Design engineer (UK)
Remote • London, UK • FullTime
Posted 20h ago
Remote Work Policy
Fully remote
Employment Type
FullTime
Categories
Applied AI Engineer
About the job
WRITER is a company that empowers enterprises to orchestrate AI-powered work, aiming to expand human capacity through superintelligence. Their platform enables companies to build and deploy AI agents grounded in their data and powered by enterprise-grade LLMs. Founded in 2020, WRITER is a rapidly growing leader in enterprise generative AI, backed by prominent investors and with offices in major tech hubs.
Responsibilities
- Own and maintain the Writer Design System (WDS), optimizing it for both human and AI agent use.
- Design and build production-quality UI components and features, managing them from initial concept to completion.
- Ship design-led enhancements, such as polish passes and micro-interactions, to improve the product's user experience.
- Architect new primitives and extend core system components, influencing technical direction and ensuring documentation and libraries are up-to-date.
- Maintain high standards for front-end development, focusing on accessibility, motion, consistency, and overall quality.
- Contribute to the design-to-code workflow by researching and implementing tools and practices to boost productivity.
- Collaborate with designers, PMs, and engineering leads to track WDS adoption and ensure feature compliance with design system standards.
Requirements
- 4-8+ years of experience building production frontends using TypeScript and React, with a history of owning systems or platforms end-to-end.
- Strong understanding of animation principles, including easing curves, choreography, and perceived performance.
- Expert proficiency in Figma, including auto-layout, variants, variables, and code connect.
- Proficiency with design engineering technologies such as framer-motion, gsap, and lottie for web animation.
- A portfolio or demonstrable work showcasing systems-level contributions.
- Experience driving the adoption of a design system or shared platform across an engineering organization.
- Familiarity with AI product surfaces like tool-call UIs, streaming responses, agent state, and dynamic UI rendering.
- Ability to navigate ambiguous, cross-team problems with sound judgment.
Benefits
- Generous PTO and company holidays
- Comprehensive medical and dental insurance
- 16 weeks paid parental leave
- Fertility and family planning support
- Early-detection cancer testing
- Competitive pension scheme with company contribution
- Annual work-life stipends for wellness and learning/development
- Company-wide and team off-sites
- Competitive compensation and company stock options