Design Engineer

Company: Paires

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).
Compensation: USD 50,000 to 100,000 per year.
How to apply: hit apply, which takes you to our short application form. We read every application.

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