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Design engineer (UK)

WRITER· EPD
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Hybrid (London, UK)Full-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Design engineers own the Writer Design System (WDS), ensuring a complete, trustworthy UI library for humans and AI agents. You’ll work closely with designers, PMs, and engineers to shape surfaces, standards, and processes for shipping product within WRITER’s EPD organization.

Responsibilities

  • Own the Writer Design System (WDS) as your primary domain — agentify and maintain it, ensuring it's optimized for both humans and AI agents building with it
  • Design and build production-quality UI components and features, owning surfaces from sketch to ship
  • Ship design-led work that wouldn't survive an engineering backlog — polish passes, micro-interactions, and brand moments that make the product feel alive
  • Architect new primitives and extend the system's core components, shaping its technical direction while keeping documentation, examples, and libraries in sync across Figma, .md skills, and Storybook
  • Uphold the bar for front-end craft across accessibility, motion feel, consistency, and quality, ensuring accessibility is baked into every design system component
  • Help shape the design-to-code workflow, researching the latest tools and practices to unlock org-wide productivity and democratize workflows across the EPD organization
  • Partner with designers, PMs, and engineering leads to measure WDS adoption, close gaps, and make sure shipped features meet design system standards

Qualifications

  • 4–8+ years building production frontends with TypeScript and React, with a track record of owning a system, platform, or surface end-to-end rather than individual features
  • Solid instincts for animation principles including easing curves, choreography, anticipation, follow-through, interruptibility, and perceived performance
  • Fluency in Figma at expert level — auto-layout, variants, variables, and code connect — and proficiency with design engineering technologies like framer-motion, gsap, and lottie for web-based animation
  • A demonstrable obsession with craft, backed by a portfolio, side projects, GitHub, or production work that includes systems-level work and not just feature work
  • Experience driving adoption of a design system or shared platform across an engineering org, with a track record of influencing technical or design direction beyond your immediate team
  • Experience with AI product surfaces — tool-call UIs, streaming responses, agent state, and dynamic UI rendering — and comfort navigating ambiguous, cross-team problems with good judgment about when to loop others in
  • A genuine commitment to WRITER's values of Connect, Challenge, and Own

Skills

Required:TypeScriptReactFigmaAnimation tooling (framer-motion, gsap, lottie)Design systems
Nice to have:AI product surfaces

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 work-life stipends for: wellness, learning and development
  • Company-wide off-sites and team off-sites
  • Competitive compensation and company stock options
Last updated Oct 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About WRITER

End-to-end agent builder platform that unites IT & business

Eliminate silos with an end-to-end agent builder platform, designed for collaboration—without compromise. Build, activate, and supervise agents.

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