Design Engineer

🏢 Method · 📍 New York, NY · 💼 hybrid · ⏰ FullTime
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Position Summary & Responsibilities

Meet Method

Method has built the most modern way to connect to consumer financial accounts. Combining real-time liability connectivity with instant payment execution, Method’s API is designed to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use.

We have helped 45+ million users connect 350+ million liability accounts credential-less and processed over $2.5B in payments, helping users save millions in interest. One in every three credit cards in the United States is in the Method ecosystem and leading financial institutions like SoFi, Bilt, Cleo, Sezzle, Figure & Aven rely on our APIs to build magical experiences for millions of consumers.

We’re a team of 50+ people spread across offices in Austin, SF, New York City, and Washington D.C! We’re excited to continue the momentum working alongside our investors and advisors from Andreessen Horowitz, Emergence Capital, Y Combinator, Avra, and Ardent. To learn more about us, check out our blog!

About the role

We're hiring Method's first Design Engineer. This is someone who spends most of their time in the code, but with an elite eye and talent for product, visual, and motion design. You'll partner with our Head of Design to own the craft layer across all of Method's web properties: website, design system, demos, and product. You'll work as a duo to set the aesthetic direction, make the technical calls, and ship the work.

Method is a developer-first financial connectivity platform, and our visual identity should feel like it. We want our products to feel precise, technically credible, and genuinely interesting to look at.

We're rebuilding our entire visual and interactive layer at once: a token system covering color (built on perceptual color science), typography, and spacing, a design system from the ground up, a new marketing site, a dashboard with generative UI and charting, and the embedded experience our partners put in front of their own users. Because the embedded product runs inside our partners' apps, it needs to adapt to match their brand, automatically.

You'll work closely with engineers and our Head of Design to bring a

🎯 Candidate Preparation Guide For Method Applicants

Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights

Key Role Focus:

Measures obsessive product craftsmanship, design-forward thinking, and the ability to simplify complex systems.

📋 Preparation Priorities (Key Areas to Clarify):
  • 1. Treating design or product execution as merely cosmetic rather than foundational to utility.
  • 2. Showing defensiveness when feedback is given on a past project.
  • 3. Presenting portfolio work without articulating the underlying business metrics.
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I build intuitive products that turn complex, tedious workflows into delightful, high-retention user experiences.

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