Design Engineer

We are hiring a senior 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: Easy Apply, and answer the screening questions honestly.