User Experience Engineer

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New York, NY
130K-150K Annually
Mid level
Financial Services
The Role
Design engaging UI/UX for web and mobile, build front-end experiences with React and Next.js, maintain design systems, and collaborate with teams.
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About Pagaya

Shape the Future of Finance
Pagaya is building a leading artificial intelligence network to help our partners grow their businesses and better serve their customers.

Pagaya is a global technology company making life-changing financial products and services available to more people nationwide, as it reshapes the financial services ecosystem. By using machine learning, a vast data network and a sophisticated AI-driven approach, Pagaya provides comprehensive consumer credit and residential real estate solutions for its partners, their customers, and investors. Its proprietary API and capital solutions integrate into its network of partners to deliver seamless user experiences and greater access to the mainstream economy. Pagaya has offices in New York and Tel Aviv. For more information, visit pagaya.com.

Let's create better outcomes together!

About the Role

We’re looking for a hybrid User Experience Engineer to join our growing team. This is a hands-on, dual-discipline role—perfect for someone who loves both designing in Figma and building in code. You’ll play a key role in shaping the user experience from early concepts to polished implementation, contributing to everything from design systems to deployment. This is a great opportunity to build an in-house practice with wide access to stakeholders across all teams. Your work will have a direct impact with Pagaya's growth journey. 

Responsibilities

  • Design intuitive, engaging UI/UX for web and mobile using Figma
  • Build responsive, performant front-end experiences with Next.js, React, and V0.dev
  • Contribute to and maintain scalable design systems using Tailwind CSS
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams—product, engineering, content—to deliver cohesive user experiences
  • Integrate your work with a range of CMS platforms such as WordPress, Webflow, Builder.io, and/or Storyblock.
  • Support site builds and optimization on WPEngine and Vercel
  • Follow and apply website compliance standards (accessibility, performance, SEO)
  • Utilize GitHub for version control, branching, pull requests, and peer reviews
  • Maintain awareness of plugin ecosystems, selecting and integrating tools as needed (GreenHouse, Safebase)
  • Ensure a high level of detail, documentation, and organization in both design and code
  • Work on a flexible schedule with strong ownership of your time and deliverables

Requirements

  • 1–4 years of experience in product design and/or frontend engineering
  • Strong proficiency with Figma and an eye for layout, typography, and interaction design
  • Familiarity with React, Next.js, and eagerness to deepen frontend engineering skills
  • Comfortable working with GitHub and Homebrew-based development workflows
  • Experience deploying to platforms like Vercel and WPEngine
  • Confident in managing and customizing WordPress sites and plugins
  • Proactive about learning and implementing AI tools like V0.dev
  • Experience working across various CMS platforms with a fast learning curve
  • Clear communicator who thrives in a collaborative, hybrid creative/technical environment
  • Strong attention to website compliance standards (WCAG, SEO, performance best practices)

Nice to Haves

  • Experience maintaining or contributing to a shared design system
  • Exposure to motion/interaction design and animation tooling
  • Background in startup environments or lean product teams

The pay ranges for New York-based hires are commensurate with candidate experience. 

Pay ranges for candidates working in locations other than New York may differ based on the cost of labor in that location.

Compensation Range for New York Based Hires
$130,000$150,000 USD

Our Team

Pagaya was founded in 2016 by seasoned research, finance, and technology entrepreneurs with our head quarters located in NYC and Tel Aviv. 

We move fast and smart, identifying new opportunities and building end-to-end solutions from AI models and unique data sources. Every Pagaya team member is solving new and exciting challenges every day in a culture based on partnership, collaboration, and community.

Join a team of builders who are working every day to enable better outcomes for our partners and their customers.

Our Values

  • Continuously Learn- We challenge ourselves for the sake of getting better as individuals, as teams, and as an organization to deliver for our partners.
  • Debate and Commit- We respectfully and openly debate to strengthen our ideas and build shared conviction - once we decide, we go all in, together.
  • Dream Big and Act- We boldly tackle complex problems, pressure-test solutions in real-time, and adapt with speed and energy.
  • Advance Inclusion- We create a world where everyone can win, designing systems that better represent people and generate sustainable value for our employees, partners and investors.
  • Be Accountable Together- We proudly own our actions and our results, taking initiative to ensure our work gets over the finish line as a team.

More than just a job

We believe health, happiness, and productivity go hand-in-hand. That's why we're continually looking to enhance the ways we support you with benefits programs and perks that allow every Pagayan to do the best work of their life. 

Top Skills

Ai Tools
Figma
Git
Next.Js
React
Tailwind Css
Vercel
Webflow
Wordpress
Wpengine
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The Company
HQ: New York, NY
790 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2016

What We Do

Pagaya is financial technology company that enables financial institutions to expand access to more customers through its artificial intelligence network

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