Design Engineer
Wolters Kluwer2 months ago
Berlin, GermanySenior
Responsibilities
- Design and ship product experiences from early concepts through polished production interfaces.
- Work directly in the front-end codebase through pull requests, code reviews, testing, and release.
- Build functional prototypes and define interaction patterns for AI agents, legal documents, citations, generated content, and multi-step workflows.
- Translate design intent into reusable, responsive, accessible components and product patterns while applying WCAG standards.
- Use customer feedback, research, analytics, and session replays to improve critical product experiences.
- Maintain alignment between Figma, shared components, and the production experience.
- Raise quality across visual design, typography, spacing, motion, microcopy, loading states, empty states, and edge cases.
Requirements
- Strong experience designing and building sophisticated digital products in an equally design- and front-end-focused role.
- Strong front-end fundamentals with TypeScript, React, HTML, and CSS.
- Fluency in Figma and confidence working in GitHub and production codebases.
- Experience taking features from exploration and prototyping through release and iteration.
- Exceptional visual design, interaction quality, product judgment, and attention to detail.
- Understanding of responsive design, reusable components, scalable UI architecture, and WCAG accessibility standards.
- Experience using AI tools as a meaningful part of the design and development process.
- Strong collaboration, ownership, communication, and comfort with ambiguity.
- Preferred experience with AI-native products, copilots, agents, generative interfaces, enterprise software, professional tools, document-heavy workflows, legal technology, research products, knowledge-management systems, design systems, or component libraries.
- Familiarity with component tooling such as Storybook is preferred.
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About Wolters Kluwer
Wolters Kluwer builds subscription software, data, and workflow solutions for professionals in healthcare, tax and accounting, legal and regulatory, finance and compliance, and ESG. Its portfolio spans SaaS applications and expert content that support compliance, decision-making, and operational processes. Founded in 1836 and headquartered in Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands, it is publicly traded on Euronext Amsterdam (WKL) and reported 2025 annual revenue of €6.1 billion.