Design Engineer (Senior / Staff / Principal)

About Us

Monarch came out of private beta in early 2021. Since that time we have quickly become one of the premier ways to manage your financial life. Customers love the product and we have seen rapid, organic growth. Our users say that Monarch helps them feel more confident in their finances, and more confident in their financial future.

Our founding team consists of product-driven, serial entrepreneurs with multiple exits. Additionally, our CEO was one of the original creators of Mint.com and has a unique perspective on what is needed to meet consumers' needs in this market.

We are passionate about building a company, product and brand that both customers and employees love. We are well-funded by top venture firms and angel investors.

We founded the company as a fully-remote team (pre Covid!) and are open to applicants that live within a 5 hour time zone difference of US Pacific Time.

Summary

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

Responsibilities

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.

Requirements

• 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.

• Medical, dental and vision benefits (Full time US only).

• 401k (US only).

• Unlimited PTO.

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

• These benefits are offered to full-time employees only**

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.