UI/UX Design Engineer

Role overview We’re hiring Hybrid UX/UI Engineers (Design Engineers) who can design sensible, usable user interfaces and ship them in production code. This is not a “Figma hand-off” role. You’ll use UI/visual design judgement and build with semantic HTML, modern CSS, vanilla JavaScript and Web Components. You’ll work in a small delivery team (typically 4–6 people, with a dedicated Product Owner). We work in flow (not sprints), shipping small, frequent changes. Support is part of the role: the team builds it, the team supports it. What you’ll do ● Turn business requirements into deliverable UI work (stories/tasks), shipping iteratively to production ● Design UI solutions (layout, hierarchy, interaction patterns, error/empty/loading states) that meet user needs ● Build accessible UI using semantic HTML, CSS, vanilla JS and Web Components ● Contribute to shared UI libraries/patterns and the documentation that drives consistent adoption (everyone owns the libraries) ● Champion standards: semantic HTML, accessibility, UI patterns; raise capability via pairing, reviews, workshops and documentation ● Identify and address technical debt alongside delivery ● Participate in production support and continuous improvement Essential skills (all levels) ● Strong fundamentals in HTML/CSS/JavaScript, responsive design, and cross-browser behaviour ● Consistent use of semantic HTML and pragmatic, maintainable CSS ● Practical accessibility implementation (keyboard navigation, focus management, labelling, headings/landmarks; sensible ARIA; WCAG principles preferred) ● UI/visual design judgement and the ability to explain trade-offs clearly ● Comfortable consuming RESTful APIs and handling auth/error/edge cases in UI ● Collaborative working style (pairing, constructive reviews, open communication) Junior UX/UI Engineer ● Delivers UI changes with support; grows independence over time ● Applies team standards and learns accessibility practices through coaching ● Contributes to components/patterns by making well-scoped improvements ● Can explain basic design decisions; seeks feedback early and often Mid UX/UI Engineer ● Delivers end-to-end independently and consistently ships production-quality UI ● Proactively improves accessibility, semantic structure and component quality ● Contributes materially to shared libraries/patterns (APIs, states, docs, examples) ● Mentors juniors through pairing/reviews and helps uplift team standards Senior UX/UI Engineer ● Leads UI direction on complex features and sets a high bar for craft ● Shapes shared patterns and drives adoption across teams (not “owns”, but leads by influence) ● Coaches multiple engineers, runs workshops, and resolves tricky UI/a11y edge cases ● Anticipates risks (usability, accessibility, maintainability) and drives pragmatic solutions