Front-End Design Engineer

EliseAI; New York (NY); On-site; USD 170,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity in the company

Medical, Dental and Vision premiums covered at 100%

Fully paid parental leave

Commuter benefits

401k benefits

Fitness & home services stipend

Unlimited vacation and paid holidays

Relocation packages

Job summary

A fast-growing technology startup is seeking a Frontend / Design Engineer to lead the user experience across core products. This role involves creating and maintaining a cohesive design system, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring high-quality user interactions. The ideal candidate has at least 2 years of experience with Javascript, Typescript, and React, and a startup mindset. The position offers a salary of $170,000 - $200,000, equity options, and comprehensive benefits including medical coverage and unlimited vacation.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in Javascript, Typescript, and React.
• Strong understanding of interaction patterns and visual design best practices.
• Willingness to work in person at our office 4-5 days a week.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and evolve our design system.
• Collaborate with teams to align on requirements and shape features.
• Translate Figma designs into pixel-perfect, accessible interfaces.
• Design and implement UI interactions that enhance usability.

Skills

Javascript

Typescript

React

Figma

Responsive layout systems

Accessibility principles

Usability principles

Tools

Cursor

Vercel

Job description

About EliseAI

At EliseAI, we're improving the industries that matter most: housing and healthcare. Everyone needs a place to live and access to quality healthcare, yet both are often harder to secure than they should be. By integrating AI agents deeply into existing workflows, we make them more efficient, reduce costs, and improve the experience for everyone.

• Housing: We simplify how renters tour apartments, sign leases, submit maintenance requests, and stay connected with their property team—bringing everything they need for their home into one place.

• Healthcare: We make it easy to schedule appointments, complete intake forms, and we help patients communicate with providers, so everyone can focus on health instead of paperwork.

With EliseAI, organizations reduce manual work, improve accessibility, and deliver a seamless experience across essential services. We recently raised a $250 million Series E round led by Andreessen Horowitz to accelerate this mission.

About The Role

We're hiring our first dedicated Frontend / Design Engineer to own the end-to-end user experience across our core products and marketing site. In this role, you'll operate at the intersection of design and engineering, establishing and implementing the design system, shaping the visual language of the platform, and rebuilding key interfaces to drive greater consistency, clarity, and usability.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner closely with design, product, and engineering to develop, maintain, and evolve our design system, ensuring aesthetic cohesion and a scalable front-end architecture

• Collaborate with PMs and engineers to align on requirements, feasibility, and sequencing, helping shape how features are built from concept through launch

• Document patterns, promote consistency, and drive adoption of shared systems across teams

• Own and define our process and approach to frontend development as the first design engineer, acting as a bridge between design intent and production code

• Translate Figma designs into pixel-perfect, accessible, and performant interfaces with a focus on visual consistency and high-quality user experience

• Design and implement thoughtful UI interactions and micro-interactions that enhance clarity, feedback, and usability across the product

• Bring high-quality interaction patterns to life, including transitions, states, and responsive behaviors that make the interface feel polished and intuitive

• Work closely with engineering to ensure components ship with the intended fidelity, reducing visual regressions and post-launch polish work

• Refactor existing surfaces to implement the design system, improve usability, and unify the visual language across the product and marketing site

• Attract top-tier talent to join our driven team

Move at rocket speed, build something massive.

We're scaling fast, solving real client problems with precision and ambition. Here, you own your impact; full autonomy, no micromanagement, no fluff.

We hire the best, expect the best, and give you the masterclass of your career. It's hard, it's intense, and it's the most rewarding work you'll ever do. If you're hungry, driven, and ready to build something massive, climb aboard.

Requirements

• 2+ years of Javascript, Typescript, and React experience

• Startup mindset with a strong sense of ownership, urgency, and pragmatism

• Experience in a fast-paced and frequent code deployment environment

• Strong understanding of interaction patterns, responsive layout systems, accessibility, usability principles, and visual design best practices

• Proficient in Figma

• Up-to-date on modern tools and developer workflows (Cursor, Vercel, etc.)

• Ability to solve complex problems independently with minimal guidance

• Willingness to work in person at our office 4-5 days a week

Bonus If You Have

• Experience with advanced web animations and complex visual effects (three.js, webGL, anime.js, GSAP, etc.)

• Experience with mobile design systems

Why Join

Growth and impact. It’s not often that you can get in on the ground floor of a funded (unicorn!) startup that’s scaling so fast. That means that instead of following a playbook, you’ll be writing it. Every single day you will be challenged to identify how we can scale and execute on it. You’ll learn what works when you succeed and what doesn’t when you fail. Either way, the rest of the team will be here to support you.

Benefits

In addition to the growth and impact you’ll have at EliseAI, we offer competitive salaries along with the following benefits:

• Equity in the company

• Medical, Dental and Vision premiums covered at 100%

• Fully paid parental leave

• Commuter benefits

• 401k benefits

• Fitness & home services stipend to cover part of your expenses so you can focus on what matters

• A collaborative in-office environment with an open floor plan, fully stocked kitchen, and all meals covered in the office

• Unlimited vacation and paid holidays

• We'll cover relocation packages and make the move exciting, not painful!

Job Compensation Range

The salary range for this role is $170,000 - $200,000. EliseAI offers a competitive total rewards package which includes base salary, equity, and a comprehensive benefits & perks package. Exact compensation is determined based on a number of factors including experience, skill level, location and qualifications which are assessed during the interview process. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided by our Recruiting Team during the hiring process.

EliseAI provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Please note that employment with EliseAI is on an "at-will" basis, which means that either the employee or the company may terminate the employment relationship at any time, with or without cause or notice.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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