Founding Design Engineer

Finta
San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 100,000 - 180,000 annuallyFunction: Entrepreneurship & Venture BuildingSkills: ["Detail-oriented","Communication","Collaboration","Problem-solving"]

Founding Design Engineer at Finta to shape and own the browser-based design system and production UI for a fintech accounting platform. You’ll build components, tokens, and motion, ship polished UI across product, marketing, and site, and explore AI-driven, edge-case interactions. You’ll work closely with the CEO and engineering to set quality, influence product direction, and define the design craft from day one.

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Finta
Finta
5 months ago

Founding Design Engineer

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Job Summary

Founding Design Engineer at Finta to shape and own the browser-based design system and production UI for a fintech accounting platform. You’ll build components, tokens, and motion, ship polished UI across product, marketing, and site, and explore AI-driven, edge-case interactions. You’ll work closely with the CEO and engineering to set quality, influence product direction, and define the design craft from day one.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Entrepreneurship & Venture Building

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build and evolve Finta’s design system: the components, tokens, patterns, and motion language that everything is built on
  • •Ship polished, production-ready UI across product, marketing, and our website
  • •Create reusable building blocks like data tables, filters, navigation, loading states, animations, and interactive patterns
  • •Bring modern interaction design to a Rails codebase with fluid transitions, micro-interactions, and the kind of craft you see in tools like Linear, Cursor, and Vercel
  • •Explore what’s possible at the edge of UI in the age of AI: streaming interfaces, agent status patterns, real-time feedback, and new interaction paradigms

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 100,000 - 180,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionMeal AllowanceGym Membership

Key Requirements

  • •Have deep expertise in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript; you think in the browser, not in abstractions
  • •Production experience with server-rendered stacks: Rails, Hotwire, Turbo, Stimulus, Tailwind, ViewComponent, or similar
  • •Obsess over details like animation timing, easing curves, hover states, spacing, and color
  • •Use AI tools daily to move faster (Cursor, Claude, Conductor, or similar) and can show real examples of shipping with them
  • •Have a strong visual eye and design sensibility, even if your title has always been “engineer"
Experience:FintechSaaS
Skills:Detail-orientedCommunicationCollaborationProblem-solving
Tech Stack:HTMLCSSJavaScriptRuby on RailsHotwireTurboStimulusTailwindViewComponentRailsAI toolsCursorClaudeConductorFigmaPaper

Eligibility

Visa:Will sponsor
Work Authorization:Sponsorship available.

Company Brief

Finta
Finta builds financial operations tools for startups, offering automated budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and financial workflows that integrate with accounting systems to streamline FP&A and investor reporting for growing companies.
Industry: SaaS
Company Size: Small (11 to 50 employees)
Growth: Early Stage Startup
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