Front-End Design Engineer

About the role

At EliseAI, we are actively improving industries that matter most - housing and healthcare. Everyone needs a place to live and access to quality healthcare, yet both can be harder to secure than they should be. By integrating AI agents deeply into existing workflows, we make operations more efficient, reduce costs, and improve the experience for all people we serve. With EliseAI, organizations reduce manual work, improve accessibility, and deliver a seamless experience across essential services. We recently raised a $250 million Series E round led by Andreessen Horowitz to accelerate this mission. We are hiring our first dedicated Frontend / Design Engineer to own the end-to-end user experience across our core products and marketing site.

This role sits at the intersection of design and engineering. You will establish and implement the design system, shape the visual language of the platform, and rebuild key interfaces to drive greater consistency, clarity, and usability. You will operate with autonomy and move at rocket speed, building something massive alongside a driven team.

What you'll do

• Partner closely with design, product, and engineering to develop, maintain, and evolve our design system, ensuring aesthetic cohesion and a scalable front-end architecture.
• Collaborate with PMs and engineers to align on requirements, feasibility, and sequencing, helping shape how features are built from concept through launch.
• Document patterns, promote consistency, and drive adoption of shared systems across teams.
• Own and define our process and approach to frontend development as the first design engineer, acting as a bridge between design intent and production code.
• Translate Figma designs into pixel-perfect, accessible, and performant interfaces with a focus on visual consistency and high-quality user experience.
• Design and implement thoughtful UI interactions and micro-interactions that enhance clarity, feedback, and usability across the product.
• Bring high-quality interaction patterns to life, including transitions, states, and responsive behaviors that make the interface feel polished and intuitive.
• Work closely with engineering to ensure components ship with the intended fidelity, reducing visual regressions and post-launch polish work.
• Refactor existing surfaces to implement the design system, improve usability, and unify the visual language across the product and marketing site.
• Attract top-tier talent to join our driven team by building and maintaining an exceptional user interface.
• Solve complex problems independently with minimal guidance while maintaining a high standard for usability and visual execution.
• Operate with full autonomy in a fast-paced, high-impact environment and contribute to a culture of ownership where you deliver your best work without micromanagement.

Requirements

• 2+ years of Javascript, Typescript, and React experience.
• Startup mindset with a strong sense of ownership, urgency, and pragmatism.
• Experience in a fast-paced and frequent code deployment environment.
• Strong understanding of interaction patterns, responsive layout systems, accessibility, usability principles, and visual design best practices.
• Proficient in Figma.
• Up-to-date on modern tools and developer workflows (Cursor, Vercel, etc.).
• Ability to solve complex problems independently with minimal guidance.
• Willingness to work in person at our office 4-5 days per week.
• Based in New York City.

Bonus If You Have

• Experience with advanced web animations and complex visual effects (three.js, webGL, anime.js, GSAP, etc.).
• Experience with mobile design systems.

Why Join

This is a rare opportunity to join a funded unicorn startup that is scaling fast. You will write the playbook as we grow, learning what works when we succeed and what doesn't when we fail, with the support of the rest of the team. You will be challenged daily to identify how we can scale and execute on ambitious goals.

Benefits

In addition to growth and impact, we offer competitive salaries along with the following benefits:

• Equity in the company
• Medical, Dental and Vision premiums covered at 100%
• Fully paid parental leave
• Commuter benefits
• 401k benefits
• Fitness & home services stipend to cover part of your expenses so you can focus on what matters
• A collaborative, high-performance culture where your contributions have immediate and visible impact