Founding Design Engineer

Garage; New York (NY); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and stock options

Health, dental and vision insurance (100% covered)

Unlimited paid time off every year

Daily lunch and dinner

$100 monthly wellness stipend

401(k) with employer match

Pre-tax commuter benefits

Bi-annual team offsite

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Garage is seeking a Frontend Engineer in New York to build and ship production-quality UI across our core products. You will have the opportunity to craft UI details and work directly with the Co-founder and CTO in a high-performance startup environment.

We are looking for someone with strong experience in React, Next.js, and Tailwind, as well as a strong eye for design. Benefits include competitive salary, health insurance, and unlimited paid time off.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with React, Next.js, Tailwind, and TypeScript in production environments.
• Exceptional CSS skills with a proven ability to build pixel-perfect, resilient user interfaces.
• Portfolio that demonstrates high-craft frontend or design engineering work.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship polished, production-quality UI across core products.
• Craft UI details including layouts, typography, responsiveness, motion, and micro-interactions.
• Contribute to shared UI foundations including components, patterns, and design tokens.
• Work across the stack using React, Next.js, and TypeScript.
• Optimize for performance, accessibility, and maintainability without compromising on design.
• Raise the bar for frontend craft through code reviews and critiques.

Skills

React

Next.js

Tailwind CSS

TypeScript

CSS

UI Design

Job description

About the role

Good design is a core feature of our platform. When people are looking to buy and sell assets that are valued as much as an actual house, it’s important the product experience is clean, smooth, and intuitive. Since the beginning, we’ve been very intentional about maintaining a high bar for product design. We love going into the details, talking to our customers, and building the pixels nobody asked for but always wanted. You’ll join a small team working directly with the Co-founder and CTO.

• Build and ship polished, production-quality UI across our core products (including a mobile app).
• Craft UI details including layouts, typography, responsiveness, motion, and micro-interactions using Tailwind CSS.
• Contribute to shared UI foundations including components, patterns, and design tokens.
• Work across the stack using React, Next.js, and TypeScript to deliver fast, reliable interfaces.
• Optimize for performance, accessibility, and maintainability without compromising on design.
• Raise the bar for frontend craft through code reviews, critiques, and shared standards.

What we’re looking for

• Strong eye for design and interaction with taste you can both defend and implement.
• Comfort working across design, product, and engineering to ship work.
• You think in systems, not tickets.
• You get excited by operating in a high-performance startup environment.
• You would love to be customer-facing.
• You play for the front of the jersey, having strong opinions, a willingness to question the status quo, and a drive to become a real expert in whatever space you work in. All while being a great team communicator.

Required

• Strong experience with React, Next.js, Tailwind, and TypeScript in production environments.
• Exceptional CSS skills with a proven ability to build pixel-perfect, resilient user interfaces.
• Portfolio that demonstrates high-craft frontend or design engineering work.

Nice to have

• Startup experience as a technical co‑founder or early engineer at a Series A/B/C startup.
• 4+ years of experience.

What we offer

• Competitive salary and stock options
• Health, dental and vision insurance (100% covered)
• Unlimited paid time off every year (in addition to company observed holidays)
• Daily lunch and dinner
• $100 monthly wellness stipend
• 401(k) with employer match
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• Bi-annual team offsite
• Relocation assistance