Founding Design Engineer

Readily; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career-defining experience

Weekly team activities

Opportunity to shape design culture

Job summary

A pioneering healthcare compliance company in San Francisco is seeking a Design Engineer to join its founding team. You will take ownership of the product design process, transforming complicated compliance workflows into seamless user experiences. The role demands strong skills in Figma, React, and TypeScript. This position offers a unique chance to impact healthcare’s compliance landscape and establish the design culture within a growing startup environment. Join us to help revolutionize healthcare with AI.

Qualifications

• Strong across design and frontend code, showing both design thinking and production.
• Comfortable with complexity in B2B workflows and multi-step processes.
• High agency, willingness to learn, and a drive to take ownership.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship product features from concept to production.
• Translate complex compliance workflows into user-friendly experiences.
• Build and maintain the design system for scalable components.

Skills

Figma

React

TypeScript

CSS/Tailwind

Job description

About Readily

30% of U.S. healthcare cost is administration. We’re fixing that.

Readily is building the compliance layer for the healthcare industry. Billion-dollar healthcare organizations turn to Readily to analyze regulations, conduct audits, and automate compliance readiness with AI.

We’re the fastest-growing company in this space - 10x revenue YoY. And we’re just getting started.

There’s an old Yorkshire saying: “Where there’s muck, there’s brass.” Healthcare compliance is messy. But in that mess lies an enormous opportunity. If you’re hungry to take ownership and build systems that matter, this is it.

About The Role

We’re hiring a Design Engineer to join our founding team in building the future of healthcare compliance AI. You’ll work directly with the founders, owning entire product surface our customers touch – from design concept to shipped code.

You’ll have founding-team-level ownership over design direction, the design system, and the frontend experience. Own the customer and the product – not just Figma mock-ups. 10× impact vs big tech.

What You’ll Do

• Design and ship product features end-to-end (Figma → React/TypeScript → production).
• Translate messy compliance workflows – audit prep, universe scrubbing, regulatory tracking – into elegant product experiences.
• Build and maintain the design system: components, patterns, interaction standards that scale.
• Partner directly with customers – sit in on calls, understand their pain, design from that understanding.
• Own brand and visual identity across product, marketing site, and customer-facing materials.
• Make smart tradeoffs between polish, speed, and shipping.

What We’re Looking For

• Strong across design + frontend code: Figma, React, TypeScript, CSS/Tailwind.
• Portfolio that shows both – design thinking and what actually shipped to production.
• Hunger: High agency, a willingness to learn, and a drive to do whatever it takes.
• Customer-obsessed: Confusing UX keeps you awake at night.
• Comfortable with complexity: You’ve designed for data-heavy B2B workflows, multi-step processes, or enterprise users – not just consumer apps.
• Intellectually humble: Low ego, high curiosity, collaborative.
• Biased toward action: You ship, you don’t wait for a spec.

Why Join Readily

• First design engineer hire. You define the design culture, system, and visual language.
• Career-defining experience: set the bar for an entire product category that hasn't been designed well. Ever.
• Hyper-growth environment (10× YoY – you’ll feel it).
• A real chance to fix healthcare’s most expensive problem with AI.
• Weekly pickleball 🏓 + a team that loves to win together.

📩 If you want true ownership and fix healthcare from its roots – we’d love to talk.