Frontend Design Engineer
- Tokyo
- Remote OK - Anywhere in Japan
- Full-time
- March 4, 2026
What you'll do
- Own the end-to-end quality of user-facing UI, from interaction design to production code
- Translate designs into polished, high-fidelity experiences with strong attention to motion, spacing, and feel
- Build and maintain a component system that scales without losing craft
- Collaborate with product and design to raise the bar on what shipped work looks like
- Occasionally run experiments and iterate on flows based on user behavior and data
Requirements
- 4+ years building production frontend with a strong eye for visual and interaction quality
- Obsessive about the gap between "it works" and "it feels right"
- Proficient in React, with experience owning a design system or component library
-
Comfortable working from Figma files or from your own design instincts when needed
-
Enough data literacy to sanity-check whether a change actually moved the needle
Experience
- Shipped user-facing products where UI/UX quality was a first-class concern
Education
- Bachelor's degree or above.
Nice to have
- Experience with A/B testing or product experimentation
- Interest in anime, otaku culture, creator communities, or AI generation
Note: If you've read this, tell us your top 5 favorite niche anime.
About Metanomaly
Metanomaly builds an AI-native image generation and sharing platform.
They are one of the largest AI image generation platforms by traffic and offer proprietary models that enable users to unleash their artistic potential and imagination when creating virtual characters.
Get Job Alerts
Sign up for our newsletter to get hand-picked tech jobs in Japan – straight to your inbox.








