Design Engineer

Role Overview

• Own the front of the frontend — the component system, page layouts, CSS architecture, visual quality, animation, and micro-interaction detail across the Artificial Platform.
• Implementation quality is your responsibility.
• Work on Bets — we use an adapted Shape Up methodology, alternating between major new feature development (“Bets”) and ongoing iterative improvements.
• Work from design problems, not just specs — you engage in the design problem-solving process, contributing to figuring out what to build, not just building what you’re handed.
• Build working prototypes in React (and, using LLMs, occasional vibed Haskell backend code) that explore interactions, test assumptions, and communicate solutions to the team.
• Define how features work, not just how they look — writing RFCs and feature specifications complete enough for Product Engineers to build upon, covering behaviour, edge cases, and system interactions.
• Expand and maintain our React-based design system — components, primitives, design tokens, and the documentation that makes them usable.
• Stay close to customer insight — through Forward Deployed Engineers, internal recordings, occasional customer calls and conversations with teammates who have direct customer relationships.
• Collaborate with Product Engineers — work together on features, providing feedback and direction, polishing their work in code.
• And when the frontend engineering work gets heavier, hand it over to them to extend your work.
• Collaborate with other designers — participate in design crits and pairing sessions to bring a strong implementation perspective to conversations about design decisions and directions (and propose your own ideas, too!).

Requirements

• 8+ years working as a designer, design engineer, or a combination of both — with meaningful time spent on both sides of the design-code boundary.
• Strong CSS and interaction design capabilities.
• You care deeply about the implementation layer and how things feel in active use.
• Strong in TypeScript (and React).
• You can contribute to (and own, where necessary) production-quality frontend code, and you understand how your design decisions affect engineering feasibility and maintainability.
• Strong communicator — written and verbal.
• You advocate for your ideas with clarity and confidence, and you’re genuinely receptive to feedback.
• You write well enough that your specs and decisions hold up without you in the room to explain them.
• Thrives with autonomy.
• You manage your own priorities, communicate proactively, and don’t need someone to tell you what to do next.
• You’re comfortable navigating uncertainty and balancing competing demands.
• Experience in complex domains (insurtech, fintech, healthcare, legal, etc), developer tools or B2B SaaS products.
• Experience working at startups or scale-ups.
• Comfortable working from incomplete information.
• You make partial decisions well and are explicit about what you’re leaving open.
• Willingness to visit our London office occasionally. This is a big plus, though this is a remote role, so it’s not a dealbreaker if you’re not in a position to do this.

Tech Stack

• Haskell
• React
• TypeScript

Benefits

• Private medical insurance
• Income protection insurance
• Life insurance of 4 * base salary
• On-site gym and shower facilities
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
• Team social events and company parties
• Salary exchange on pension and nursery fees
• Access to Maji, the financial wellbeing platform
• Company stock options managed through Ledgy
• Milestone Birthday Bonus and a Life Events leave policy
• Generous holiday allowance of 28 days plus national holidays
• Home office and equipment allowance, and a company MacBook
• Learning allowance and leave to attend conferences or take exams
• YuLife employee benefits, including EAP and bereavement helplines
• For each new hire, we plant a tree through our partnership with Ecologi
• Action The best coffee machine in London, handmade in Italy and imported just for us!