Design Engineer - Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta - TekRek

Description

Design Engineer

$175,000 – $250,000 USD + Significant Equity

San Francisco, CA – Willing to sponsor U.S. visas

In Office – 6 Days/Week

About the Role

TekRek is working with an early-stage, venture-backed fintech startup that is hiring a founding Design Engineer.

This role will focus on designing and shipping high-quality user interfaces while building AI-powered agents and customer-facing workflows. You'll work directly with the founders in a three-person team, owning both design and frontend implementation from day one.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and ship high-quality user interfaces using Figma, NextJS, Tailwind, and TypeScript
• Build AI-powered agents and customer-facing workflows
• Translate product ideas into polished, production-ready experiences
• Rapidly prototype and iterate on new UI concepts
• Work directly with founders to define product direction
• Make fast, pragmatic design and implementation decisions

Requirements

• Exceptional UI and product design proficiency
• Ability to translate designs into production-ready HTML/CSS/TypeScript
• Strong frontend fundamentals (React / NextJS preferred)
• Experience operating in early-stage or fast-moving environments
• Interest in LLMs and AI-native user experiences
• High agency, urgency, and comfort with ambiguity

We're open to strong product designers who can code at a high level, as well as frontend engineers with exceptional design taste.

Why Apply?

This is a founding-level role with meaningful equity and direct product ownership. You'll help define both the design language and user experience of an AI-native fintech platform from its earliest stages. High impact, high expectations, and significant upside.