Senior Design Engineer

Mesa Job Opportunity Mesa is building a new GitHub: not just for code, but for all knowledge work. We're seeking a maker: someone with hardcore frontend skills plus taste. You should feel comfortable writing high-performance frontends, building component libraries, and building a well-crafted user experience. You'll be responsible for various parts of our user-facing surface area including our web app, docs, APIs and other frontend surfaces. You'll define and own your own projects, interact with customers, communicate your progress, and see the gaps to proactively improve the product. Our tech stack is: Typescript Tanstack Start with ReactShadCN + Tailwind FigmaMesa is led by two repeat founders: Oliver Gilan (CEO) - prev co-founded Antimetal, ex Census, Microsoft Benjamin Warren (CTO) - ex YC, Census, Microsoft We are backed by deeply technical investors including Innovation Endeavors, Essence VC, South Park Commons, Thomas Wolf (CSO @ Hugging Face), Soleio, and others. Solve a high-leverage problem: A new type of software stack is being born around the development of software driven by agents. Solving part or all of that stack is a great way to create value. Push product boundaries: The next GitHub won't just be GitHub with a prettier design, it'll require fundamentally new interaction modes and workflows. Build for yourself: A forge for knowledge work must, first and foremost, be useful for the knowledge work that is software development. You'll be a good fit if you…Are driven by product outcomes. You care more about the end-user experience than the tech stack or planning process. Care about the craft: The world of software is splitting into slop on one side and well-crafted software on the other side. Mesa is focused on building high-quality software. Want to grind and be recognized. Effort is the only input that is entirely in our control. If you are compelled by a grand mission, high effort feels easy. Our main office is located in downtown San Francisco and most of the team works from there but we have distributed coworkers who fly out to meet us once a quarter. We generally work from home on the weekends.