Founding Design Engineer

About the role

About us

Our vision is to become the marketplace for everything expensive, specialized, and difficult to move. We’re building the infrastructure that powers the procurement and disposition of assets across America’s essential industries, automating everything from discovery and payments to freight, warranty, and financing. Today, Garage operates in cities and towns across all 50 states and has surpassed $100M+ in annualized transaction volume on the platform.

Our mission is to save local governments and essential services businesses time and money. We started with fire departments two years ago and have since expanded into EMS and heavy-duty, launching new verticals while growing revenue >10x last year.

If you move fast, hold a high bar, and want meaningful ownership in building a category-defining company, Garage is the place to do it.

About the role

Good design is a core feature of our platform. When people are looking to buy and sell assets that are valued as much as an actual house, it’s important the product experience is clean, smooth, and intuitive. Since the beginning, we’ve been very intentional about maintaining a high bar for product design.

We love going into the details, talking to our customers, and building the pixels nobody asked for but always wanted. You’ll join a small team working directly with the Co-founder and CTO.

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Build and ship polished, production-quality UI across our core products (including a mobile app).

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Craft UI details including layouts, typography, responsiveness, motion, and micro-interactions using Tailwind CSS.

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Contribute to shared UI foundations including components, patterns, and design tokens.

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Work across the stack using React, Next.js, and TypeScript to deliver fast, reliable interfaces.

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Optimize for performance, accessibility, and maintainability without compromising on design.

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Raise the bar for frontend craft through code reviews, critiques, and shared standards.

What we’re looking for

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Strong eye for design and interaction with taste you can both defend and implement.

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Comfort working across design, product, and engineering to ship work.

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You think in systems, not tickets.

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You get excited by operating in a high-performance startup environment.

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You would love to be customer-facing.

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You play for the front of the jersey, having strong opinions, a willingness to question the status quo, and a drive to become a real expert in whatever space you work in. All while being a great team communicator.

Required

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Strong experience with React, Next.js, Tailwind, and TypeScript in production environments.