Founding Design Engineer

Garage•New York, NY

13d•Onsite

About The Position

Garage powers the exchange of critical assets across America’s essential industries. We started with fire departments, where purchasing mission-critical vehicles and equipment used to take months of paperwork, phone calls, and delays. Our agentic platform automates the entire transaction: discovery, payments, freight, paperwork, warranty, and financing. What once took months now takes minutes. In under a year, we’ve expanded to cities and towns in all 50 states and grown revenue more than 10x. Based in New York, we’ve raised $18M from Y Combinator, Initialized Capital, Infinity Ventures, FJ Labs, and other leading investors. We’re moving fast, growing quickly, and just getting started. Good design is a core feature of our platform. When people are looking to buy and sell assets that are valued as much as an actual house, it’s important the product experience is clean, smooth, and intuitive. Since the beginning, we’ve been very intentional about maintaining a high bar for product design. We love going into the details, talking to our customers, and building the pixels nobody asked for but always wanted. You’ll join a small team working directly with the Co-founder and CTO.

Requirements

Strong experience with React, Next.js, Tailwind, and TypeScript in production environments.
Exceptional CSS skills with a proven ability to build pixel-perfect, resilient user interfaces.
Portfolio that demonstrates high-craft frontend or design engineering work.

Nice To Haves

Startup experience as a technical co-founder or early engineer at a Series A/B/C startup.
4+ years of experience.

Responsibilities

Build and ship polished, production-quality UI across our core products (including a mobile app).
Craft UI details including layouts, typography, responsiveness, motion, and micro-interactions using Tailwind CSS.
Contribute to shared UI foundations including components, patterns, and design tokens.
Work across the stack using React, Next.js, and TypeScript to deliver fast, reliable interfaces.
Optimize for performance, accessibility, and maintainability without compromising on design.
Raise the bar for frontend craft through code reviews, critiques, and shared standards.