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.