Full-Time

Design Engineer

Posted on 10/31/2025

Anything

Anything

51-200 employees

AI-powered no-code platform for production apps

Compensation Overview

$125k - $250k/yr

San Francisco, CA, USA

In Person

Category
Software Engineering (1)
Required Skills
JavaScript
React.js
Git
TypeScript
React Native
HTML/CSS
Requirements
  • Strong frontend or product engineer (typically 4-6+ years)
  • Deep in TypeScript and modern web/mobile frameworks (React, Next, React Native, Expo, Web Assembly)
  • At least one of: + Done impactful work at a company known for its frontend and design + Major contributions to a notable open source project + Seriously impressive portfolio
  • Deep understanding of the Document Object Model and the browser
  • Ship performant, pixel-perfect components
  • Blend excellent engineering with taste in models, design, and product
  • Comfortable working with and without a designer
  • Never compromise quality and speed - you both sweat the details and ship fast
Responsibilities
  • Design and ship how to interact with agent reasoning timeline, visual diffs, app previews
  • Make logs and arbitrary code logic understandable to non technical users
  • Multiplayer realtime collab across users and agents on an infinite canvas
  • Ship intuitive experience for swarms of autonomous software engineers building 100s of app variations w/ intelligent merging of the best results
Desired Qualifications
  • Prior experience as a founder or founding engineer
  • Strong production experience with large language models
  • Prior experience as a designer
  • In all roles: Intense. Ship fast. Cycles are hours, not weeks. Hard to outwork.
  • In all roles: Ownership. Grab the #1 priority and relentless to deliver.
  • In all roles: Fearlessness. Risk on. Do the unknown / uncomfortable. Say 'good' to bad news.
  • In all roles: Taste. First pass lands close to final. Synthesize feedback fast. Obsess over feel.
  • In all roles: Play. Curiosity, joy, and energy show up in your work.

Anything (CreateAnything) is an AI-powered app builder that converts plain-language prompts into production-ready mobile apps, websites and tools without hand-coding. It stacks large language models over a visual builder, integrations marketplace and deployment pipeline so product teams and solo creators can prototype, ship and iterate faster. The platform offers hosted projects, account tiers, team collaboration, custom domains, payments and native mobile packaging. It differentiates itself by combining prompt-based development with a full deployment automation workflow and an emphasis on prompt design, component libraries and extensible integrations for real-world workflows. Anything’s goal is to accelerate app delivery for professional teams by taking a user’s natural-language request and turning it into a deployable product, from prototype to production.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Series A

Total Funding

$19.5M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2021

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Footwork led $11M Series A at $100M valuation citing Canva-like retention.
  • Automatic error detection and refactoring scales projects reliably.
  • iPhone app enables on-the-go previews and project management.

What critics are saying

  • 80% revenue collapsed in March 2026 from iOS feature gaps and bugs.
  • Replit erodes value with superior prompt-to-app speed in 3-6 months.
  • Apple rejects AI-generated apps, blocking iOS launches in 6-12 months.

What makes Anything unique

  • Anything generates full-stack React/Tailwind apps with auth and databases in under 2 minutes.
  • Supports 100+ integrations like Stripe and Google Maps via slash commands.
  • AI agent automates native iOS/Android generation and App Store submission.

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Benefits

Remote Work Options

Flexible Work Hours

Company News

Dataconomy
Sep 30th, 2025
Anything raises $11M for AI app building platform

On Monday, Anything announced it has raised an $11 million financing round at a $100 million valuation.

Silicon Valley Journals
Sep 26th, 2025
Anything raises $11M in Series A

Anything, an AI platform for creating mobile and web apps from natural language prompts, has secured $11M in Series A funding at a $100M valuation. The round was led by Footwork, with M13 participating. Previous investors include Bessemer Venture Partners and Uncork Capital. The platform addresses retention issues in AI coding tools by enabling users to launch, monetize, and scale apps, showing strong user retention similar to early Canva, according to Footwork's Nikhil Basu Trivedi.

Tech Funding News
Aug 14th, 2025
Anything’s viral debut pushes Create to $8.5M raise led by Bessemer — TFN

Tools promising to “let anyone build an app” often stop at a flashy prototype, producing browser‑only projects that require further development before

FinSMEs
Aug 14th, 2025
Create Raises $8.5M in Funding

Create, a San Francisco, CA-based AI agentic startup, raised $8.5m in funding.

PYMNTS
Aug 14th, 2025
Create Raises $8.5M for App-Building AI

AI startup Create has raised $8.5 million in a Series A round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Shopify founder Tobi Lütke. The funding will scale its AI coding agent, Anything, which builds mobile and web apps for app stores. Following its public debut, Anything gained 30,000 new users, reaching 500,000 total, and tripled paid subscriptions. The tool targets both developers and non-technical users, offering one-click app store submissions and web app deployment.

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