Senior Design Engineer

Description

The company is a job platform, and this design team sits within its product design organisation. The team has more than 30 designers, spanning design operations, design systems, design foundation and design engineering roles, plus a user research team of more than 10 people.

Designers hold senior leadership positions in the team, so strategic initiatives across the business get championed.

The team works on both the consumer side (B2C) and the business side (B2B), covering the full experience for job seekers and recruiters.

Responsibilities

• Design Engineering is new within the design organisation, and you will help define what it becomes. You will work in a multidisciplinary design systems team with design system and design engineering specialists, engineers and a product manager.
• This is a senior individual contributor role. The design system is core infrastructure for how the company delivers its job search and recruitment experience at high quality.
• Design and build robust, scalable and accessible components and patterns, with clear visual logic, thoughtful interaction states and high craft.
• Evolve tokens, components and patterns with front-end engineers. Decide when components should change, merge or be retired, and make those changes carefully.
• Write and maintain documentation. Drive adoption across the organisation by supporting teams, advising on accessibility, and keeping libraries and processes useful to them.
• Improve the design-to-code workflow and raise the bar for shipped UI. Make Figma and production match more closely to cut handoff gaps and rework, using design QA, accessibility and performance standards.
• Build and grow the AI-assisted prototyping setup, covering repositories, hosting, naming, discoverability and access, so teams can make coded, data-connected prototypes and test ideas faster. Apply AI to design system work and help designers build confidence with AI tools.

Requirements

• A proven record of shipping high-quality components and patterns, with strong attention to interaction, visual design, motion, accessibility and documentation. Design comes first in this role.
• Broad design knowledge and deep skill in at least one of component engineering, design tokens and infrastructure, or prototyping. You are comfortable working in code alongside front-end engineers.
• You actively use AI in design system and prototyping work and help others do the same.
• Deep knowledge of accessibility standards and a commitment to building an inclusive, usable system.
• You balance consistency with flexibility as the system grows, build strong working relationships across design and engineering, and explain decisions clearly to both.

Conditions

Hybrid working, with 3 days a week in the office.

The company welcomes applications from everyone and encourages applicants from all backgrounds, regardless of gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, ethnicity, belief, age, or family or parental status.

Benefits

• 29 days of holiday plus bank holidays.
• Private medical and dental cover.
• Pension matched at 4 or 5%, rising to 10% after 3 years of service.
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme.
• Life assurance.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Volunteering days.
• Dogs allowed in the office on Mondays and Fridays.