Design Engineer

We are hiring a Design Engineer to own our frontend and build it to an exceptional bar. Paires is an AI-first fundraising platform. We pair founders with the right investors from a large, engaged global investor network, then run the warm outreach that turns into meetings. It is a two-sided platform, live with paying clients, profitable and self-funded, built by a small, senior, flat team that ships fast. The role You own frontend development at Paires. Design matters a lot to us, and you will not carry it alone: we have an exceptional designer on the team, and you work closely with them while bringing your own taste to the table. The frontend itself has one owner - you. Not a group of engineers taking turns on it. You build the founder-facing product, the internal platform, and soon an investor-facing portal: data-dense screens founders trust with sensitive information. And when a feature needs more than frontend work to come to life, you have the full-stack range to take it all the way. You work inside a tightly knit senior team and report directly to the co-founders. What you will own Production UI in Next.js and React. The frontend is yours. The founder journey and the investor portal, with the polish that makes them feel premium. Full-stack work where a feature needs it, from backend to shipped screen. Design decisions made together with our designer, and the craft details most teams skip. You are a fit if you Ship production React and Next.js used by real users, and know Tailwind and Supabase on the front end. Build what you design without a handoff: real taste, strong opinions about craft, and the engineering to ship it yourself. Have a portfolio of live products, not just mockups. We build product UI: dashboards, data-dense workflows, AI-native surfaces. If your portfolio is mostly marketing sites and landing pages, this is not your seat. We open every link and judge the work before we read anything else. Make your first link the live product you are proudest of, not your portfolio homepage or LinkedIn. Can go beyond the frontend when needed: comfortable in the backend, able to ship a feature end to end. Have shipped production work for several years - this seat is not a first job. Move fast with AI tooling and review the output critically. Bonus: shadcn/ui, design systems, motion, data-heavy dashboards, AI-product UI like streaming interfaces and human-review surfaces. What we offer Fully remote and async. Your day overlaps with US Eastern time for a few hours - not full US hours. Meetings batch on Mondays and Thursdays, the rest is deep work. The best AI tooling, paid (Claude Code, Cursor, top models). How to apply: hit apply, which takes you to our short application form. We read every application.