Design engineer (UK)

The role

You will own the Writer Design System, ensuring it is optimized for both humans and AI agents. You will design and build production-quality UI components and help shape the design-to-code workflow.

What you will do

• Own the Writer Design System to ensure it is optimized for humans and AI agents
• Design and build production-quality UI components and features
• Ship design-led work including polish passes, micro-interactions, and brand moments
• Architect new primitives and extend the system's core components
• Keep documentation, examples, and libraries in sync across Figma, .md skills, and Storybook
• Uphold front-end craft standards for accessibility, motion feel, consistency, and quality
• Research tools and practices to improve design-to-code workflows
• Partner with designers, PMs, and engineering leads to measure WDS adoption

Required qualifications

• 4–8+ years building production frontends with TypeScript and React
• Track record of owning a system, platform, or surface end-to-end
• Solid instincts for animation principles
• Expert level fluency in Figma including auto-layout, variants, variables, and code connect
• Proficiency with design engineering technologies like framer-motion, gsap, and lottie
• Portfolio, side projects, GitHub, or production work including systems-level work
• Experience driving adoption of a design system or shared platform across an engineering org
• Experience with AI product surfaces including tool-call UIs, streaming responses, agent state, and dynamic UI rendering
• Commitment to WRITER's values of Connect, Challenge, and Own

Benefits

• Generous PTO, plus company holidays
• Comprehensive medical and dental insurance
• Paid parental leave for all parents (16 weeks)
• Fertility and family planning support
• Early-detection cancer testing through Galleri
• Competitive pension scheme and company contribution
• Annual wellness stipend for gym, massage/chiropractor, personal training, etc.
• Annual learning and development stipend
• Company-wide off-sites and team off-sites
• Competitive compensation and company stock options

About the company

WRITER is the AI platform built for the world’s most ambitious marketing and revenue teams. Founded in 2020, it is backed by investors including Insight Partners, Salesforce Ventures, and Adobe Ventures.