Escape
Technology
DesignEngineer(Front-end)
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“Design Engineer (Front-end) at Escape. Skills: Frontend engineering, Product experience, Design systems. Build and iterate SaaS app. Design UIs for asset inventory”
What You'll Achieve.
Shipped impactful product improvements; Migrated SaaS app toward design system; Met key customers; Built workflow intuition; Improved component quality; Improved UI consistency; Taken ownership of major product surfaces; Enhanced design system; Enhanced reusable components; Accelerated team velocity; Ensured production quality; Elevated SaaS product polish; Elevated SaaS product consistency; Elevated SaaS product scalability; Set frontend engineering quality standard; Built product experiences supporting enterprise scale
Industry & Context.
Root cause analysis
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years experience shipping web applications, TypeScript and frontend architecture skills, Experience building and maintaining design systems, Comfort with GraphQL or similar API layers, Autonomy in integrating with backends, Customer-first and product-quality mindset
Nice to Have
Svelte experience, Cybersecurity/DevSecOps exposure, Building data-heavy B2B SaaS products, Building design systems, Familiarity with AI-assisted design tools, Fast-growth startup experience, Light backend contributions
What You'll Do.
Build and iterate SaaS app
Design UIs for asset inventory
Design UIs for attack surface exploration
Design UIs for scan configuration
Design UIs for AI pentesting
Design UIs for dashboards
Design UIs for reporting
Develop reusable UI components
Improve frontend architecture
Integrate with GraphQL APIs
Manage TypeScript types
Drive schema discussions
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
SaaS/Web Development Team; Backend engineers; Product
Full Job Description
ABOUT ESCAPE Escape is transforming offensive security for resource-constrained teams. We build AI agents that identify and exploit vulnerabilities in modern applications, APIs, and microservices—mimicking real attackers, but operating at CI pipeline speed. A Y Combinator W23 company, we recently closed an $18M Series A (March 2026) led by Balderton Capital, with Uncorrelated Ventures, IRIS, and YC participating. Trusted by leaders like Zoom, Schibsted, Wiz, and Pandadoc, Escape is helping teams move beyond traditional annual penetration testing. Now 40 people between Paris and NYC, we’re scaling to 80 in the next year. Our product surface spans ASM, business-logic-aware DAST, and AI Pentesting, all going GA this year. Our competitive thesis: LLMs have reduced the cost of offensive engineering by 1000x—and those who deliver it to production first will shape the decade ahead. We’re committed to leading that charge. THE ROLE: DESIGN ENGINEER, FRONTEND-END (PRODUCT ORIENTED) We are seeking a Design Engineer to steward the frontend craft of Escape’s SaaS product. This is neither a simple implementation nor a passive pixel-pushing role. You will join the SaaS/Web Development Team, acting as a key bridge with Product. Your focus: transform complex cybersecurity workflows into fast, elegant, and intuitive product experiences. You’ll deeply understand customer problems and design, build, and ship interfaces that make sophisticated processes feel simple. WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR - Strong product judgment and taste - Advanced frontend engineering skills - Ability to design and build reusable component systems - Solid backend understanding for independent API integration - A keen eye for visual and interaction details ("le compas dans l’œil") WHAT YOU’LL OWN Product Experience - Build and iterate on Escape’s core SaaS app for vulnerability discovery, testing, triage, and remediation - Design UIs for asset inventory, attack surface exploration, scan configuration, AI
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