Design Engineer

We’re building Regbase to make incredibly complex regulatory work feel incredibly simple. As a Design Engineer, you’ll own how that happens in the product: turning dense information, complicated workflows, and new AI capabilities into intuitive, polished experiences that feel obvious to use.
You’ll work closely with the founders and directly with customers to understand how they work, identify where the product falls short, and rapidly design and build better solutions. You’ll spend most of your time in the product, writing code, prototyping interactions, and refining the details that make software feel great. You’ll touch every level of the product, from refining a small interaction to designing and building entirely new workflows from scratch.
You should apply if:
You want an unreasonable amount of ownership over a product. You care deeply about how software works and feels, love turning messy real-world problems into simple experiences, and would rather prototype and ship your ideas than hand them off. We’re early enough that many of the core interactions, workflows, and design conventions of Regbase still need to be invented, and you’ll have a huge role in defining them.
What you will do:
Design and build polished, intuitive experiences across Regbase's core product
Own features from problem definition through interaction design, implementation, and refinement
Become a mini-expert in legal and regulatory systems around the world
Work directly with customers to understand their workflows, pain points, and mental models
Work closely with the founders to shape product direction and prioritize what we build
Set a high bar for the visual and interaction design of the product
Help establish the visual language and interaction patterns of Regbase
About you:
3+ years of experience in Design and Frontend development
Strong visual and interaction design instincts
Intellectually curious about laws, regulations, and public policy
A strong frontend engineer who can take ideas all the way into production
You can take an ambiguous user problem and independently figure out what should be built
You care obsessively about the details of how software behaves and feels
Able to simplify complex systems and information-heavy workflows
Excited about AI products and interested in developing new interaction patterns around LLMs and agents
Bonus if you are:
Comfortable in Typescript, React and Next.js
Experienced building design systems or reusable component libraries
Experienced designing data-dense, workflow-heavy, or professional software
Experienced building interfaces for AI products
Comfortable talking directly with customers and conducting lightweight user research
Have worked at an early-stage startup or in an environment with high product ownership
Located in or willing to relocate to New York
What We Provide:
Work directly with the CTO (former staff engineer at Vercel) and CEO
The opportunity to establish and shape design engineering at the company
The ability to work across engineering, product, and customers
Ship quickly and see your work used directly by customers
A salary of $175k-250k per year
Equity of 0.2-0.5%

Experience
3+ years

Work arrangement
No