Founding Design Engineer: Remote, Equity, End-to-End UI

Helmsted; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity: Early-team grant

Paid sick leave

Health insurance under discussion

AI tools: All covered

Job summary

Helmsted is seeking a frontend product designer/developer to sit with engineers and own the advisor-facing UI. You will design and ship UI end-to-end in our React and TypeScript codebase, turning ideas into production features for wealth advisers.

You will build and own our design system, improve data visualization for dense financial data, and ensure accessibility, polish, and speed. This is a remote-first role across the United States with potential relocation as the team centralizes.

Qualifications

• Portfolio of products you designed and built yourself.
• Strong product design fundamentals: layout, typography, hierarchy, interaction.
• Production front-end skills: React, TypeScript, modern CSS.
• Comfort reading and editing a shared codebase.
• Experience with AI tools to aid design.
• Design for dense, data-heavy professional tools.
• Mobile and responsive design for professionals.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship UI end-to-end in React/TypeScript.
• Collaborate with pilots and advisors to validate product ideas.
• Build and maintain a design system and component library.
• Make dense financial data clear and usable on desktop and mobile.
• Prototype in code to test ideas with pilot firms.
• Ensure polish, accessibility, performance.
• Work directly with founders and pilot firms.

Skills

Portfolio of products

UI/UX design

Product design fundamentals

AI integration

Data visualization

Mobile design

Strong agency

Tools

React

TypeScript

CSS

Design systems

Git

Job description

Helmsted is seeking a frontend product designer/developer to sit with engineers and own the advisor-facing UI. You will design and ship UI end-to-end in our React and TypeScript codebase, turning ideas into production features for wealth advisers.

You will build and own our design system, improve data visualization for dense financial data, and ensure accessibility, polish, and speed. This is a remote-first role across the United States with potential relocation as the team centralizes.