Family Office is a small design studio operating from 401 Broadway in New York City. We're currently a team of five — Co-founders Diego Segura and Eliz Akgün, and designers Juan Pantoja, Laia Torrent Frugis, and Emma Buehrer.

Most recently, we rebranded one of the largest tights brands by volume in America called L'eggs, for example. We work on many types of clients and in a wide variety of styles.

Why is a design studio hiring an Backend Engineer?

We're building our own software ventures in-house.

Prior to starting Family Office, I (Diego) was a designer at COLLINS New York, then worked for adtech veteran Brian O'Kelley briefly before starting my first company which ended up creating a software product called Vellum. We had raised $4MM from excellent venture investors, built intriguing partnerships, but ultimately split with my co-founder and left to start my own design practice.

That's now Family Office.

But as many know, the agency business is not a great long-term business. So, we've been incubating our own ventures, most recently an event series that began on Tax Day 2024, and a lending product for freelancers and agencies.

We're now building another venture, a consumer iOS app, and are looking for an engineer to lead the way.

Ideally...

• You've built excellent, fast-loading applications and worked specifically on iOS/mobile apps.

• You're opinionated about tech stacks and prefer simplicity, elegance, and lightweight in choosing your technologies.

• You're fun to work with.

• You care about well designed apps.

• You'd like to be involved in a project that specifically aims to keep the equity among the founding team, raise little money, and stay as independent as possible.

Email me directly at diego@familyoffice.is — I respond to everyone no matter what, even if it's just to say thank you for applying. We'd love to get a sense of the mobile apps you've worked on, and challenges you've solved, specifically in terms of image-heavy feeds, caching, and load times.