Front End Product Engineer (Visual / Interaction-Focused)

Location: Hudson Square, New York City
Work Model: On-site, 5 days per week
Compensation: $150,000 – $200,000 base salary + equity (dependent on experience)
Visa & Relocation: Visa sponsorship and relocation assistance available

About the Role

We’re hiring a frontend-focused Product Engineer to own the visual quality, interaction patterns, and overall polish of our core application.

This is a front-of-the-front-end role. Your mission is to ensure the product feels best-in-class for lawyers using AI-powered workflows—clean, intuitive, fast, and thoughtfully designed. You’ll focus on the final 10% that separates “works” from “excellent.”

You’ll work closely with engineers, product leaders, and internal legal experts to ship highly polished features that unblock one of our biggest bottlenecks: frontend feature completion. This is a hands-on role at a fast-moving startup where your taste, judgment, and execution will directly shape the product our users touch every day.

What You’ll Do

• Own frontend features end-to-end, from concept through production

• Refine UI details including spacing, typography, motion, states, and transitions

• Design and implement thoughtful micro-interactions and feedback patterns

• Partner closely with product, engineering, and internal domain experts to deliver high-quality experiences

• Improve and evolve component quality, consistency, and usability across the application

• Make independent UX and UI decisions when designs are ambiguous or evolving

• Raise the bar for frontend quality, polish, and execution speed across the team

Must-Have Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience building modern web applications

• Strong frontend skills with React, Vue, or Svelte

• Clear design sense and strong visual judgment

• Experience refining UI details and micro-interactions

• Ability to own frontend features end-to-end with minimal oversight

• Startup experience (early-stage or growth-stage strongly preferred)

• Demonstrated signal of excellence through at least one of the following:

  • Strong startup track record

  • Top-tier academic background

  • Impressive personal projects or portfolio

  • Meaningful open-source contributions

• Willing and able to work fully on-site in NYC

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

• Experience with Tailwind CSS

• Familiarity with Bun or alternative JavaScript runtimes

• Exposure to AI/ML-powered product features

• Experience collaborating closely with design or product teams

• Performance optimization experience

• Ownership or evolution of component systems or design systems

• Comfort shaping UX decisions independently without full design specs

Why This Role

• High ownership and direct impact on a core product

• A craft-first frontend role—not a generic implementation position

• Close collaboration with leadership and domain experts

• Competitive compensation, equity, and relocation support

• Opportunity to shape how professionals interact with AI every day