Why should you be interested?

A new Design Engineer role has opened due to continued growth with an AI-powered back-office platform serving fast-scaling startups. We’re looking for a design-minded engineer to shape and build intuitive, production-ready user experiences that simplify complex financial and operational workflows. In this role, you’ll partner closely with product leaders, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders to bring thoughtful, intelligent interfaces to life—helping users navigate high-stakes operational decisions with clarity and confidence. With a recent ~$18M Series A and plans to double headcount, this is a high-impact opportunity to join as the first person in this function and help define the visual and experiential direction of the product. Passive candidates who are employed and just curious to explore the potential fit are welcome to have a no-commitment conversation with our recruiting team.

Compensation: $140,000 – $230,000 base salary + 0.15%–0.25% equity

Location: Preferred on-site in NYC (Flatiron). Remote considered for exceptional candidates.

Work Authorization: Visa sponsorship not available.

About the Company

A fast-growing AI-powered back-office platform serving early-stage and scaling startups. The product streamlines and automates complex financial workflows, helping founders and finance teams operate more efficiently and with greater visibility. The organization values high ownership, rapid iteration, and design-driven product execution.

Role Overview

The Design Engineer will own critical user-facing experiences across the platform, transforming complex financial operations into intuitive, polished workflows. This is a hybrid role blending UX, UI, prototyping, and front-end implementation.

Responsibilities

• Product Experience Design
• Develop user flows, interface patterns, and end-to-end experiences across web and mobile applications.
• Own and evolve the product’s design system to support scale and design consistency.
• Visual & Marketing Design
• Design landing pages, digital ads, presentation assets, and promotional materials that support conversion and growth initiatives.
• Maintain consistent visual identity across marketing and product touchpoints.
• Design System Ownership
• Build and maintain component libraries, design tokens, visual standards, and documentation.
• Create processes that streamline collaboration between design, engineering, and product.
• Rapid Prototyping
• Use design tools and AI-assisted workflows to create prototypes for user testing and internal validation.
• Test layout concepts, interaction models, and new features before committing to engineering implementation.
• Process & Tooling Optimization
• Improve internal design–engineering handoff methods.
• Implement automated visual QA workflows and cross-team alignment tools.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Work with product, engineering, and go-to-market teams to align business goals with polished user experiences.
• Translate technical constraints into elegant design solutions.
• Strategic Product Input
• Identify opportunities to simplify complex financial workflows and streamline back-office operations for users.
• Contribute to long-term product direction and roadmap decisions.

What You Bring

• 1-6 years of experience as an engineer with a knack for design thinking and strong visuals
• Prior engineering experience ideally at a start-up or digital agency
• Design experience/portfolio including fintech and payments software companies, highly data-intensive products (telemetry data for IoT, Whoop, etc) or marketplaces
• Figma and other product design experience
• Former founder experience preferred, even if it failed
• A strong career path in engineering, or university degree
• TypeScript, React, Nextjs, Tailwind, CSS, Figma experience



Who is Rainier Recruiting?

Rainier Recruiting is a boutique, award winning national staffing agency and executive search firm. Using an approach that “treats every candidate like an executive search”, we offer positions in contract-to-hire, Full-Time, and executive search.

Named the #1 Best Workplace in Washington State in 2022, recognized as a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing firm, and identified as a top recruitment firm by multiple business journals, Rainier Recruiting is fast becoming a respected company. We are no longer the “best recruiters you have never heard of”. Rainier Recruiting is also proud to share our clients have a 93% repeat business rate.

Rainier Recruiting is an equal opportunity employer and service provider and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, sexual orientation, disability, political affiliation or belief, or any other protected class. We are committed to the principles of Equal Opportunity Employment and are dedicated to making employment decisions based on merit and value, for ourselves, our client companies, and for the candidates we represent. We engage in socially conscious business practices and believe that diverse, equitable, inclusive, and non-biased talent and recruitment processes are foundational to the success of every organization that we partner with.