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About Chronicle: Cursor for Slides

Chronicle is the modern format of presentations - like having the world’s best designers and storytellers bring your ideas to life. We’re backed by Accel and SquarePeg ($7.5M seed). We launched to a waitlist of **100,000+ users** and onboarded 6,000+ teams, hit **#1 Product of the Month** on Product Hunt, with hundreds of Chronicle decks being shared every day and 85% of the users saying they would be disappointed if Chronicle didn’t exist. They call us the “Cursor for Slides” - we’re building the world’s first AI-native presentation that is already loved by founders, agencies, and global teams.

Experience it for yourself → Try Chronicle.

You can also view a sample deck here on desktop: Intro to Chronicle.

About the Role

The Design Engineer role operates at the intersection of engineering and design to deliver an extremely high quality presentation experience to the world. In this role you will be working on the core product and will take end to end responsibility to ship key features that will be used by all of our users.

Core responsibilities of this role →

1. Lead end to end feature delivery from start to finish, ensuring high quality and attention to detail
2. Own the delivery of end-to-end experience, considering design, functional, interaction and performance
3. Collaborate closely with product and engineering to align on requirements, design direction and scope
4. Deep dive on design problems, consider broader impacts define and implement solutions that align with architectural standards

In addition to these core responsibilities, as one of the first engineer hires, you will contribute to the learning, development and culture building of the company

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This is a remote, full-time role. Our team is spread across the US, India, and Australia.

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Must Haves

• Possess 6+ years of UI development experience, ideally having contributed to a product's growth from inception to scale
• Proficient in the React stack, and able to build reusable components from scratch when provided with layouts and designs in Figma
• Proficient in all facets of CSS (with experience in TailwindCSS). Keen understanding of when to utilize CSS over JavaScript for efficient design solutions
• Ability to design and effectively implement application architecture solutions, including a solid understanding of state management (ie. XState)
• First principles problem-solving - ability to understand problems deeply, come up with elegant, simple solutions and take end-to-end ownership to bring these to life

Great to Have

• At least 1-2 years in a renowned software company - especially early in the career
• Have experience in building complex creation tools
• Made any open source contributions to frontend tools
• A designer or have design experience

Why Join Us

Everything starts with a story. We are reimagining how the world tells their’s - and we want you to shape that future with us. We are passionate to help anyone deliver presentations that are not just bearable, but enjoyable.

• Work on a category-defining product in a $100B+ market
• We are a design led company with an appreciation of great product taste. Think of it as joining the next Notion, Figma or Linear. We offer an opportunity to build the next big productivity tool with some of the smartest people in the space
• We enable ownership. From day 1 of your time at Chronicle you will have the opportunity to own, lead and contribute to the company in more ways than just your core role (more on this below)
• We work flexibly and do not believe in driving work through forced accountability. We try to hire only the best and give them the flexibility and space to do their life’s best work at Chronicle
• Chronicle is in a powerful position with plenty of runway required to build a world class product. We’re backed by some of the best and most respected investors in the world - Accel and SquarePeg. We are fortunate to have the right people on this journey with us who understand that this is a long-term bet

Hiring Process

We’re looking for ambitious builders who want to shape Chronicle’s future. Here’s how we approach hiring:

• ☕ Intro chat with Tejas (co-founder): A conversation about your journey, key contributions, and ambitions
• 📝 Take-home assignment + Loom video: An opportunity to show how you think and build. You’ll walk us through your solution in a short Loom. Your work and approach matter most
• 💻 Technical interview: A deep dive into your engineering craft, problem-solving, and collaboration style
• 🎨 Taste chat with Mayuresh (co-founder): A discussion about your product sense and design taste
• 🎉 Offer: If it’s a fit, we’ll move quickly to bring you on board

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