Design Engineer

At SunGod, we're driven by our mission to See Better: better products, with a better customer experience, that are better for the planet. Our mission & who we are... SunGod was born in 2013 with a vision to create the world’s best performance eyewear. We see a better world; through our lenses, through our actions, and through doing business better. Our planet is our playground, so we’re a community-built brand, that’s sustainable to our core. With you, our mission is multiplied and together we can See Better. We’re a dynamic and expanding team, being results-driven we see high-quality output from all team members. We’re unlike any company you’ve ever worked for before. At a glance 🕑 Full-time starting December, with hybrid working 😎 Mid Weight, ready to step to to a leadership role. 💰 Experienced-based salary between £60-75k 📍 London (minimum 3 office days/week) ⭐ Five-stars on Glassdoor 🌴 Generous 30 days holiday allowance plus bank holidays 🏆 Leading benefits package & competitive salary 🅱 Work for a Certified B Corporation™ 💹 Opportunity to get in at the ground floor of a purpose-driven, fast-paced, fast-growth company in the outdoor industry; lots of scope for your growth! What is the job role? A Design Engineer who owns sungod.co end to end, from Figma through to production, using design and code to move our key commercial metrics. Core Responsibilities Storefront: our headed Shopify theme, built with Liquid, Vite, Tailwind CSS and Alpine.js (TypeScript), deployed through a CI/CD pipeline on GitHub ActionsShopify apps: maintaining and extending our internal app, which runs Shopify Functions for cart transforms and discount logicDesign system: maintaining and extending our Figma design system and keeping it in step with the coded componentsProduct design: taking UI/UX improvements from concept to production, measured against conversion, AOV and other key metricsCommercial enablement: partnering with commercial and marketing teams on promotions, campaigns, launches and strategic offers, and advising on how the site can best support themTooling and microsites: scope to propose and build custom tools and microsites for wider business needs, with ownership of the technology and architecture choices.Design and build new functionality to support competitions, promotional mechanisms, advanced customer data capture, accounts and loyalty. Must Have Strong HTML, CSS and modern JavaScript/TypeScriptExperience building Shopify themes in Liquid (sections, blocks, metafields, metaobjects)Tailwind CSS or another utility-first approach, plus component-based thinkingExperience with a lightweight JS framework such as Alpine.js (Vue or React experience transfers well)Git, PR-based workflows and confidence working within an existing CI/CD setupA strong Figma-to-production workflow, including design systems and tokensSolid grasp of performance, accessibility (WCAG) and responsive designA portfolio showing both design and shipped code Nice to have Shopify Plus, Shopify Functions, Checkout Extensibility, Storefront/Admin APIsVite or other modern build tooling Motion and interaction design in codeShopify app development (Node, React Router/Remix)Multi-market and multi-currency ecommerceAI-assisted development workflows