Front-End Design Engineer

Full-Time
SDE I-III
Bangalore

About jhana

jhana is an early-stage AI startup building intelligent and fundamental tools for legal services, founded at Harvard and based in BLR. We’ve recently launched and seed funded by the founders of Freshworks, Eka Software, CRED, RazorPay, InfrHQ executives from VMWare and OpenAI, and funds including Together Fund, Blume Ventures, and GradCapital.

We are looking for a Front-End Design Engineer to build delightful user interfaces.


Is this you?

  • You are obsessed with design and UX, and will eagerly spend 5 hours to save the client 5 seconds.

  • Mastery of JS (ES6), React, HTML, CSS and Figma is expected, React Spring or Framer Motion, CSS scaffolding libraries, and NextJS strongly preferred

  • Familiar with UI/UX best practices, and confident establishing new practices in uncharted areas based on first principles thinking and user research

  • Crave ownership over problem statements

  • Hungry for impact and to write code that is actually shipped


Bonus

  • Experience with Adobe suite for asset generation and modification (vector, photo, and/or video)

  • Well-versed in Git best practices for collaboration and stable CI/CD

  • Confident with sophisticated uses of tools like Babel, Webpack, and Yarn


What will you be doing?

  • Building ground-up component design for new features, in collaboration with our AI team

  • Building out our design language and style guide in collaboration with our sales and market research team

  • Simplifying and beautifying existing features/interfaces

  • Designing and producing digital and print assets


About the Team

We are a public benefit corporation headquartered in Bangalore. We operate in rapidly changing legal systems with awareness of the stakes at hand. Our intention is to influence beneficence and alignment into the technological systems that are augmenting and replacing human institutions. Our team spans diverse identity and training, from physics and mathematics to law and public policy. We are small, fast-moving, horizontally flat, and built on collaboration between lawyers, academics, and engineers. We ship fast, and every line of code our team writes has a >0.9 expectation of making it to production.


Role details & miscellany

  • As full-time as they come. This is a demanding role that is only suited for you if you want to work founder-like hours in exchange for founder-like upsides.
  • Total comp will be above market rates and include stock options. Compensation will be commensurate to your experience, your theses, and our mutual excitement. For context, some approximate ranges with experience as an imperfect proxy for ability:
  • 3-5y: INR 14-25 LPA
  • 5y+: INR 25-35 LPA
  • Start ASAP with an initial trial of ~2 months, variable by candidate. If you are looking to leave a current role, email us if this is of concern.
  • Remote/Location: Must be based in Bengaluru or willing to relocate. At least 80% of your hours must be in-office, some remote is fine.
  • Come as you are: We are a diverse team, and we welcome diverse individuals in terms of identity, education, field, and experience.

Apply using this form

*Complete our abbreviated application (10 min). Promising candidates will be invited to an interview. All candidates will receive a reply by email, please do not email us separately.