Design Engineer
Hybrid (New York, NY / Austin, TX)$150k - $200kFull-timePosted 2mo ago
About the role
First Design Engineer for Method Financial, responsible for visual, interactive, and frontend craft across web properties including design system, marketing site, dashboards, and embedded experiences.
Responsibilities
- Own the visual and interactive quality of Method's design system including component states, motion, and consistency across surfaces.
- Build shader-based experiences for the website using Three.js and WebGL: hero sections, ambient motion, branded interactive moments.
- Redesign and elevate the dashboard beyond a reskin; include polished data visualization and generative UI components driven by JSON.
- Architect a component library that supports dynamic, on-the-fly UI construction (charts, layouts, elements assembled from structured data).
- Make judgment calls on when to invest in bespoke work versus leveraging existing tooling, and communicate tradeoffs.
- Reduce reliance on contractors for production design and front-end UI work.
- Collaborate with engineers and Head of Design on design direction; eventually help scope and hire adjacent design talent as the team grows.
Qualifications
- Shipped interactive web work that required writing shaders; Three.js, WebGL, GLSL.
- Understands full stack from GPU rendering to React component architecture; browser performance significance.
- Strong aesthetic opinions and ability to execute independently without a dedicated designer.
- Built production design systems and component libraries that others actually use.
- Individual contributor by nature; comfortable being the only specialist for a period.
- Experience at design-focused studios, developer tooling companies, creative agencies, or strong indie dev work.
- Depth/quality of experience over years; open to candidates without a formal Design Engineer title.
Skills
Required:Shaders (GLSL)Three.jsWebGLReactDesign Systems
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, Vision; basic medical plans 100% covered
- Flexible PTO
- $30/day Lunch allowance when working from the office
- 12 weeks parental leave
- Commuter benefits; employer-sponsored
- Phone/internet stipend
- WFH stipend
- Student loan repayment contribution
- Lifestyle Spending stipend
- Learning & Development stipend
- Hybrid-office stocked with snacks
- Quarterly team off-sites
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Method Financial
Financial connectivity API for consumer liabilities
Method provides connectivity to consumer credit and liability accounts, enabling end-to-end refinance experiences, real-time account data access, and one-click checkout.
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