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Founding Design Engineer

Jinba· Engineering / Design
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA)$150k - $250kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Design engineer who owns the full visual and interactive experience of Jinba's platform, building the design system from the ground up, creating motion for complex workflows, and shipping production frontend code as part of the founding team.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build Jinba's design system: components, tokens, patterns, and documentation
  • Own UI/UX for core product surfaces, from concept through implementation
  • Create motion design that guides users through workflow creation and execution
  • Write clean, maintainable frontend code (we use shadcn/ui and modern React patterns)
  • Collaborate directly with engineering to ship features, not just hand off specs
  • Establish design processes and standards as the first dedicated design hire

Qualifications

  • Strong product design sense with portfolio showing end-to-end ownership
  • Experience building or significantly contributing to a design system
  • Motion design ability: understanding timing, easing, and how animation communicates state
  • Proficient in React/TypeScript; you ship your own designs
  • Familiar with component libraries like shadcn/ui, Radix, or similar
  • Understanding of design tokens, CSS architecture, and scalable frontend patterns
  • Experience with developer tools, no-code platforms, or workflow/automation products
  • Comfort designing complex interfaces: canvas editors, drag-and-drop builders, multi-step flows
  • Ability to simplify dense functionality without dumbing it down

Skills

Required:Product designDesign systemsMotion designReact/TypeScriptCSS architecture / design tokensShadcn/ui / Radix / frontend libraries

Benefits

  • Not specified in the description
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Jinba

Automate enterprise workflows through chat

Jinba lets enterprise teams vibe-code AI workflows instead of drag and drop. Describe what you need in plain language, and your whole company can start using it immediately. No engineers required. Enterprise-grade permissions, audit logging, and on-prem deployment built in. We serve 40,000 enterprise users at major financial institutions. Build something your colleagues want.

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