TableCheck, Japan's leading restaurant reservation management platform, is seeking a Design Engineer to join our team. This hybrid role combines the craft of interface design with the rigor of fullstack engineering. As a Design Engineer at TableCheck, you’ll help shape and build cohesive, user-centered experiences by translating design intent into high-quality, production-ready code.

You’ll contribute across the entire product lifecycle — from early exploration and prototyping, to building UI components and workflows, and building, shipping and maintaining features for our customers.

We operate in an English-first, remote-first environment where clear communication and thoughtful documentation are essential. Japanese fluency is not required, but familiarity with hospitality workflows or restaurant systems is a big plus. You'll thrive here if you care about user experience, software engineering and the intersection of design systems, engineering and solving customer problems.

Responsibilities

• Shape the end-to-end customer experience across TableCheck products—from early concepts through launch and beyond

• Create intuitive, beautiful interfaces that help restaurants run smoothly and delight their guests

• Drive design decisions through research, user feedback, and deep understanding of the hospitality industry

• Run design critiques and help build a culture where honest feedback makes everyone better

• Master tools like Figma, Miro, Adobe Suite (and whatever's next) to bring ideas to life quickly

• Build interactive prototypes and AI-powered application demos to test ideas before committing to full development

• Jump into code when it makes sense—whether that's refining a frontend component, tweaking an API, or shipping a small feature yourself

• Work alongside engineers using React, Node.js, TypeScript, and Ruby on Rails (you don't need to be an expert in all of these, but comfort with code helps you move fast)

• Partner with product managers, engineers, operations, and sales to translate business needs into experiences that actually work

Must Have

• 3+ years designing and/or building software products

• Proven track record working as a UI and UX designer

• A portfolio showing real work that shipped to real users

• Strong visual design sense—you know what looks good and why

• The rare ability to think like both a designer and an engineer (understanding constraints makes you better at both)

• Enthusiasm for using AI tools to accelerate design work, prototype faster, and explore new possibilities

• Clear communication style and comfort giving/receiving feedback

• Experience maintaining products in production, not just launching them

Nice to Have

• Startup experience (you're comfortable with ambiguity and wearing multiple hats)

• Knowledge of the restaurant or hospitality industry

• Familiarity with Japanese culture and business practices

• B2B and B2C product experience