Sofware Engineer - Frontend

This range is provided by Airgoods. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

$/yr - $/yr

Airgoods is building the future of food and beverage distribution.

Today, we help emerging brands 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.

You’ll work with Paolo (co-founder and CTO),
Elian (co-founder and COO), and Aaron (co-founder and CEO), as well as four fantastic engineers and the Growth & Ops team.

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.

• 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.
• Collaborate with the growth and engineering teams to produce high-quality products for our customers.
• Advocating for quality of life improvements across the product.
• You live in the details and are obsessed with creating the best possible user experience.

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.

Must-haves

• Excellent visual, verbal, UI, and interaction skills.
• Proficiency in front-end technologies (React, React Native, Next.js, Type Script) 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.

Bonus points

• Experience working with Figma, design tokens, and design systems to bridge the gap between design and development.
• Fluency with Tailwind
  
  CSS, Vercel, and modern web tooling
• Portfolio that showcases pixel‑perfect UI, thoughtful motion, and responsive behavior.
• Prior experience shipping at a hyper‑growth startup.

• $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.