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Parahelp
Build an AI support agent that can use all your tools
Founding Design Engineer
$180K - $220K
•
0.20% - 0.40%
•
San Francisco, CA, US
Job type
Full-time
Role
Engineering, Frontend
Experience
3+ years
Visa
Will sponsor
Skills
React, TypeScript, Next.js, Tailwind
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Mads Liechti
Founder
About the role
TL;DR:
As a Founding Design Engineer at Parahelp, you’ll work at the intersection of design and frontend engineering to build intuitive user interfaces. You’ll understand customers, design in Figma, and ship production UI that helps companies like Perplexity, ElevenLabs, Photoroom, Replit, and Framer get the most value from Parahelp.
What you’ll do:
Design and iterate on UI in Figma.
Build reusable components and primitives, and own our design system to ensure consistency and scalability.
Build intuitive UI using TypeScript, React, NextJS, tRPC, Prisma, and Tailwind.
Work with product and backend engineers to integrate APIs and ship complete features with attention to detail.
You might be a fit if:
You are based in San Francisco and excited to work in person.
You have a strong portfolio or personal site that showcases your design and front-end work.
You have 2–5 years of experience in front-end development with TypeScript and React. You are familiar with NextJS, tRPC, Prisma, Tailwind, and TanStack Query.
You love design, care about the details, and want to own the craft.
You’re already using AI tools in your day-to-day to build, design, or prototype.
You’re excited about moving fast.
Bonus: You’ve been a founder before or have comparable zero-to-one experience.
About the interview
First round (30 minutes)
Coffee chat (1 hour)
Design + front-end challenge (1 hour)
Final onsite (3 hours)
About Parahelp
Parahelp makes it easy to build an AI support agent that resolves even your most complex tickets end-to-end. If a tool has an API, you can connect it to your agent - just by chatting with Parahelp. For example, you can connect Stripe so your agent can resolve billing questions and refund requests.
We're building Parahelp because we believe context—not intelligence—is the primary bottleneck for AI agents automating high-impact work.
Our mission: Our mission is to make customer support delightful.
Our current focus: Currently, we're focused on building a platform that makes it easy for companies to build AI support agents that resolve their most complex support tickets end-to-end.
Our momentum:
Launched in August 2024.
Working with leading software companies like Cursor, Replit, and Lovable.
Backed by Y Combinator, Paul Graham, Perplexity Fund, Hidden Capital, and founders of Replit, Framer, Calm, ElevenLabs, Runway, Speak, Zendesk, etc.
Parahelp
Founded:
2024
Batch:
S24
Team Size:
11
Status:
Active
Location:
San Francisco
Founders
Mads Liechti
Founder
Anker Ryhl
Founder
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