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Web Development Lead

Role overview

Qualifications

  • 5-odd years building for the web, across platforms and frameworks
  • Ability to pick the right stack for the job and learn new ones fast
  • Strong design sensibility including spacing, typography, and motion
  • Experience in working with AI-native technologies

Responsibilities

  • Lead small to medium web projects independently, scoping to launch
  • Build on Webflow, WordPress, Strapi, or other necessary technologies
  • Partner with designers and push the work beyond execution
  • Communicate directly with clients about estimates, timelines, and tradeoffs

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Team Leadership
  • Problem Solving
  • Collaboration

About the company

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Parallel Design Studio

Design Services

Since 2014, Parallel has shaped AI products and digital experiences for teams that need senior judgment at startup velocity, from first idea to scale. We are the design partner for funded startups and enterprises building what comes next, designing digital products that move beyond the demo into real, lasting adoption. Our work spans AI product design, SaaS UX, brand and web design, and product strategy across fintech, healthtech, govtech, and emerging AI sectors. Recent partners include Meta, Sarvam AI, HealthifyMe, Lume Health, Pixxel, Gullak, UrbanPiper, and Payoneer. We work in three ways: - a fractional design partner that operates as your embedded senior team, - brand and web design for launches and rebrands, and - focused engagements like AI vision sprints and visual language systems. Engagements run 6 to 16 weeks, with most teams continuing past that. Based in Austin and Bangalore, with full Pacific and Eastern overlap. Parallel works inside your Slack and your sprint cadence, just like in-house designers, with the velocity and senior judgment of a studio that has shaped 100+ products across categories.

Company details

IndustryDesign Services
Company size11 - 50

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Job description

Lead, Web Development 

Parallel · Remote

We’re hiring a developer who thinks like a designer.

Parallel is a design studio. Since 2013, we’ve built products and web experiences for ambitious startups, mostly in AI and B2B SaaS. Around 40 of us. All obsessed with craft.

The role

Most developers look at an ambitious design and start listing what won’t work. We want the one who starts figuring out how it will.

You’ll lead our web builds end to end: marketing sites, product experiences, work that’s visually complex and technically clean. You’ll partner with designers, own client conversations, and build a small dev team around you as we grow.

What you’ll do

  • Lead small to medium web projects independently, scoping to launch

  • Build on Webflow, WordPress, Strapi, or whatever the project actually needs

  • Partner with designers. Push the work, don’t just execute it

  • Talk to clients directly: estimates, timelines, tradeoffs

  • Hire and grow a small dev team as we scale

  • Set the quality bar. Pixel-perfect is the baseline, not the ceiling

Who you are

  • 5-odd years building for the web, across platforms and frameworks

  • You pick the right stack for the job and learn new ones fast

  • A designer at heart. Spacing, type, motion. Sloppy details bother you

  • The weird, visually ambitious brief excites you

  • AI-native. The old constraints have shrunk, and you use that to say yes more often

  • Easy to work with. Clients trust you, designers want you in the room

Not for you if

  • Your first instinct is “that’s not possible”

  • You think design is someone else’s job

  • You’d rather only write code. This role talks to humans too

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