16h ago
Founding Design Engineer
San Francisco
$100k-$250k / year
full-timesoftware
🛠 Tech Stack
💼 About This Role
You'll own the full visual and interactive experience of Jinba's platform, building a design system and motion that makes complex workflows intuitive. Your core impact is shaping how enterprise users interact with AI-native software as the first dedicated design hire. You'll ship production code alongside the engineering team.
🎯 What You'll Do
- Design and build Jinba's design system: components, tokens, patterns, and documentation
- Own UI/UX for core product surfaces, from concept through implementation
- Create motion design that guides users through workflow creation and execution
- Write clean, maintainable frontend code using shadcn/ui and modern React patterns
📋 Requirements
- Strong product design sense with portfolio showing end-to-end ownership
- Proficient in React/TypeScript; you ship your own designs
- Experience building or significantly contributing to a design system
- Motion design ability: understand timing, easing, and how animation communicates state
✨ Nice to Have
- Experience with developer tools, no-code platforms, or workflow/automation products
- Background combining design and engineering
- Experience at companies like Figma, Linear, Notion, Retool, Vercel
🎁 Benefits & Perks
- 💰 Equity
- 🏢 Onsite in San Francisco
- 🌱 Early-stage startup growth
- 🤝 International team across SF and Tokyo
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