Senior Design Engineer

Your main goal

Your main goal will be to elevate our organization's product quality and consistency by ensuring design excellence across all features while building and scaling a world-class design system that bridges design with technical implementation.

Responsibilities

Design System Development & Governance

• Lead the rollout and evolution of our design system, including creating and maintaining components in Vue.js.
• Establish governance policies for the design system and ensure its consistent adoption across the product.
• Work closely with product designers and front-end engineers to refine and implement reusable components.

Feature Design Quality & Refinement

• Review and refine features before release, ensuring they meet our high-quality standards for user experience.
• Make visual adjustments and improvements to features in alignment with design system standards.
• Collaborate with front-end engineers to optimize performance and ensure technical feasibility.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner closely with product designers to ensure the design system supports their needs while maintaining consistency.
• Collaborate with front-end engineers to implement components and improve the developer experience.
• Regularly align with product management to ensure feature priorities and design standards are met.

Must-haves

• Design excellence: You have a strong portfolio demonstrating exceptional visual design skills, attention to detail, and the ability to create polished interfaces.
• Technical implementation: You have proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and TypeScript, with hands-on experience building production-ready components.
• Design systems experience: You have a proven track record of contributing to or maintaining design systems, including component creation, documentation, and governance.
• Collaborative mindset: You possess excellent communication skills, enabling you to work effectively across design and engineering teams, advocating for quality while balancing technical constraints.

Nice-to-haves

• Vue.js expertise: Existing experience with the Vue.js ecosystem and best practices would accelerate your impact.
• Animation & interaction: Skills in creating micro-interactions, transitions, and animations that enhance user experience.
• Open-source contribution: Experience contributing to or maintaining open-source projects, understanding community dynamics and feedback loops.
• Performance Optimization: Knowledge of front-end performance best practices and optimization techniques.
• Accessibility Standards: Experience implementing accessibility standards (WCAG) and creating inclusive design experiences.
• Workflow automation domain: Familiarity with workflow automation, iPaaS, or business process automation tools.
• Remote collaboration: Proven success working in distributed teams across time zones.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation – We offer fair and attractive pay.
• Ownership – Our core value is to “empower others,” and we mean it—you’ll get a slice of our organization with equity.
• Work/life balance – We work hard but ensure you have time to recharge:
• Europe: 30 days of vacation, plus public holidays wherever you are.
• US: 15 vacation days, 8 sick days, plus public holidays wherever you are.
• Health & wellness –
• Europe: We provide benefits according to local country norms.*
• US: Comprehensive medical (PPO 1200), dental, and vision plans.
• Future planning –
• Europe: We provide pension contributions according to local country norms.*
• US: 401(k) retirement plan.
• Financial security –
• Europe: We provide benefits according to local country norms.*
• US: Short-term & long-term disability insurance, life & AD&D coverage, and additional hospital coverage.
• Career growth – We hire rising stars who grow with us! You’ll get €1K (or equivalent) per year to spend on courses, books, events, or coaching to level up your skills.
• A passionate team – We love our product, and we prove it with regular hackathons where we see who can build the coolest thing with it!
• Remote-first – Our team works remotely across Europe, with regular off-sites for team bonding. Some roles, like sales in the US, are hybrid—please check the job description.
• Giving back – We're big fans of open source, and you'll get $100 per month to support projects you care about.
• AI enablement – We believe in working smarter—everyone gets an unlimited AI budget to explore and use the best tools to boost productivity and creativity.
• Transparency – We all know what everyone’s working on, how the company is doing—the whole shebang.
• An ambitious but kind culture – People love working here—our eNPS for 2024 is 94!
• Country-specific details are provided in your contract.