Staff Design Engineer - UK

Requirements

  • Excellent visual design taste and execution skills in UI/UX.
  • Ability to both design and code, combining excellence in both disciplines.
  • Experience designing products and shipping code to hundreds of users.
  • Proficiency with TypeScript, React, and CSS at a minimum; backend proficiency is a plus.
  • Ability to work with minimal process and take ownership of projects end-to-end.
  • Strong collaboration and deliberate communication skills.
  • Ability to iterate quickly based on user feedback and ship fast.

Nice to Haves

  • Experience with major contributions to design systems.
  • Practiced a Design Engineering role professionally combining design and engineering.
  • Familiarity with backend technologies like Node.js, Postgres, and Redis.
  • Experience with AI-powered tools for software development or automation.

What You'll Be Doing

  • Designing and coding solutions that address challenging design problems.
  • Expanding and enhancing the in-house design system for consistent, composable components.
  • Consulting on bespoke design work with Product Engineers.
  • Working on a product at scale impacting over 100,000 weekly active users and major customers.
  • Collaborating in a high-ownership, low-process engineering culture.
  • Shipping product changes quickly and iterating with direct user feedback.
  • Contributing to tools and abstractions that increase engineering leverage without increasing team size.
  • Participating in an interview process that focuses on past projects, pair programming, and design collaboration.

Perks and Benefits

  • Competitive salary and equity with a 10-year exercise window for stock options.
  • Unlimited PTO with strong encouragement to take time off.
  • At least 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave, aligned with regional requirements.
  • Generous budget for equipment, software, and office furniture.
  • $100/month education budget and $250/month tool budget including access to AI tools.
  • Top-tier health insurance fully covered in the US; supplemental insurance elsewhere.
  • Remote-friendly with low meeting load and flexible work hours to support work-life balance.
  • Diverse and inclusive company culture with conscious efforts to improve representation and equitable opportunities.
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