Senior Design Engineer

The Role

This is an individual contributor role. Nobody reports to you. You sit in the TECH team, which builds and ships changes to our store and landing pages every week.

The Product Designer decides what a page is for and how it should feel. The creative lead owns the brand rules. Within those, the layout, visual and build decisions for new sections and formats are yours. A Lead Software Engineer owns the architecture and reviews your code with the other engineers. Engineers own checkout logic, data and release. If two teams want different things, the CTO settles it.

We want any team to be able to put an idea live without a developer. We are not fully there yet. The section kit you build is how we get there.

Reporting line: Direct to the CTO.

The title means little. If your CV says Design Engineer, Creative Developer, Front-end Designer, Web Designer or UI Engineer, and you design and build pages that go live, apply.

What Will You Do?

• Design and build new formats. Turn a hypothesis or a Product Designer brief into a new landing page, store section or offer format, in Figma and in code. Try formats nobody has tried.
• Own the section kit. Build and keep up the library of sections in Figma and in code. Every winning pattern becomes a section that anyone can reuse.
• Ship variants fast. Get test variants live in days, behind a flag and on part of the traffic, so a losing variant never hurts the store.
• Set the bar. Define how design becomes code: tokens, components, responsive rules and review standards. Review and coach the junior Design Engineer.
• Design and build accessibly. Meet WCAG 2.1 AA in design and in code: semantic HTML, contrast, focus states, keyboard use, labels and alt text. Accessibility is part of done.
• Ship with AI. Use AI to generate layouts, code and asset variations. Read what it gives you and fix it before review. Keep customer data out of unapproved tools.

Our Stack

• Figma, HTML, CSS, Tailwind, React and Next.js on Vercel, our in-house tools for AI-generated landing pages, PostHog, GitHub and Linear.
• Our AI tooling includes Claude, Codex and Figma AI.
• You do not need to know every tool. A strong eye, clean front-end code and the ability to learn matter more than matching the list.

Skills & Qualifications

At least five years designing and building for the web, with live work you designed and coded yourself.

Essential

• Agency or high-performance team experience. You have shipped in a digital agency, an ecommerce studio or a fast product team, with real deadlines.
• Strong layout, typography and visual hierarchy. Your portfolio shows taste.
• Ecommerce or marketing pages. You have designed and shipped landing pages, store pages or campaign pages that moved a number.
• Production front-end code. Semantic HTML, modern CSS and React in production.
• A design system or section kit you built and kept up, in Figma and in code.
• Figma at a high level, with components, variables, auto layout and variants.
• Accessibility in design and code. You know WCAG 2.1 AA and can explain how you test it.
• Git and code review. You open clean pull requests and review other people's code.
• A working AI practice for design and code. Walk us through a recent example, including what the AI got wrong and what you fixed.
• English at B2/C1 minimum.
• Four hours of overlap with the team's EU working day.