Founding Design Engineer

About Bretton AI

Bretton runs AI-native operations for the financial back office. OCC, Fed and FDIC regulated banks use Bretton AI to run compliance, risk, fraud, and operations on one platform, on their own data and policies, with every output traced, cited, and audit-ready. We’ve raised over $95M from Greylock, Y Combinator, Thomson Reuters Ventures and other top tier investors. We’re based in downtown San Francisco and our team comes from world-class organizations like Google, Netflix, Stripe, Plaid, Brex, and more.

About The Role

This is Bretton's first Design Engineer hire. You'll own the production layer of the product's interface and serve as the guardian of the design system in code, building the components and patterns the rest of the product is built on, and holding the line on performance, accessibility, and reliability as our product scales. You'll partner closely with our product designer on overall direction, build on insights from research, and work with the engineering team to translate that work into front-end code that's ready to ship.

What You'll Do

• Own the design system in code. Build, maintain, and evolve the components, primitives, and patterns the rest of the product is built on. Make decisions that constrain future work in healthy ways. This is the role's center of gravity.
• Ship the production version of design-heavy work. Take concepts from prototype to production-grade front-end code.
• Hold the line on performance, accessibility, and reliability for interfaces that compliance analysts use for hours at a time.
• Make agent behavior legible. Compliance reviewers need to understand what Bretton's agents investigated, decided, and flagged, often well enough to defend it under audit. Design and build the interface patterns that earn that trust without overwhelming the default experience.
• Partner with our product designer on direction. Validate ideas through working code, push back when something won't hold up in production, and turn shared decisions into shipped interfaces.
• Pair with engineering to land work in the codebase. Collaborate with the engineering team on architecture, integration, and the long-term health of the front-end.