Software Product Design Engineer
Y Combinator10 months ago
Base Salary
$250k - $500k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design clear, compelling UI/UX and produce high-quality product mocks.
- Translate design mocks into pixel-perfect, production-ready frontend code.
- Improve existing interfaces through better layout, interactions, motion, and design consistency.
- Own feature design and implementation end-to-end in collaboration with engineers, partners, and stakeholders.
- Rapidly prototype ideas, gather feedback, and iterate quickly.
- Contribute to design systems, component libraries, and frontend patterns.
- Talk to users, observe product usage, and improve experiences based on real feedback.
Requirements
- Strong UX and visual design skills with demonstrated product taste and craftsmanship.
- Frontend engineering experience with React, TypeScript, and modern CSS.
- Ability to work fluidly between design tools such as Figma and frontend code.
- Ability to ship quickly, iterate from feedback, and take ownership.
- Strong attention to polish, including typography, spacing, micro-interactions, and transitions.
- Comfort defining scope and driving work forward with limited direction.
Benefits
- Medical, vision, and dental plans; infertility benefits; short- and long-term disability; and life insurance.
- Commuter benefits, flexible spending account, health savings account, and 401(k) with 4% matching.
- Generous parental leave, paid holidays, and flexible paid time off.
- In-person role at YC’s Dogpatch campus in San Francisco, five days per week; candidates must live in the SF Bay Area or relocate.
- Generous relocation support is available for candidates moving to San Francisco.
- YC offers a profit-sharing program comparable to equity in an early-stage startup or carry in a VC fund.
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About Y Combinator
Y Combinator is a startup accelerator and seed investor that funds and advises early-stage companies in exchange for equity, running biannual batches and Demo Days. Founded in 2005 and based in Mountain View, California, it has backed firms such as Airbnb, Stripe, and Dropbox. YC also builds developer-facing products for the AI-native era, including open-source tools like gstack and gbrain and proprietary offerings such as Paxel.