Design Engineer

🟣 About Airgoods

Airgoods is building the future of food and beverage distribution.

Today, we help emerging brands (think Fishwife, Ghia and David Protein) rapidly grow their wholesale business and earn placement into the nation’s best specialty food stores.

We started in January 2023 and have since raised $7M from top investors like Y Combinator and Initialized Capital. We are a fully in-person company, with an office near Madison Square Park in New York City.

👋 Who you’ll work with

Paolo (co-founder and CTO): Paolo studied Computer Science and Economics at Yale. Previously worked as a software engineer at his brother’s startup Momence (YC S20). Grew up in Brazil before coming to the US for college. Played soccer at Yale and loves sports.

Elian (co-founder and COO): Elian studied Economics at Yale, played on the soccer team alongside Paolo and captained the team for two years. He also worked with Aaron at an emerging VC fund for 1.5 years of his time at Yale. Grew up in Asia and Europe before moving to Milwaukee before college.

Aaron (co-founder and CEO): Aaron studied Economics at Yale, where he met Elian and Paolo. After Yale, he worked at an emerging VC fund in New York with Elian; that fund would later write the first check into Airgoods. He grew up helping his dad run the wholesale side of a brick & mortar retail store in Portland, Maine.

You’ll also be working alongside four fantastic engineers, Emilio, Sergio, Leck, and Steven, as well as Andrés and Pradnaya, who are part of the Growth & Ops team.

🏗️ About the role

Airgoods is seeking a driven design engineer. This role is the first design & front-end focused role at Airgoods, and you’ll play an extremely important role in shaping the design culture of Airgoods.

You will be working across our frontend codebases, talking to customers, supporting design initiatives, and creating thoughtful, systems-based solutions.

We are on a high-growth trajectory, and we're looking for someone who wants to join us on the journey to building a generational company.

This position will involve:

• Building Airgoods’ design foundation & toolkit.

• Craft high-quality work, inspire those around you, and help establish a design culture within the company.

• Build and prototype. You’ll be core to designing and coding new features, UI components, animations, and interactions that enhance the overall product experience. You’ll be an advocate for best practices in front-end development and performance optimization.

• Collaborate with the growth and engineering teams to produce high-quality products for our customers.

• Advocating for quality of life improvements across the product. Ranging from small UI polish improvements to focusing on performance and page load times.

• You live in the details and are obsessed with creating the best possible user experience.

🚀 Who you are

We are a young company of highly driven and passionate individuals building a billion-dollar business. To thrive in this environment, you’ll have the following characteristics:

• You are driven with a strong work ethic - our team is committed to going the extra mile, even if it means working long nights and weekends to achieve our goals.

• You prioritize speed and have a bias for action.

• You strive for excellence in every aspect of your work - you take ownership of your outcomes and overdeliver on your goals.

• You’re humble and eager to learn whatever it takes to help our team and our customers succeed.

• You play for the front of the jersey.

🛠️ What you bring

Must-haves

• Excellent visual, verbal, UI, and interaction skills.

• Proficiency in front-end technologies (React, ReactNative, Next.js, TypeScript) with a focus on interactions, animation, performance, readability, and polish.

• Passion for design and figuring out best-in-class solutions to UX, UI and interaction challenges.

• You want to take ownership of our Frontend codebases and want to come up with UI/UX for existing and new features.

• Interest in generative design and AI‑assisted creative workflows. (i.e. a0, Figma Make, v0)

Bonus points

• Experience working with Figma, design tokens, and design systems to bridge the gap between design and development.

• Fluency with TailwindCSS, Vercel, and modern web tooling

• Portfolio that showcases pixel‑perfect UI, thoughtful motion, and responsive behavior.

• Prior experience shipping at a hyper‑growth startup.

🎁 What we offer

• $120k - $220k • 0.01% - 0.2%

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• Unlimited PTO + two team offsites per year.

• Expensed dinner in the office Monday - Thursday.

• $400 / month wellness stipend to encourage you to invest in your health.

• Commuter benefits to get you to and from the office.

• Dedicated founders who are committed to building an amazing team and supporting you.

Don’t see a perfect fit? Reach out anyway – exceptional talent always has a home at Airgoods.