Design Engineer

Ambrook

Design Engineer creating user-friendly web and mobile interfaces for agricultural finance. Collaborating with design and engineering to establish quality standards and drive product direction.

Posted 5/9/2026full-timeNew York City • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $140,000 - $210,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

JavaScriptNext.jsReactReact NativeTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Ship beautiful, functional experiences — Design and build user-facing features from concept to production, translating complex agricultural finance workflows into interfaces that feel natural for ranchers and farmers
Own our design system — Build and evolve component libraries, interaction patterns, and design tokens that work seamlessly across web and mobile platforms
Champion product craft — Establish quality standards and processes that ensure every feature we ship solves real problems elegantly
Scale our frontend architecture — Lead improvements to design system infrastructure, development workflows, and tooling as we grow
Collaborate across disciplines — Work with design on visual standards, product on feature requirements, engineering on technical architecture, and directly with customers on real-world usage
Shape what we build — Influence product direction through user research insights, design explorations, and deep understanding of agricultural operations

Requirements

What you’ll need

3+ years building high-quality web and mobile experiences
Design system ownership: You've built or worked extensively with component libraries and understand both the technical and human challenges
Strong design instincts: You can spot when something feels off in a UI and create high-fidelity prototypes in Figma
Advanced frontend skills: Clean, performant code with solid grasp of data structures, async programming, and modern development workflows
Mission-driven: Excited to solve real problems for people who work the land and help family-run businesses become more profitable and resilient
Comfortable with ambiguity: You thrive when balancing user needs, business requirements, and technical constraints to create elegant solutions
Collaborative by nature: Sitting at the center of design and engineering, you work well across disciplines to get things done
Bonus: Experience at fast-moving startups, building financial products, or working with React, TypeScript, React Native, and Next.js

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive salary
Health insurance
401(k) with matching contribution
Flexible vacation time
Flexible work hours
Work-from-home/remote office stipend
Wellness stipend
Professional development stipend

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Hard Skills & Tools

frontend developmentcomponent librarieshigh-fidelity prototypesdata structuresasync programmingReactTypeScriptReact NativeNext.jsweb and mobile experiences

Soft Skills

design instinctsmission-drivencomfortable with ambiguitycollaborative