UX Engineer (Full-Time, Remote)

We’re seeking an experienced and dynamic UX Engineer to join our team.

Baymard Institute is a leading, independent web usability research institution that conducts large-scale UX research studies. We share our findings through a bespoke B2B SaaS platform that serves 17,500+ brands, agencies, researchers, and UX designers across 80+ countries—including 71% of Fortune 500 e-commerce companies.

Baymard’s product suite includes:

• A comprehensive Research Catalog featuring 700+ UX guidelines with 200,000+ design examples.
• Innovative AI-driven offerings, like the UX-Ray website scanner.
• A dedicated UX online learning platform.
• Standard platform features include account management.

Baymard is a small organization: we are ~60 people in total, with 12 members in the product team, who value thoroughness, a scrappy approach, and continuous iteration. The team is 100% remote and fully distributed across America and Europe.

About the Role

The UX Engineer at Baymard is a pivotal role, combining front-end engineering leadership with hands-on development. You will be a key player in a small, impactful team, contributing directly to products that inform and empower UX professionals worldwide. We value thoroughness, continuous improvement, and a collaborative spirit. If you’re passionate about front-end development in a fast-paced, iterative environment, we encourage you to apply!

In this key role, you will handle the front-end implementation of Baymard’s software products, working closely with our Engineering Lead (Brett Chalupa), design team, key stakeholders, and cross-functional teams like Research and Marketing. As UX Engineer, you will be responsible for shipping web applications, collaborating with back-end developers, and maintaining existing functionality.

This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of our product offerings. You are entering the organization at a critical time, when we are shifting from a digital content platform (past 5 years) to more of a SaaS tool (also a UX website scanner). You will be instrumental in a collaborative environment where we prioritize shipping quickly and iterating based on user needs.

Our tech stack consists of Next.js, TypeScript, Node.js, Tailwind, MySQL, and a legacy Ruby on Rails application.

What You’ll Do

• Front-End Web App Development: Implement user interfaces from design specifications, improve the user experience of our web applications, and contribute to back-end development as needed for your projects, and optimize existing features for performance. This includes working with the Engineering Lead on technical strategy and goals.
• Collaborate With Other Engineers: Work closely with the other engineers on defining and proliferating best practices and patterns. We’re in the process of consolidating our engineering efforts into a single monorepository, as well as training Ruby engineers in TypeScript, so your experience will be crucial in the success of this transition.

Who You Are

• Excellent Front-End Developer: Talented front-end engineer capable of building robust web applications with minimal design input, experienced with modern web technologies, including recent experience with deploying React, Next.js, and Tailwind applications.
• Eye for Design: Capable of making polished interfaces and improving on the UI and UX of projects without high fidelity designs
• Comfortable with the Back-End: Clear understanding of how data flows through a web application and capable of reading and writing data in a performant and secure manner. While not a full-stack role with expectations of architecting complex systems, being able to interact with data stores is a must.
• Resourceful & Adaptable: Experience working in small to medium-sized organizations that operate scrappily with limited resources.
• Organized & Detail-Oriented: Well-organized with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.

Nice-to-Haves

• Interest in and experience with implementing AI to improve processes.
• Experience building and maintaining an internal design system of components.
• Design experience, including proficiency in using design tools to communicate ideas.

Practical Details

• Location: 100% remote, full-time position, from Europe or the US. (Be mindful that the role requires daily overlap with team members in European and US time zones.)
• Salary: In accordance with qualifications.
• Start Date: Late 2025, but ideally as soon as possible.
• Language: Fully proficient in written and spoken English.
• Travel: Limited; expect only 1-3 weeks of travel each year (including the annual company retreat).
• Company: Learn more about Baymard’s work culture and values here, or by reading the “Key Work Values” section at the end of this page. Also, consider signing up for a free Baymard account to explore our product.

How To Apply

If you’re interested in this position, prepare the following:

1. A portfolio highlighting your best work (GitHub link if open source, a portfolio site, or a private link). (Required.)
2. A cover letter (1 page; PDF) describing how you fit the qualifications, your portfolio pieces, and why you are interested in the role. (Required.)
3. A resume (PDF) or a link to your LinkedIn profile. (Required.)

Send the above to uxengineer2025@baymard.com.
(All applications and materials are treated confidentially.)

Deadline is September 28, 2025 (end of day).
(Applications are processed as they are received.)

Sincerely,
Brett Chalupa, Engineering Lead at Baymard Institute

Referral Bonus: If this job isn’t for you, but you know someone who’ll be the perfect fit, please send them the link to this page. If we hire the person you referred, we’ll give you a 1-year access to a Baymard Core plan (normally $2,388/year).

This position is posted in accordance with Danish hiring legislation.

Key Work Values at Baymard

The following work values are central to us at Baymard and hopefully gives you an idea of our culture and what working at Baymard is like:

• Flat organization – Baymard is a small organization of just ~60 people. This means zero management layers between you and the final decision. You’ll have direct access to and impact on decision making.
• Lots of responsibility – From day 1 (OK, maybe day 2), you will be working on final products or services. We believe the best way to learn is to work on actual products and challenges, supplemented with rich early feedback.
• Long-term focus – Decisions are always based on their long term impact. We’re not interested in hunting after the next “quick win” — we want to make a lasting impact on the e-commerce industry and usually adopt a 5-year perspective in our decisions and projects.
• Remote from the ground up – 100% of the team works remotely. We’ve deliberately designed the organization around remote work. That said, we do bring the entire team together for a week once a year somewhere interesting in the world.
• Team of ‘subject matter’ nerds – Everyone geeks out a bit on their work interests. We love that, and once a week someone from the team gets the opportunity to do a 20-minute presentation on their latest obsession — whether it’s quasi-quantum-worlds, critical thinking, or the proper usage of hyphens, en dashes, and em dashes.
• Founders engaged in the product – We believe it is essential that those orchestrating the work of the organization are keenly in tune with all aspects of it. The two founders of Baymard have therefore performed every type of task in the organization themselves (from programming to UX testing), and continue to work directly on the product.
• Flexible hours – Beyond ensuring availability for meetings and a few hours of daily overlap with your colleagues, you are largely free to plan your own workweek. E.g., we have some that take a 2-hour break midday and then instead work in the evening, or only work half a Tuesday and then always work half a Saturday.
• Room for growth – We believe that everyone should be able to grow in their job — both as a professional and as a person. Therefore, each member of the team gets a clear, step-by-step overview of their progress, internal masterclasses, team summits, and more.