About the role
Design Engineer
TL;DR: We’re looking for a Design Engineer to own the entire fidelity of the user experience—blending deep aesthetic sensibility with technical execution. You will autonomously design, build, and ship our product’s user interface, setting the standard for polish, performance, and accessibility across our AI-powered platform .
About Settled Technologies
Settled Technologies is building the Agentic Operating System for Dispute Resolution. Our platform combines AI and automation to help industries and governments resolve complex disputes faster, more fairly, and at scale.
Our first product is focused on the travel industry, helping passengers navigate compensation for flight disruptions with a simple, guided process. Backed by top-tier investors and led by experienced founders, we're on a mission to make resolution accessible, efficient, and just.
What You’ll Be Doing (Own the Outcome)
You will be embedded in the product process from idea to deployment, working in partnership with the CTO and early design contributors to define and execute on the product’s craft:
- Design AI-Native Workflows: This is a core focus. You will be responsible for defining and implementing the user experience for integrating AI tools (like OpenAI ChatKit) directly into our case management and customer-facing flows. This requires designing interfaces that leverage AI only when it genuinely improves usability, efficiency, accuracy, and accessibility, rather than just "ticking a box."
- Elevate User Fidelity: You are responsible for the final mile of polish. You will push designs past the sketch phase, implementing delightful micro-interactions, complex animations, and high-fidelity interfaces that turn complex legal processes into simple, intuitive, and guided workflows.
- Architect for Craft and Performance: Lead the selection and implementation of our core frontend architecture (transitioning to React/Tailwind), ensuring the system is scalable, modern, and built for exceptional performance, high page speed, and zero dropped frames.
- Broad Front-End Scope: The role covers all user-facing systems: from the consumer-facing web portal and website to the internal enterprise case management system and hybrid AI/Widget-based interfaces.
- Autonomous Design-in-Code: Act as the user's advocate by independently prototyping and iterating on user pain points directly in code. You won't just implement specs; you'll challenge and evolve the design by leveraging the technical possibilities of the web.
- Champion Accessibility and Inclusivity: Ensure every feature is inclusive and accessible, paying meticulous attention to inclusive input modes, cross-browser compatibility, and adherence to user preferences.
- Full-Stack Feature Ownership: Take accountability for shipping features end-to-end, with a primary focus on the frontend, but contributing to the Laravel/Python backend when necessary to realize the full product vision.
Who We're Looking For
- Owner's Mentality & Startup Drive: This is an early-stage role in a funded startup led by multi-time founders. You must thrive in an autonomous, high-growth environment, thinking like an owner, understanding the broader business objectives, and constantly looking to expand and invent product capabilities, not just execute tasks.
- Aesthetic & Technical Fluency: You have 4+ years of experience blending UI/UX design sensibility with deep technical frontend engineering. You obsess over the details that define exceptional user experiences.
- Mastery of the Modern Stack: Expert command of JavaScript/TypeScript, CSS, and component-based frameworks ( React preferred). You have proven experience building and shipping production-ready interfaces using utility-first CSS like Tailwind .
- Experience with AI-Integration UX: You have experience, or a strong desire to master, integrating sophisticated models and tools (e.g., chat widgets, agent flows) into structured, professional workflows.
- Performance Obsession: You have practical experience debugging browser performance, optimizing component rendering, and implementing techniques to achieve smooth 60fps interactions and transitions.
- Prototyping & Collaboration: You are comfortable working in design tools (like Figma) but prefer to explore and finalize complex interactions and logic directly in code. You are accustomed to a tight feedback loop with designers and product managers.
- Mobile-First Mindset: You possess strong experience with responsive design and are prepared to help lay the foundational technical and design patterns for a future mobile application (React Native interest is a plus).
Our Stack
- Frontend: React / Tailwind
- Backend: Laravel / Python
- AI: Model-Agnostic (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini), OpenAI AgentKit, OpenAI ChatKit (including widget systems) , LangGraph
- Infrastructure: Cloudflare, Laravel Cloud, Postgres
- Primary Dev Tools: Cursor, Replit, V0
Why Join Settled Technologies?
- Define the Company Trajectory: Join a funded, early-stage startup as a founding engineer and take ownership of the technical and product roadmap alongside the founding team.
- Own the AI-UX Frontier: Define how complex AI capabilities are translated into simple, accessible, and high-performance user experiences for both consumer and enterprise users.
- Own the Craft: Take foundational ownership of the product's quality, defining the visual and interactive standard that sets the tone for our entire platform.
- Impact Through Autonomy: Lead the charge on features that would often be deprioritized in larger organizations, focusing resources on polished interactions and delightful details.
- Real-World Justice: Work on technology that directly improves how disputes are resolved, making justice more accessible and efficient for people around the world.
- Location & Flexibility: This is a Toronto-based hybrid role , with the expectation of being in the office two days a week for critical collaboration and product sessions.
