Backed by Y Combinator.
About the role
We’re hiring a Design Engineer, which for us means a designer who builds. To be clear, this isn’t a frontend engineering job where you wait for someone to hand you mockups. You’re the designer. You decide how things should look, feel, and behave, and then you build them yourself in production code, down to the pixel. Use Figma when it helps, but code is where the design actually happens. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 3+ years as a product designer who codes, a design engineer, or a frontend engineer who makes the design calls
- A portfolio of live products or working prototypes with excellent visual and interaction work. This matters more to us than your title or years of experience
- Great taste and strong fundamentals in typography, layout, hierarchy, color, interaction, and motion
- Fluency in React, TypeScript, semantic HTML, and modern CSS, and the ability to ship production-quality frontend code
- Experience building or leading a design system or component library, including tokens and theming
- Comfort in Figma, mostly as a place to explore ideas
More about this role
America’s $13T mortgage market is one of the most important financial systems in the world. It underwrites the middle class and is the mechanism through which millions of families build wealth. But while every other financial instrument has been simplified to an API call, mortgages are still assembled by hand.
We started from zero and created the first vertically integrated mortgage platform that turns origination into a single API.
Publicly traded companies and the country’s largest originators are already building on Pylon. Revenue is compounding monthly. We’re backed by Peter Thiel, Conversion Capital, QED, Citi, Fifth Wall, and the founders of Ramp, Blend, and Mercury.
Working at Pylon isn’t for those seeking comfort. The people who thrive here have high agency, strong opinions, and a track record of delivering outcomes without direction. Many of us are former founders. We move quickly, challenge each other directly, and take full ownership of results. It’s hard work, but it will be worth it.
Join us in building America’s mortgage rails .
We’re hiring a Design Engineer, which for us means a designer who builds.
To be clear, this isn’t a frontend engineering job where you wait...
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