Senior Design Engineer | Deel

The role

You will build a system that allows AI to build products by architecting design systems, tokens, and components. You will split your time between Figma and a code editor to design real interfaces and prototype in production front-end code.

What you will do

• Architect the design system, tokens and components
• Design prompt libraries, patterns and agent workflows
• Stay a practising designer and design real interfaces
• Prototype in production front-end code
• Define production-readiness criteria for AI-generated UI
• Set design-to-code fidelity benchmarks and evaluation methods
• Work with design leadership to roll out the AI-native workflow
• Collaborate with Engineering, Product and design-system contributors
• Prototype and evaluate adaptive, AI-generated interfaces
• Turn what works into playbooks, prompt libraries and enablement

Required qualifications

• Move fluidly between design and code
• Real taste for layout, typography, interaction and motion
• Comfortable writing TypeScript and React, including HTML, CSS and animation
• Built or extended design systems that others rely on
• Use AI design and coding tools in real work
• 7+ years in product design and front-end engineering on complex products
• Comfortable with ambiguity

Benefits

• Stock grant opportunities, depending on your role, employment status and location
• Additional perks and benefits based on your employment status and country
• Optional flexible working office membership with IWG

About the company

Deel is the all-in-one payroll and HR platform for global teams. It supports every worker type in 150+ countries.