Design Engineer

We're hiring a Design Engineer to sit across our design and engineering teams. This person will build, own, and maintain our design system — working across Figma and React to design and ship design at a production standard. We're excited about this role — you'll be working directly with the Heads and Directors of Design and Technology to shape it from the ground up. The role is biased toward design. You should have strong design sensibility — you care deeply about typography, spacing, interaction quality, and the details that compound into how a product feels. You also need to be able to build what you design in production-quality React. We are not looking for a design system designer without engineering experience. We are not looking for an engineer without design experience. We are looking for someone with design system experience who can do both.

Responsibilities

Build, own, and maintain the design system as a coded React component library (Storybook, tokens, documentation); Design and build UI in both Figma and code — working in real-time collaboration with the design and engineering teams; Set up and manage a contribution process for the design system so other teams can adopt and extend it; Set up, document, and maintain components to a production standard; Work with the engineering team to implement the design system across products; Build and maintain roadmaps for rolling the design system into the production application; Produce tooling for validating designs in the pipeline — ensuring what's built matches what's designed; Prototype ideas quickly in code so the team can validate directions before committing engineering resource; Ensure consistency and quality across products by establishing and enforcing component standards; Contribute to design reviews, evaluating work against the system and the platform; Use AI tools as part of your workflow — to accelerate prototyping, explore variations, and augment your output without replacing craft

Requirements

Figma; React; TypeScript; Storybook; Design Systems; Design Tokens; Accessibility; A portfolio or personal site is required; Strong design skills — layout, typography, colour, interaction design, motion; Comfortable leading design decisions in Figma and defending them; Production-level React and TypeScript — you write clean, maintainable component code, not just prototypes; Proven design system experience — you've built, contributed to, or maintained a system at component-library level (Storybook, design tokens, documentation); An understanding of accessibility, cross-browser consistency, and performance as non-negotiable parts of quality; Proactive — you spot inconsistencies, flag them, and fix them without being asked; Comfortable operating across two teams — you're not waiting for briefs, you're embedded in the work and shaping it