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. Compensation Range: CA$140K \- CA$230K