# Founding Design Engineer at Finta

- Company: Finta (YC W23)
- What the company does: Magically simplify accounting and taxes. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://www.finta.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $100K to $180K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-02-26
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/finta/jobs/4PPf5gR-founding-design-engineer
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/finta-founding-design-engineer/

## About the role

We’re looking for a Founding Design Engineer to raise the bar on how Finta looks and feels. You’ll sit at the intersection of design and engineering, someone who obsesses over animation curves, spacing, and interaction details, and also ships production code. You won’t be designing in Figma and handing off specs. You’ll be designing in the browser, building the components and systems that make Finta feel like the best software our customers have ever used.

## What they're looking for

- Build and evolve Finta’s design system: the components, tokens, patterns, and motion language that everything is built on
- Ship polished, production-ready UI across product, marketing, and our website
- Create reusable building blocks like data tables, filters, navigation, loading states, animations, and interactive patterns
- Bring modern interaction design to a Rails codebase with fluid transitions, micro-interactions, and the kind of craft you see in tools like Linear, Cursor, and Vercel
- Explore what’s possible at the edge of UI in the age of AI: streaming interfaces, agent status patterns, real-time feedback, and new interaction paradigms
- Work directly with the CEO and engineering team to shape what we build and how it feels

Tags: Engineering