Founding Design Engineer
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About the Role
Garage is seeking a Founding Design Engineer to build polished, production-quality UI for their platform that powers critical asset exchange. You will work directly with the CTO, using React, Next.
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Responsibilities
- Build and ship polished, production quality UI across 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
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
- Strong eye for design and interaction with taste you can both defend and implement
- Comfort working across design, product, and engineering to ship work
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About Us
- 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,
- 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.
About The Role
- 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.
What We’re Looking For
- Strong eye for design and interaction with taste you can both defend and implement.
- Comfort working across design, product, and engineering to ship work.
- You think in systems, not tickets.
- You get excited by operating in a high performance startup environment.
- You would love to be customer facing.
- You play for the front of the jersey, having strong opinions, a willingness to question the status quo, and a drive to become a real expert in whatever space you work in. All while being a great team communicator.
Required
- 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 have
- Startup experience as a technical co founder or early engineer at a Series A/B/C startup.
- 4+ years of experience.
What We Offer
- Competitive salary and stock options
- Health, dental and vision insurance (100% covered)
- Unlimited paid time off every year (in addition to company observed holidays)
- Daily lunch and dinner
- $100 monthly wellness stipend
- 401(k) with employer match
- Pre tax commuter benefits
- Bi annual team offsite
- Relocation assistance
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