Design Engineer

Role Summary

About Kick

Kick is an applied AI company building the first self-driving bookkeeping experience. We’re combining machine and tax code to automate the business finances for 60M entrepreneurs.

Why Kick

Product obsession - Described as an “Apple-like” user experience on the bleeding edge of application-layer AI product development practices.

World-class team - Kick ’s team has deep experience across AI, finance and startups–including a $250M exit with 5M users.

Strategic investors - Backed by OpenAI Startup Fund, General Catalyst and 50+ investors from Stripe, Square and Notion.

Challenge - Helping millions of individual Business Owners with a “hair on fire” problem with the potential to change an industry.

Growth - Unique growth strategy focusing on Accountant partnerships.

Value - Top of market cash and equity compensation.

Ideal candidate

We’re looking for a Front-end Engineer with a combination of exceptional taste and technical rigor to own our in-product user experience, marketing website & landing pages as we scale.

You will

Work closely with Design, Engineering and Growth teams.

Build performant beautiful, responsive websites and landing pages.

Help build and maintain Kick 's design system.

Implement creative animations and interactions in code.

Develop special projects to elevate Kick ’s brand.

We're looking for someone who

Has at least 5 years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on front-end development.

Strong familiarity with React and Typescript.

Has a sense for great user experience and feel when something is off.

Pays attention to detail and aims to provide our users with a delightful experience.

Has strong written and verbal communication skills and enjoys solving user problems.

Has a collaborative mindset and is open to feedback and iterative processes.

A portfolio showcasing a range of technical skills, a creative use of code, and prototyping skills in the form of webflow, microsites, webgl or anything else.

• Collaborate through excellent written communication, B2+ English level for verbal communication
• Bonus if you
• Enjoy working in startups and have been part of a team during its growth stage
• Have experience of building their own startup or working as a founding engineer
• Have experience with modern frontend libraries (e.g. TanStack Query v4)
• Experience with SMB, SaaS or fintech
• Tech
• TypeScript, React, NestJS (If you're familiar with different stack don't hesitate to apply)
• Postgres, Redis
• AWS, Terraform
• OpenAI, Azure AI
• TypeORM, React Query
• Github, Slack, Linear, Figma

Benefits

• Top of market salary and equity based on experience
• Paid co-working space; best-in-class equipment
• 20 days/year of paid vacation; meet ups in Palo Alto