Location: NYC / Remote (US-based, flexible) Compensation: $150K-$200K + Equity

About the Company

At Matter, we believe in empowering small teams with technology that makes it easier to market and grow businesses. Our current focus it to help consumer brands shift from "workflow automation" to "agent management” within their marketing operations. Matter is the AI coordination layer — providing shared AI memory, centralized agent control, and model differentiation. We founded the company based on a decade of experience providing marketing services to 300+ consumer brands, leveraging that expertise to develop interfaces that streamline user experience in the era of AI.

Why join Matter?

• Founding Engineer Equity You'll get a meaningful equity stake; early-stage and undiluted.
• Product Ownership You'll ship production code daily and help steer key product and technical decisions.
• Shape the Engineering Culture You'll influence how we work—tools, processes, standards, and hiring.
• Work with Challenger Consumer Brands Talk directly to customers (CEOs, CMOs, VP's) of fast-growing consumer brands — some doing $80M–$500M in revenue.

Don't join Matter if...

• Work-life balance is a high priority for you
• you're uncomfortable changing stack-ranked priorities every 24-48 hours
• you're not confident in your abilities to manage end-to-end solutions
• you require a ton of devops resources to be successful

About The Role

We’re looking for a Design Engineer who owns the front-end user experience from concept to production. This role is equal parts design sensitivity and engineering precision. You’ll prototype new ideas, bring motion-rich interfaces to life, and ship polished, high-performance UIs that elevate the way users interact with our product.

You’ll work closely with back-end engineers to ensure features work end-to-end, debugging issues along the way.