Founding Design Engineer

Thomas Talent Network, LLC
San Francisco, United States of America
11 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior
Compensation
$ 250K

Job location

San Francisco, United States of America

Tech stack

Adobe InDesign
Artificial Intelligence
TypeScript
Large Language Models
Information Technology
Figma
Front End Software Development

Job description

As our Founding Design Engineer, you will:

  • Own product design and frontend development end-to-end, Role Overview: As a Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in TypeScript, you will play a pivotal role in designing and developing robust, scalable web applications. This positio…
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Requirements

Experience:

  • 2-6 years of relevant experience (no recent grads)

  • Designer who can code OR frontend engineer with strong design sense

  • Proven ability to ship production-level React + Figma work

  • Background in design school or computer science preferred

Mindset:

  • Product-minded and pragmatic

  • Strong bias to shipping over perfection

  • Experience building 0-to-1 products

  • Hands-on builder mentality

Ideal Background:

  • Former design or frontend leads at high-quality product or productivity startups

  • Bonus: Experience with AI/LLM products

NOT A FIT

  • Designers or engineers without production-level coding experience alongside design

  • Pure enterprise/B2B backgrounds (sales-led, non-product driven)

  • Senior leadership or IC roles without hands-on building

  • Recent graduates

  • Candidates without 0-to-1 product experience

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