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Design Engineer

We are hiring a Design Engineer to own our frontend and build it to an exceptional bar.

Paires is an AI-first fundraising platform. We pair founders with the right investors from a large, engaged global investor network, then run the warm outreach that turns into meetings. It is a two-sided platform, live with paying clients, profitable and self-funded, built by a small, senior, flat team that ships fast.

The role

You own frontend development at Paires. Design matters a lot to us, and you will not carry it alone: we have an exceptional designer on the team, and you work closely with them while bringing your own taste to the table. The frontend itself has one owner - you. Not a group of engineers taking turns on it. You build the founder-facing product, the internal platform, and soon an investor-facing portal: data-dense screens founders trust with sensitive information. And when a feature needs more than frontend work to come to life, you have the full-stack range to take it all the way. You work inside a tightly knit senior team and report directly to the co-founders.

What you will own

  • Production UI in Next.js and React. The frontend is yours.

  • The founder journey and the investor portal, with the polish that makes them feel premium.

  • Full-stack work where a feature needs it, from backend to shipped screen.

  • Design decisions made together with our designer, and the craft details most teams skip.

You are a fit if you

  • Ship production React and Next.js used by real users, and know Tailwind and Supabase on the front end.

  • Build what you design without a handoff: real taste, strong opinions about craft, and the engineering to ship it yourself.

  • Have a portfolio of live products, not just mockups. We build product UI: dashboards, data-dense workflows, AI-native surfaces. If your portfolio is mostly marketing sites and landing pages, this is not your seat.

  • We open every link and judge the work before we read anything else. Make your first link the live product you are proudest of, not your portfolio homepage or LinkedIn.

  • Can go beyond the frontend when needed: comfortable in the backend, able to ship a feature end to end.

  • Have shipped production work for several years - this seat is not a first job.

  • Move fast with AI tooling and review the output critically.

  • Bonus: shadcn/ui, design systems, motion, data-heavy dashboards, AI-product UI like streaming interfaces and human-review surfaces.

What we offer

Fully remote and async. Your day overlaps with US Eastern time for a few hours - not full US hours. Meetings batch on Mondays and Thursdays, the rest is deep work. The best AI tooling, paid (Claude Code, Cursor, top models).

How to apply: hit apply, which takes you to our short application form. We read every application.

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What this application asks

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Name, Email, Resume

  • Drop a link or description to the thing you have built that you are most proud of (live product, repo, launch). If your best work is closed or confidential, say so and also link anything live you personally own. What exactly was YOUR contribution, and what is one decision you made in it that you would still defend today? Tell us who used it and what it did for them. written answer
  • How do AI tools actually fit into your daily workflow right now? What have you automated, what do you refuse to automate, and what is one thing you changed in your AI stack in the last six months - and why? written answer
  • Link 2-3 live products that best show your taste. Real products that real users use today - name the user base and a rough user count for each. If you only have one product with real users, go deep on that one - one real product beats three hollow links. Your personal site, a studio showreel, or a single component does not count toward the 2-3, though you can add them as extras. For one of them: which specific design decision are you most proud of, and what did you kill to keep the experience clean? written answer
  • Where do you sit on the designer-to-engineer spectrum? Tell us about one production feature you designed AND built entirely yourself, stack included, and the design decision in it that had the clearest impact on how users behaved. written answer

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