Design Engineer

We are hiring a Design Engineer to own how our product looks and feels, and to build it. Taste is the bar for this seat. Paires is an AI-first fundraising platform. We pair founders with the right investors from a large, engaged global investor network, then run the 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 design and build the founder-facing product and our internal platform, and soon an investor-facing portal. You own craft end to end, from the decision to the shipped pixel. What you will own Production UI in Next.js and React, designed and built by you. The founder journey and the investor portal, with the polish that makes them feel premium. A high bar on craft, the details most teams skip. Design decisions, not just implementation. You are a fit if you Design and build production UI yourself, with no handoff loss. Ship React and Next.js, and know Tailwind and Supabase on the front end. Have a portfolio of live products, not just mockups. Have real taste and strong opinions about craft. Move fast with AI tooling and review the output critically. Bonus: shadcn/ui, design systems, motion, data-heavy dashboards. What we offer Fully remote and async. The best AI tooling, paid (Claude Code, Cursor, top models). Compensation: 75,000 to 125,000 GBP per year.  How to apply: hit apply, which takes you to our short application form. We read every application.