About Autumn
Autumn is the operating system for independent hospitality. We unify pricing, search, the booking engine, reputation, and email against a single guest record, so a small team can run a marketing stack that usually requires a brand, an agency, and a tech vendor.
We started in New York City in 2025 and serve hundreds of independent hotels across the globe. We earn only when a direct booking lands. Our incentives mirror the operator's.
How we work
- Hire carefully. We open roles when the work demands them, not when the headcount plan says so.
- Ship deliberately. One surface, well, beats three surfaces passably.
- Operator-first. Every engineer spends two days a year on a real front desk.
- Read every email. careers@ and support@ both route to humans who can change the product.
About the role
Design and build in one motion — taste and production code from the same person. As our founding design engineer you own product surfaces from a rough idea to shipped React, set the craft bar for everything customers touch, and turn the messy, manual work of running a hotel into interfaces that need no manual. This is not a designer-who-hands-off role and not a front-end-from-specs role; it's a founding product-builder role.
What you'll do:
- Own product surfaces end-to-end: design in the browser, ship the React, and sweat the typography, motion, empty states, and detail that turn 'functional' into 'great.'
- Translate complex hospitality workflows — revenue, marketing, guest management, daily operations — into interfaces a busy operator understands at a glance.
- Define the design system, interaction patterns, and overall feel of Autumn as we build it from the ground up.
- Prototype AI-native workflows by driving the most advanced AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, v0) from a sketch to a working, interactive prototype in hours — then turn the best ones into real product.
- Work directly with founders and real operators with high agency and little hand-holding, and raise the quality bar for design, UX, and front-end across the company.
Requirements
We don't require formal credentials. We do require:
- Exceptional product taste: a portfolio of shipped interfaces where you did both the design and the front-end build, and can explain why each decision was right.
- Strong front-end engineering — fluent in React / TypeScript / Tailwind and modern CSS, with real care for clean components, responsiveness, motion, and performance.
- Full-stack comfort: you don't need to be an infra engineer, but you can read APIs, data models, and product logic and see how the front end connects to the whole system.
- High agency: you take an ambiguous problem, ask the right questions, make smart assumptions, and move — you don't wait for a perfect spec.
- Genuinely AI-native: you already build with the most advanced AI coding tools daily and can show how they sharpen both your craft and your pace.
- A clear communicator who thrives in a remote, fast-moving team and cares about business outcomes, not just UI polish.
Location
This role is remote within the United States. We're not hiring for it outside the U.S. at this time.