Design Engineer

Posted 15hrs ago

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Design Engineer crafting polished React/TypeScript product and marketing experiences for Trigger.dev’s open-source AI agent platform. Building design systems, accessible UI, and production features.

Responsibilities:

  • Design and build polished UI across the web app and marketing site
  • Collaborate with engineering to build new features with strong UX and design craft
  • Own design decisions from rough concept through shipped production code
  • Build and evolve the design system and component library
  • Improve accessibility, responsiveness, and interaction polish across existing product surfaces
  • Prototype ideas quickly in code and static mockups
  • Promote stronger design and UX practices across the engineering team
  • Help customers, review pull requests, and create issues in the open-source community
  • Keep documentation up to date
  • Contribute to product-led growth content, including code examples, blog articles, videos, and tweets

Requirements:

  • Strong portfolio showing design quality and ability to ship production UI
  • Expertise in modern frontend engineering, specifically React and TypeScript
  • Experience with Remix
  • Sharp eye for visual and interaction detail, including typography, spacing, and motion
  • Ability to work directly from a problem statement and drive design decisions independently
  • Remote candidates must be within CET to ET timezones (GMT+1:00 to GMT-5:00)
  • Experience owning design end-to-end at a small startup
  • Experience at a developer tools company or strong empathy for developers as end users
  • Experience building or evolving a design system or component library
  • Track record of shipping quickly and iterating in public
  • UK-based candidates able to join the team in London
  • Open source contributions
  • Venture-backed startup founder experience
  • Social media presence

Benefits:

  • Generous, transparent compensation and equity
  • Async working
  • Home office equipment support
  • 25 days vacation excluding national holidays
  • Sick leave
  • Generous parental leave
  • Annual training budget for books, Audible subscription, or online courses
  • Company pension scheme or contributions to a private pension
  • 401k contributions
  • In-person team events throughout the year