Design Engineer

About Kick Overview Kick is an applied AI company building the first self-driving bookkeeping experience. We’re combining machine and tax code to automate the business finances for 60M entrepreneurs. Why Kick - Product obsession - Described as an “Apple-like” user experience on the bleeding edge of application-layer AI product development practices. - World-class team - Kick’s team has deep experience across AI, finance and startups–including a $250M exit with 5M users. - Strategic investors - Backed by OpenAI Startup Fund, General Catalyst and 50+ investors from Stripe, Square and Notion. - Challenge - Helping millions of individual Business Owners with a “hair on fire” problem with the potential to change an industry. - Growth - Unique growth strategy focusing on Accountant partnerships. - Value - Top of market cash and equity compensation. Ideal candidate We’re looking for a Front-end Engineer with a combination of exceptional taste and technical rigor to own our in-product user experience, marketing website & landing pages as we scale. You will - Work closely with Design, Engineering and Growth teams. - Build performant beautiful, responsive websites and landing pages. - Help build and maintain Kick's design system. - Implement creative animations and interactions in code. - Develop special projects to elevate Kick’s brand. We're looking for someone who - Has at least 5 years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on front-end development. - Strong familiarity with React and Typescript. - Has a sense for great user experience and feel when something is off. - Pays attention to detail and aims to provide our users with a delightful experience. - Has strong written and verbal communication skills and enjoys solving user problems. - Has a collaborative mindset and is open to feedback and iterative processes. - A portfolio showcasing a range of technical skills, a creative use of code, and prototyping skills in the form of webflow, microsites, webgl or anything else. - Collaborate through excellent written communication, B2+ English level for verbal communication Bonus if you - Enjoy working in startups and have been part of a team during its growth stage - Have experience of building their own startup or working as a founding engineer - Have experience with modern frontend libraries (e.g. TanStack Query v4) - Experience with SMB, SaaS or fintech Tech - TypeScript, React, NestJS (If you're familiar with different stack don't hesitate to apply) - Postgres, Redis - AWS, Terraform - OpenAI, Azure AI - TypeORM, React Query - Github, Slack, Linear, Figma We offer - Top of market salary and equity based on experience - Paid co-working space; best-in-class equipment - 20 days/year of paid vacation; meet ups in Palo Alto Originally posted on Himalayas