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About the role
Mage automates legal due diligence for M&A attorneys. Work that used to take teams of lawyers weeks now happens in minutes. YC S24, founded by a former M&A attorney from Kirkland & Ellis and Gunderson Dettmer.
We're hiring a design engineer to own how the product looks, feels, and works. You'll design features in Figma, then build them yourself in our React codebase. No handoffs.
What You'll Do
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Design and build features end-to-end: From Figma concepts to production React components. No handoffs, no waiting, you ship the whole thing.
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Own the design system: We have a component library built on Radix UI, Tailwind CSS, and tailwind-variants. You'll evolve it as the product grows.
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Solve hard UX problems: How do you display 500 extracted provisions across 200 contracts in a way that's actually usable? How do you make an AI-powered document review feel trustworthy? These are the kinds of problems you'll tackle daily.
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Obsess over details: Micro-interactions, loading states, keyboard shortcuts, error messages. The small things that separate "functional" from "delightful."
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Talk to users: Our users are M&A attorneys. You'll watch them use the product, understand their workflows, and design for how they actually work, not how you think they should.
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The UX challenges are hard. Attorneys review hundreds of contracts with thousands of extracted provisions. Making that feel simple and trustworthy is the job.
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Stack
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Next.js 16, React 19, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Radix UI, TanStack (Query + Table), Motion, dnd-kit, Liveblocks, Figma
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You
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You design and build — Figma to production React, no gap in between
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You've shipped real product UI, not just component libraries
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You think in systems and care about consistency across an entire app
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You make complex, data-heavy interfaces feel simple
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You notice the details: loading states, error messages, transitions, empty states
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Strong with Tailwind CSS and component architecture
Compensation
$100K–$150K + 1.50% founding equity
San Francisco, in person.
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