Founding Design Engineer

San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Visa Sponsorship

About the role

TL;DR:

As a Founding Design Engineer at Parahelp, you’ll work at the intersection of design and frontend engineering to build intuitive user interfaces. You’ll understand customers, design in Figma, and ship production UI that helps companies like Perplexity, ElevenLabs, Photoroom, Replit, and Framer get the most value from Parahelp.

What you’ll do:

  • Design and iterate on UI in Figma.
  • Build reusable components and primitives, and own our design system to ensure consistency and scalability.
  • Build intuitive UI using TypeScript, React, NextJS, tRPC, Prisma, and Tailwind.
  • Work with product and backend engineers to integrate APIs and ship complete features with attention to detail.

You might be a fit if:

  • You are based in San Francisco and excited to work in person.
  • You have a strong portfolio or personal site that showcases your design and front-end work.
  • You have 2–5 years of experience in front-end development with TypeScript and React. You are familiar with NextJS, tRPC, Prisma, Tailwind, and TanStack Query.
  • You love design, care about the details, and want to own the craft.
  • You’re already using AI tools in your day-to-day to build, design, or prototype.
  • You’re excited about moving fast.
  • Bonus: You’ve been a founder before or have comparable zero-to-one experience.

About Parahelp

Parahelp is an AI support agent built for fast-moving software companies, designed to automate complex support tickets end-to-end. It can be set up in just one day without any engineers. The company currently has a team of five people, including three recent hires, with most of the team having been founders or founding engineers. Parahelp is experiencing tremendous growth and is seeking more Founding Engineers to join.

Required skills

React
TypeScript
Next.js
Tailwind

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Job details

Salary

$180,000 - $220,000

Equity

0.2% - 0.4%

Location

San Francisco, CA

Experience

3+ years

Company

NameParahelp
IndustryAI
Team Size10

Funding

Total raised

$21.2M

Last stage

Series A

Investors

Y Combinator

Founders

Anker Ryhl

Anker Ryhl

Co-Founder

LinkedIn
Mads Liechti

Mads Liechti

Co-Founder

LinkedIn

What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.