Design Engineer (opens in a new tab)

Wealthbox; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Comprehensive health plan coverage

401k plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Wealthbox is hiring a Design Engineer to bridge design and engineering for a modern AI-powered CRM UI. You’ll prototype interactions, shape our design system, and ship polished front-end features with AI agents and Claude Code.

Join a high-trust team that values ownership, thoughtful architecture, and shipping meaningful features to financial advisors. Remote, US-based, weekdays business hours.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional front-end or full-stack web development.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Design, or a related field is a plus.
• Deep experience with React and TypeScript.
• Experience building and maintaining design systems with component libraries such as shadcn/ui and Base UI and state management like Redux.
• Strong command of HTML, CSS, accessibility, and responsive design.
• Track record of maintaining production applications and writing clear, maintainable, tested code.
• Strong design and UX sense with shipped work showing craft and engineering depth.
• Comfort moving between Figma and code, and good judgment on when to use each.
• Experience shipping production work with AI coding tools and reviewing generated code.
• Excellent written communication and code review skills.
• Experience with Git, CI/CD, and regular deployments.
• Interest in the financial advisory space is a plus; Rails experience a plus.

Responsibilities

• Build customer-facing features in React and TypeScript from prototype to production.
• Own and evolve our design system and component library.
• Prototype new interaction patterns in code, including AI-native experiences like chat and agentic workflows.
• Work daily in Claude Code and ship features using LLMs and agentic workflows.
• Pay attention to front-end performance, accessibility, motion, and microcopy.
• Analyze user feedback to understand advisor needs and simplify relentlessly.
• Drive projects from concept to production with a clear approach and delivery.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on product decisions and UX.

Skills

Front-end development

React

TypeScript

Design systems

HTML/CSS

Accessibility

Git

Code review

AI coding tools

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Design, or related field

Tools

shadcn/ui

Base UI

Redux

Job description

About Wealthbox

We’re building an AI-powered CRM software platform for financial advisors. Thousands of advisory firms use Wealthbox every single day – not once a week, not occasionally – all day. It’s where they manage their clients, run their practices, and grow their businesses.

When we ship improvements, they actually matter. Our customers notice, they tell us, and they use what we build. That’s the kind of feedback loop that makes you build better software.

We’re a market leader, but we still operate like a nimble company. We’ve been doing this long enough to know what works, but we’re small enough that every decision you make matters.

How We Work

We work prompt-first. We use AI tools to prototype faster, generate tests, and increase velocity. But everything goes through human review—we don’t ship code we haven’t read and understood. You’ll learn how to use these tools effectively while building real features that customers use every day.

We’re a high-trust team of experienced engineers. You’ll own what you ship and how you ship it. If you identify a better approach, you have the authority to take it.

The constraint isn’t implementation speed anymore. It’s knowing what deserves to be built and executing at high quality. We expect engineers to think like product people. You’ll take on a project and drive it from inception through production: determine the right solution, build it well, and deploy it.

As a Design Engineer, you’ll work between design and engineering. AI is changing what a CRM interface should be, and much of it can’t be solved by copying patterns from other products. You’ll prototype new interactions in code, shape our design system, and ship polished front-end features, with the help of AI agents and without waiting on another team.

If you want to push the boundaries of how software gets built with AI, this is the place to do it.

What You’ll Do

• Build customer-facing features in React and TypeScript, from prototype to production

• Own and evolve our design system and component library

• Prototype new interaction patterns in code, including AI-native experiences like chat, inline assistance, and agentic workflows

• Work daily in Claude Code and ship features using LLMs and agentic workflows

• Sweat the details: front-end performance, accessibility, motion, and microcopy

• Dig into user feedback to understand what advisors need, then simplify relentlessly

• Drive projects from concept to production—identify the right approach, execute it, ship it

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on product decisions and user experience

What We’re Looking For

• 4+ years of professional front-end or full-stack web development

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Design, or a related field is a plus

• Deep experience with React and TypeScript

• Experience building and maintaining design systems, with component libraries such as shadcn/ui and Base UI and state management such as Redux

• Strong command of HTML, CSS, accessibility, and responsive design

• Track record of maintaining production applications and writing clear, maintainable, tested code

• Strong design and UX sense, backed by shipped work that shows both craft and engineering depth

• Comfort moving between Figma (or similar) and code, and good judgment about which to use when

• Experience shipping production work with AI coding tools, with the judgment to review and own everything they generate

• Excellent written communication and code review skills

• Experience with Git, CI/CD, and regular deployments

• Interest in the financial advisory space is a plus, but you don’t need to know it already

• Experience with Ruby on Rails or interfacing with Rails backends is a plus

Work Details

• Remote, no time zone requirements

• Weekdays, business hours

• No travel required

Benefits

• Competitive compensation

• Comprehensive health plan coverage

• 401k plan

• Paid time off