Senior Web Design Engineer

The Marketing team is poised for unprecedented growth and opportunity. Were in a very unique position where weve experienced tremendous success but are far from exhausting the whitespace around us. There is a unique opportunity to join a rising organization and make a significant and immediate impact. Mark Lynch - Senior Director Demand Generation

The Web Design Engineer leads the construction of our marketing website blending visual design and front-end engineering to create production-ready web experiences that are semantically correct accessible performant and visually refined. This role collaborates with designers content strategists demand generation and our developer to elevate everything we release on oversees implementation of components and pages in our Webflow-based stack and shapes the architecture and reusable patterns for the team.

Unlike traditional IDE-only front-end roles most production work is done in Webflows visual development environment requiring strong skills in HTML CSS DOM structure responsive design accessibility browser performance and client-side behavior. The ideal candidate is a browser-native web design engineer who cares about the quality of what ships.

What youll do:

• Implement marketing website components layouts and pages to a high standard of HTML semantics CSS quality accessibility performance and visual polish.

• Translate Figma designs into production web output partnering with designers to refine responsive behavior spacing type hierarchy motion and interaction details before and during implementation.

• Own the quality bar for production web output including reviewing work produced by other team members and helping establish standards patterns and reusable components.

• Build custom interactive components including Web Components and vanilla JavaScript modules where the intersection of design craft and engineering is required.

• Implement simple motion and animation as part of component and page work (e.g. CSS transitions menu fade-ins hover and focus states lightweight interactions).

• Contribute to our applications and shared component library (via Webflow DevLink) to keep design and behavior consistent across the marketing site and custom web apps.

• Diagnose and resolve front-end issues using browser DevTools including layout rendering performance accessibility and cross-browser problems.

• Optimize Core Web Vitals and page load performance including responsive image strategies resource hints render-blocking mitigation script loading and minimizing layout shift.

• Implement accessibility best practices including semantic HTML heading structure focus management keyboard interaction reduced-motion considerations and appropriate ARIA usage.

• Implement and QA A/B tests personalization experiences and conversion optimization experiments in partnership with marketing stakeholders.

• Help reduce fragile one-off implementations by creating durable reusable patterns and clear standards across components layouts and interactions.

• Partner with the Content and Demand Gen teams as a technical resource for advanced layout component and interaction questions.

• Contribute to the architecture and reusable patterns that underpin the marketing stack including component design CSS variable systems and interaction patterns.

• Make pragmatic trade-off decisions that balance design intent engineering quality timeline and business impact.

What youll bring:

• 8 years of professional experience building production web interfaces at the intersection of design and front-end engineering.

• Deep proficiency in semantic HTML and modern CSS including grid flexbox custom properties container queries logical properties and the full selector vocabulary.

• Strong visual eye with the ability to translate Figma designs faithfully and to identify and refine issues with spacing type hierarchy alignment imagery interaction states and responsive behavior.

• Working proficiency in JavaScript including the ability to author Web Components and small interactive modules without a framework.

• Practical understanding of web accessibility (WCAG) implemented as a matter of craft rather than checklist.

• Strong understanding of Core Web Vitals and front-end performance including image optimization resource prioritization layout stability and the critical rendering path.

• Comfort working in visual web authoring tools (e.g. Webflow) in addition to code editors with a pragmatic view of choosing the right tool for the job.

• Fluency in browser DevTools for layout performance accessibility and network debugging.

• Familiarity with Figma as a source of truth for design handoff.

• Strong understanding of SEO-relevant implementation considerations including semantic structure metadata heading hierarchy crawlable content and content visibility.

• Excellent attention to detail strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate across design engineering content and marketing functions.

• Ability to challenge implementation approaches constructively and explain technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders.

Are you ready to become an Absorber

What we offer:

• Fully remote-first work with flexible work arrangements

• Comprehensive Health and Wellness Benefits including retirement savings programs eligibility for two different bonus plans generous time off comprehensive medical and dental benefits based on your country of location

• New Hire Equipment Allowance and monthly Flex Allowance to support your success

• Endless opportunity for career growth and internal mobility

• Employee driven DE&I programs

Who are we

Absorb Software is the leading global AI-driven learning platform provider helping organizations unlock the full potential of their workforce. With its innovative Strategic Learning Systems (SLS) approach Absorb empowers businesses to align learning with strategic goals driving measurable impact and workforce agility. The Absorb LMS platform delivers personalized scalable and engaging learning experiences for employees customers and partners worldwide. Trusted by over 3300 organizations and 34 million users Absorb is redefining the future of workplace learning through cutting-edge AI seamless integrations and an unwavering commitment to innovation. We empower learners to enrich their lives workplaces and communities.

Our values are simple:

• We achieve exceptional results by genuinely caring about each other and the work we do

• Were united and we grow through our commitment to elevating continual learning!

AI @ Absorb

We believe in the power of AI and technology to make learning accessible to everyone. By exploring new tools and constantly experimenting were redefining whats possible. We take an AIfirst approach to unlock human potential drive impact and scale better outcomes. As the world evolves Absorb is committed to growing with you. Investing in your skills every step of the way.

We use AI tools to support our recruitment process such as organizing applications and highlighting potential matches based on role requirements. While these tools help streamline our review all screening and final hiring decisions are made by our recruitment team. We encourage candidates to apply authentically and not rely solely on AI-generated responses in their applications.

Absorb is proud to be an equal opportunity employer we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating a safe and inclusive environment for all our people. All employment decisions are based on business needs job requirements and individual qualifications. Should you require any accommodation during the recruitment process please indicate this on your application and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs. For any questions please contact us at

Successful candidates for this position will be subject to pre-employment background screening including a criminal record check and must be able to show proof of legal eligibility to work in the country they have applied to without sponsorship.

Required Experience:

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