Design Engineer

Ambrook•New York, NY

2d•Remote

About The Position

Ambrook is seeking a Design Engineer to join their world-class team. This role involves driving technical decisions and influencing product direction for a Series A startup backed by prominent investors. The Design Engineer will focus on rebuilding the financial infrastructure for independent agricultural operators, making their businesses more profitable and resilient. The position emphasizes product craft, design systems, user experience, and technical implementation, aiming to create beautiful, performant interfaces that solve real problems for agricultural operators. The role requires translating complex financial workflows into intuitive and accessible interfaces, shipping high-quality frontend code, and collaborating across design and engineering disciplines.

Requirements

3+ years building high-quality web and mobile experiences
Experience building or working extensively with component libraries and understanding both the technical and human challenges
Ability to spot when something feels off in a UI and create high-fidelity prototypes in Figma
Clean, performant code with solid grasp of data structures, async programming, and modern development workflows
Excited to solve real problems for people who work the land and help family-run businesses become more profitable and resilient
Comfortable thriving when balancing user needs, business requirements, and technical constraints to create elegant solutions
Works well across disciplines to get things done

Nice To Haves

Experience at fast-moving startups
Experience building financial products
Experience working with React, TypeScript, React Native, and Next.js

Responsibilities

Design and build user-facing features from concept to production, translating complex agricultural finance workflows into interfaces that feel natural for ranchers and farmers
Build and evolve component libraries, interaction patterns, and design tokens that work seamlessly across web and mobile platforms
Establish quality standards and processes that ensure every feature we ship solves real problems elegantly
Lead improvements to design system infrastructure, development workflows, and tooling as we grow
Work with design on visual standards, product on feature requirements, engineering on technical architecture, and directly with customers on real-world usage
Influence product direction through user research insights, design explorations, and deep understanding of agricultural operations