Design Engineer (Senior / Staff / Principal)

About Us:

Monarch is a powerful, all-in-one personal finance platform designed to help make the complexity of finances feel simple again. Since launching in 2021, we’ve become the top-recommended personal finance app by users and experts. Our goal? To take the stress out of finances so our members can focus on what truly matters.

We are a team of do-ers led by experienced entrepreneurs who are passionate about helping our members reach their financial goals. We are hyper focused on building a product people love and continuing to evolve based on user feedback.

As a fully remote company (even before COVID!), we welcome applicants from almost anywhere. Our team collaborates synchronously mostly from 9 AM – 2 PM PT and embraces asynchronous work to stay connected across time zones.

Join us on our mission to transform lives by simplifying money, together.

The Role:

This role  is crucial for growing and evolving our web and mobile apps, focusing primarily on frontend and UI (React/React Native/ Typescript)  while occasionally willing to jump into the backend code (Python / Django)  as needed. This role involves close collaboration with product, design, and engineering teams to ensure we are building a world class user experience, always keeping our users in mind. You will typically work with a lot of autonomy, and be expected to "own" the full implementation of whatever you work on.

Seniority Level: Senior, Staff, or Principal

What You'll Do:

As an early Design Engineer at Monarch, you’ll sit at the intersection of design and engineering. You’ll work closely with the design team to brainstorm and build feature enhancements and new user experiences, ensuring a high quality bar for our product. You’ll own creating a refined, polished experience across both our desktop and mobile platforms, while also developing a design system empowering engineers to maintain this high level of polish.

Example projects you’d work on:

• Work closely with a designer to build a testable prototype of a new Monarch feature.

• Built a set of flexible, composable components in our design system that allow other engineers to build out new flows very quickly.

• Enhancing existing features to transform money management from a chore into a delightful experience.

• Ensure we’re writing clean, optimized and maintainable code.

• Keeping up to date with industry trends and bringing the newest frontend technologies to the Monarch team.

What You'll Bring:

• 3+ years of experience as a Design Engineer, UX/UI engineer, or similar role.

• Expertise in React and React Native

• Strong background in both web and mobile UX/UI design.

• Comfortable in design tools like Figma

• Enjoy working in a small team environment; prior startup experience is a plus.

Benefits :

• Work wherever you want! As a fully remote company with no central office, we want you to work wherever you are happiest and most productive. Whether that’s out of your home, a co-working space, or elsewhere.

• Competitive cash and equity compensation in a hyper growth, early stage company 🚀.

• Stipend to set-up your ideal working environment.

• Competitive Benefit Plans for employees based on your location (e.g. in the US we offer: Medical, dental and vision benefits and the ability to contribute to a 401k plan).

• Unlimited PTO.

• 3 day weekend every month! We take off the “First Friday” every month to focus on rest, recuperation, or just having fun!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.