As a Design Engineer, you will create and maintain responsive websites, implement animations, and ensure a delightful user experience while collaborating with design and growth teams.
About Kick
OverviewKick 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.
- 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
Kick (kick.co) Palo Alto, California, USA Office
530 Lytton Ave, Palo Alto, California, United States, 94301
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