Settled Technologies is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We encourage applications from all qualified individuals regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
About the role
Design Engineer
TL;DR: We’re looking for a Design Engineer to own the entire fidelity of the user experience—blending deep aesthetic sensibility with technical execution. You will autonomously design, build, and ship our product’s user interface, setting the standard for polish, performance, and accessibility across our AI-powered platform .
About Settled Technologies
Settled Technologies is building the Agentic Operating System for Dispute Resolution. Our platform combines AI and automation to help industries and governments resolve complex disputes faster, more fairly, and at scale.
Our first product is focused on the travel industry, helping passengers navigate compensation for flight disruptions with a simple, guided process. Backed by top-tier investors and led by experienced founders, we're on a mission to make resolution accessible, efficient, and just.
What You’ll Be Doing (Own the Outcome)
You will be embedded in the product process from idea to deployment, working in partnership with the CTO and early design contributors to define and execute on the product’s craft:
- Design AI-Native Workflows: This is a core focus. You will be responsible for defining and implementing the user experience for integrating AI tools (like OpenAI ChatKit) directly into our case management and customer-facing flows. This requires designing interfaces that leverage AI only when it genuinely improves usability, efficiency, accuracy, and accessibility, rather than just "ticking a box."
- Elevate User Fidelity: You are responsible for the final mile of polish. You will push designs past the sketch phase, implementing delightful micro-interactions, complex animations, and high-fidelity interfaces that turn complex legal processes into simple, intuitive, and guided workflows.
- Architect for Craft and Performance: Lead the selection and implementation of our core frontend architecture (transitioning to React/Tailwind), ensuring the system is scalable, modern, and built for exceptional performance, high page speed, and zero dropped frames.
- Broad Front-End Scope: The role covers all user-facing systems: from the consumer-facing web portal and website to the internal enterprise case management system and hybrid AI/Widget-based interfaces.
- Autonomous Design-in-Code: Act as the user's advocate by independently prototyping and iterating on user pain points directly in code. You won't just implement specs; you'll challenge and evolve the design by leveraging the technical possibilities of the web.
- Champion Accessibility and Inclusivity: Ensure every feature is inclusive and accessible, paying meticulous attention to inclusive input modes, cross-browser compatibility, and adherence to user preferences.
- Full-Stack Feature Ownership: Take accountability for shipping features end-to-end, with a primary focus on the frontend, but contributing to the Laravel/Python backend when necessary to realize the full product vision.
Who We're Looking For
- Owner's Mentality & Startup Drive: This is an early-stage role in a funded startup led by multi-time founders. You must thrive in an autonomous, high-growth environment, thinking like an owner, understanding the broader business objectives, and constantly looking to expand and invent product capabilities, not just execute tasks.
- Aesthetic & Technical Fluency: You have 4+ years of experience blending UI/UX design sensibility with deep technical frontend engineering. You obsess over the details that define exceptional user experiences.
- Mastery of the Modern Stack: Expert command of JavaScript/TypeScript, CSS, and component-based frameworks ( React preferred). You have proven experience building and shipping production-ready interfaces using utility-first CSS like Tailwind .
- Experience with AI-Integration UX: You have experience, or a strong desire to master, integrating sophisticated models and tools (e.g., chat widgets, agent flows) into structured, professional workflows.
- Performance Obsession: You have practical experience debugging browser performance, optimizing component rendering, and implementing techniques to achieve smooth 60fps interactions and transitions.
- Prototyping & Collaboration: You are comfortable working in design tools (like Figma) but prefer to explore and finalize complex interactions and logic directly in code. You are accustomed to a tight feedback loop with designers and product managers.
- Mobile-First Mindset: You possess strong experience with responsive design and are prepared to help lay the foundational technical and design patterns for a future mobile application (React Native interest is a plus).
Our Stack
- Frontend: React / Tailwind
- Backend: Laravel / Python
- AI: Model-Agnostic (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini), OpenAI AgentKit, OpenAI ChatKit (including widget systems) , LangGraph
- Infrastructure: Cloudflare, Laravel Cloud, Postgres
- Primary Dev Tools: Cursor, Replit, V0
Why Join Settled Technologies?
- Define the Company Trajectory: Join a funded, early-stage startup as a founding engineer and take ownership of the technical and product roadmap alongside the founding team.
- Own the AI-UX Frontier: Define how complex AI capabilities are translated into simple, accessible, and high-performance user experiences for both consumer and enterprise users.
- Own the Craft: Take foundational ownership of the product's quality, defining the visual and interactive standard that sets the tone for our entire platform.
- Impact Through Autonomy: Lead the charge on features that would often be deprioritized in larger organizations, focusing resources on polished interactions and delightful details.
- Real-World Justice: Work on technology that directly improves how disputes are resolved, making justice more accessible and efficient for people around the world.
- Location & Flexibility: This is a Toronto-based hybrid role , with the expectation of being in the office two days a week for critical collaboration and product sessions.
Settled Technologies is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We encourage applications from all qualified individuals regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.