This role is a senior Design Engineer on Anthropic’s Brand Web team, responsible for owning significant surfaces of anthropic.com and claude.com, leading technical direction for web initiatives, shaping headless CMS architecture, building creative tooling, partnering with cross‑functional teams, and mentoring engineers.
Design Engineer, Web at Anthropic
Remote - Remote-Friendly (Travel-Required), San Francisco, CA, New York City, NY
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USD 305,000 - 385,000
Requirements
Skills
- Have deep experience building and shipping production web properties at scale, including ownership of architecture decisions and the consequences of them in production
- Are experts in modern frontend frameworks (Next.js / React) and have strong opinions about when to use them, when not to, and how to structure them for long-lived sites
- Have led work on headless CMS platforms, shaping the content model, publishing experience, and operational governance around them
- Have built internal tools and creative tooling that other team members rely on
- Operate as a peer to platform, security, and product engineering teams and partner across orgs on shared infrastructure
- Move fluidly between hands‑on building, technical direction‑setting, and explaining tradeoffs to non‑technical partners
- Care about design and craft, including refined typography, deliberate motion, and considered interaction
- Have shipped localized web properties at production scale with hands‑on experience in content modeling, tooling, and workflow decisions
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture and implementation of significant surfaces of claude.com and/or anthropic.com, including design system code, page templates, interactive experiences, and data visualization systems
- Lead the technical side of major web initiatives end‑to‑end, such as migrations, redesigns, and new product surfaces, including scoping, architecture decisions, partner coordination, and shipping
- Define and evolve our headless CMS architecture, including content modeling, structured data workflows, editorial governance in code, and the systems that make the CMS usable by non‑engineers across the company
- Build creative tooling and internal systems that change how the team works: Claude‑powered design system tools, page generators, content workflows, and MCP integrations
- Partner directly with Web Platforms, Security, and Growth Product Engineering on the surfaces that span teams: deployments, performance, technical SEO, experimentation infrastructure, and incident response
- Make and document architecture and technical standards decisions: framework choices, performance budgets, accessibility implementation, code quality, and frontend infrastructure
- Build and evolve the localization infrastructure that supports our growing international presence, including content modeling for translation workflows, integration with translation vendors, and patterns that make localized pages performant and maintainable across markets
- Mentor mid‑level engineers and contribute to hiring
Technologies
Next.jsReactHeadless CMSClaudeMCPWeb PlatformsSecurityGrowth Product EngineeringTechnical SEOPerformance OptimizationCore Web VitalsLocalizationContent Modeling
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