Design engineer (UK)Posted today

The opportunity

WRITER is where the world's leading enterprises orchestrate AI-powered work. Our vision is to expand human capacity through superintelligence.

What you'll do

  • 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

What they're looking for

  • Partner with designers, PMs, and engineering leads to measure WDS adoption,: close gaps, and make sure shipped features meet design system standards
  • –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 β€” and proficiency with design engineering technologies like framer-motion, gsap, and lottie for web-based animation