Founding Design Engineer: UI/Frontend for VR & Mobile

Gym Class VR; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health/Dental/Vision benefits

401k with matching

Job summary

Gym Class is seeking a Founding Design Engineer to own consumer UI across mobile and web in VR. You will ship production code from design ideas, establish design systems, and drive fast iterations that boost engagement, retention, and sharing. The role blends UX design with front-end engineering at a viral consumer startup.

You will work at the intersection of social, gaming, and AI, building scalable interfaces while maintaining high visual quality and performance across platforms.

Qualifications

• 3–6+ years building consumer web products, with a portfolio showing you owned both design + implementation.
• You’ve shipped mainstream UX and you intuit what makes products feel effortless, sticky, and shareable; built/optimized viral loops (invites/referrals, sharing, UGC, social graphs, discovery/feed surfaces).
• Strong front-end: React + TypeScript, modern HTML/CSS (responsive, animation, accessibility); you sweat the details: spacing, typography, motion, micro-interactions.
• Performance-minded: profiling, code-splitting, asset strategy, caching/CDN, keeping bundles lean.
• High-agency: you define the problem, propose the solution, and ship.
• Startup builder: thrive in ambiguity, move fast, raise the bar; ex-founders welcome.

Responsibilities

• Own 0→1 → production: sketch → Figma → production React.
• Build growth-critical surfaces: onboarding, profiles, discovery, social loops, chat, and UX for AI systems across mobile/web/VR.
• Drive the roadmap: identify leverage points, write plans, make calls, deliver with speed and quality.
• Create a system that ships: develop a real design system in Figma + code (components, tokens, patterns).
• Make it feel great: hit performance targets across mobile and VR constraints.
• Close the loop with data: instrument events, run lightweight tests, ship iterations weekly.

Skills

React

TypeScript

HTML/CSS

Design Systems

Performance Optimization

Startup Experience

Tools

Figma

Job description

Gym Class is seeking a Founding Design Engineer to own consumer UI across mobile and web in VR. You will ship production code from design ideas, establish design systems, and drive fast iterations that boost engagement, retention, and sharing. The role blends UX design with front-end engineering at a viral consumer startup.

You will work at the intersection of social, gaming, and AI, building scalable interfaces while maintaining high visual quality and performance across platforms.