Front-End Design Engineer

About EliseAI

We're improving the industries that matter most: housing and healthcare. Everyone needs a place to live and access to quality healthcare, yet both are often harder to secure than they should be. By integrating AI agents deeply into existing workflows, we make them more efficient, reduce costs, and improve the experience for everyone.

About The Role

We’re hiring our first dedicated Frontend / Design Engineer to own the end-to-end user experience across our core products and marketing site. In this role, you’ll operate at the intersection of design and engineering, establishing and implementing the design system, shaping the visual language of the platform, and rebuilding key interfaces to drive greater consistency, clarity, and usability.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner closely with design, product, and engineering to develop, maintain, and evolve our design system, ensuring aesthetic cohesion and a scalable front-end architecture
• Collaborate with PMs and engineers to align on requirements, feasibility, and sequencing, helping shape how features are built from concept through launch
• Document patterns, promote consistency, and drive adoption of shared systems across teams
• Own and define our process and approach to frontend development as the first design engineer, acting as a bridge between design intent and production code
• Translate Figma designs into pixel-perfect, accessible, and performant interfaces with a focus on visual consistency and high-quality user experience
• Design and implement thoughtful UI interactions and micro-interactions that enhance clarity, feedback, and usability across the product
• Refactor existing surfaces to implement the design system, improve usability, and unify the visual language across the product and marketing site
• Arrive at top-tier talent to join our driven team
• Move at rocket speed, build something massive. We’re scaling fast, solving real client problems with precision and ambition. Here, you own your impact; full autonomy, no micromanagement, no fluff

Requirements

• 2+ years of Javascript, Typescript, and React experience
• Startup mindset with a strong sense of ownership, urgency, and pragmatism
• Experience in a fast-paced and frequent code deployment environment
• Strong understanding of interaction patterns, responsive layout systems, accessibility, usability principles, and visual design best practices
• Proficient in Figma
• Up-to-date on modern tools and developer workflows (Cursor, Vercel, etc.)
• Able to solve complex problems independently with minimal guidance
• Willingness to work in person at our office 4-5 days a week

Bonus

• If You Have Experience with advanced web animations and complex visual effects (three.js, webGL, anime.js, GSAP, etc.)
• Experience with mobile design systems

Job Compensation Range

The salary range for this role is $170,000 - $200,000. EliseAI offers a competitive total rewards package which includes base salary, equity, and a comprehensive benefits & perks package. Exact compensation is determined based on a number of factors including experience, skill level, location and qualifications which are assessed during the interview process.