Design Engineer

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. See the Kick Memo for more details.

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

We offer

• 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