Design Engineer

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Design and build high-quality, polished UI across the web app and marketing site
• ▹Work closely with the engineering team to build new features with design craft and great UX
• ▹Own design decisions end-to-end, from concept through shipped production code
• ▹Build and evolve the design system and component library
• ▹Improve accessibility, responsiveness and interaction polish across existing surfaces
• ▹Prototype new ideas quickly in code and static mockups
• ▹Help instill a stronger design/UX sensibility across the wider engineering team

Requirements

• ▹A strong portfolio showing both design quality and the ability to ship real production UI
• ▹Expertise in modern frontend engineering - React and TypeScript (Remix)
• ▹A sharp eye for visual and interaction detail: typography, spacing, motion
• ▹Comfort working directly from a problem statement rather than a fully-specced design
• ▹If remote, must be within CET to ET timezones (GMT+1:00 to GMT-5:00)

Nice to have

• ▹Experience owning design end-to-end at a small startup without a separate design team
• ▹Experience at a developer tools company, or strong empathy for developers as end users
• ▹Experience building or evolving a design system / component library
• ▹A track record of shipping fast and iterating in public
• ▹Based in the UK and able to join the London team in person
• ▹Contributions to open source projects
• ▹Previous experience as a venture-backed startup founder

Soft skills

About the company

Trigger.dev is an open source platform used by developers to build production-grade AI agents, with a managed cloud product that auto-scales from zero to millions of executions.