Manifest Os
Design Engineer
New York City. Posted a month ago
The role
You will build a legal tech platform by owning the development of secure client portals and enterprise-grade systems. You will work across AI systems architecture and full-stack engineering including APIs, data models, and agent orchestration.
What you will do
- Evolve the design system into scalable components and tokens
- Promote recurring patterns into tested, documented primitives
- Build guardrails including token linting, visual regression testing, and component documentation
- Own features end to end from the UI through the APIs and database tables
- Build UI that holds up to production usage including failure modes, caching, and accessibility
- Partner with design on AI-native interfaces
Required qualifications
- 7+ years building production software with depth in at least one area (frontend, distributed systems, ML/AI systems)
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical work experience
- Proven track record delivering features that produce measurable business outcomes
- Built or meaningfully shaped a production design system that other engineers adopted and shipped with
- Comfort with relational database design and data modeling
- Fluent with AI coding tools as a core part of your daily workflow
- A track record of self-teaching your way into unfamiliar systems and shipping there
- First-principles and systems thinking
- Familiarity with TypeScript, React, GCP, PostgreSQL
Nice to have
- Deeply engaged with the AI tooling ecosystem
- Experience making a design system legible to AI coding tools
- Experience with eval systems, retrieval, agent orchestration OR ML in production
- Background building client portals, CRMs, or case management systems
- Familiarity with legal tech or other regulated industries
About the company
Manifest OS is an AI-native company on a mission to replace the billable hour and make legal services more accessible for American businesses and consumers. They power the next generation of AI-native law firms with a proprietary technology platform and a centralized back office.