting the standard for quality and consistency - Bring product-level thinking to everything you work on — understanding user needs, business context, and technical constraints, whilst balancing them well - Collaborate with our talented designers, engineers, and product leads to bring clarity to ambiguous problems - Help raise the bar for the team through the quality of your work and the way you approach problems

- A true hybrid — equally at home in Figma and a TypeScript codebase, and who sees that as a single discipline, not two - Strong proficiency in React, TypeScript, CSS and system design and architecture. - Deep experience with component-driven design systems and building for consistency at scale - The product sense to work without a detailed brief — you can identify what needs to be solved, not just how to solve it - A demonstrated ability to take complex UX problems — information-dense interfaces, multi-step flows, edge cases — and make them feel resolved and clear

Aave Labs is the original author and key contributor of the Aave Protocol, a leading decentralized finance (DeFi) lending platform. The company builds blockchain-based products that enable users to earn, borrow, save, and swap digital assets in a non-custodial, permissionless environment.