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Salary: USD 150,000 - 200,000 / annual
Method Financial is hiring its first Design Engineer—a senior individual contributor who bridges frontend engineering and product design. You'll own the visual and interactive quality across Method's entire web presence: design system, marketing site, dashboard, and embedded partner experiences.
Method is a developer-first financial connectivity platform that has processed $2.5B in payments and serves 45+ million users through partnerships with SoFi, Bilt, Cleo, Sezzle, Figure, and Aven. The company is rebuilding its entire visual and interactive layer, including a token system (color, typography, spacing), design system from scratch, new marketing site, dashboard with generative UI and charting, and adaptive embedded experiences for partner apps.
Key responsibilities:
- Own visual and interactive quality of the design system, including component states, motion, and cross-surface consistency
- Build shader-based experiences for the website using Three.js and WebGL (hero sections, ambient motion, branded interactive moments)
- Redesign and elevate the dashboard with considered transitions, polished data visualization, and generative UI components driven by JSON
- Architect a component library supporting dynamic, on-the-fly UI construction from structured data
- Make technical judgment calls on bespoke work versus existing tooling; communicate tradeoffs clearly
- Reduce reliance on contractors for production design and frontend UI work
- Collaborate with engineers and Head of Design on direction; help scope and hire adjacent design talent as the team grows
You'll work as a duo with Method's Head of Design to set aesthetic direction and ship work. The role emphasizes frontend craft, open source contributions, and building things worth sharing with the design and creative-coding communities.
Method operates hybrid offices in NYC, Austin, SF, and DC with an expectation of 2-3 days/week in-office on average. The company is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Emergence Capital, Y Combinator, Avra, and Ardent.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Shipped interactive web work requiring shaders; demonstrated Three.js, WebGL, GLSL experience (portfolio required)
- Full-stack understanding from GPU rendering to React component architecture; knowledge of why in-browser execution matters versus video
- Strong aesthetic opinions with technical range to execute without designer-provided comps
- Built production design systems and component libraries used by others
- Individual contributor by nature; default to building
- Experience at design studios, developer tooling companies, creative agencies, or strong indie dev work
- Comfortable being the only person in this specialty; self-directed without requiring structure
- Depth and quality of experience valued over years; title history less important than demonstrated craft
PLUS (not required):
- Background in creative coding, gaming, or CGI
- Open source contributions to Three.js, shader communities, or creative coding libraries
- Experience with motion design tooling (Rive, Framer, Lottie)
- Experience at companies/studios known for frontend craft
- Familiarity with generative UI patterns and JSON-driven component rendering
