Senior Design Engineer
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- NYC or Palo Alto (in office)
- Work setup
- Onsite
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Category
- Engineering design
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 3+ years as a product designer who codes, a design engineer, or a frontend engineer who makes the design calls
- A portfolio of live products or working prototypes with excellent visual and interaction work. This matters more to us than your title or years of experience
- Great taste and strong fundamentals in typography, layout, hierarchy, color, interaction, and motion
- Fluency in React, TypeScript, semantic HTML, and modern CSS, and the ability to ship production-quality frontend code
- Experience building or leading a design system or component library, including tokens and theming
- Comfort in Figma, mostly as a place to explore ideas
- A strong grasp of accessibility and responsive design
- Experience using AI and agentic coding tools in your design work
- Nice to have: experience designing data-heavy or workflow-heavy products, especially in fintech, lending, or another regulated industry
Full description
About Pylon
America’s $13T mortgage market is one of the most important financial systems in the world. It underwrites the middle class and is the mechanism through which millions of families build wealth. But while every other financial instrument has been simplified to an API call, mortgages are still assembled by hand.
We started from zero and created the first vertically integrated mortgage platform that turns origination into a single API.
Publicly traded companies and the country’s largest originators are already building on Pylon. Revenue is compounding monthly. We’re backed by Peter Thiel, Conversion Capital, QED, Citi, Fifth Wall, and the founders of Ramp, Blend, and Mercury.
Working at Pylon isn’t for those seeking comfort. The people who thrive here have high agency, strong opinions, and a track record of delivering outcomes without direction. Many of us are former founders. We move quickly, challenge each other directly, and take full ownership of results. It’s hard work, but it will be worth it.
Join us in building America’s mortgage rails.
About the role
We’re hiring a Design Engineer, which for us means a designer who builds.
To be clear, this isn’t a frontend engineering job where you wait for someone to hand you mockups. You’re the designer. You decide how things should look, feel, and behave, and then you build them yourself in production code, down to the pixel. Use Figma when it helps, but code is where the design actually happens.
Mortgage is one of the most complicated products most people will ever use, and most mortgage software looks like it. You’ll change that. You’ll design and build the borrower application, borrower dashboards, loan officer tools, and the components customers embed in their own products. You’ll also build the design system that makes everything at Pylon feel fast, clear, and trustworthy.
What you’ll do
- Design and build product experiences yourself, from early exploration to polished production interfaces, with no handoff in the middle
- Own Pylon’s design system, including tokens, type, color, spacing, and a component library that makes it easy for any engineer to build something that looks great
- Build components customers can theme and embed in their own products without losing quality, accessibility, or consistency
- Take complicated workflows and dense mortgage data and make them easy to understand, using layout, hierarchy, interaction, and motion
- Prototype in real code with real data, put it in front of borrowers, loan officers, and customers, and iterate quickly on what you learn
- Get the details right, including states, edge cases, responsiveness, loading and empty states, keyboard interactions, and accessibility