WRITER

Design engineer (UK)

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London, United KingdomMid Level / Senior

Responsibilities

  • Own and maintain the Writer Design System, optimizing it for human developers and AI coding agents.
  • Design and build production-quality UI components and features from sketch through launch.
  • Deliver design-led polish, micro-interactions, animation, and brand moments across the product.
  • Architect new design-system primitives and keep documentation, examples, and libraries synchronized across Figma, .md skills, and Storybook.
  • Set standards for front-end craft, accessibility, motion, consistency, and quality.
  • Research and improve design-to-code workflows to increase productivity across the EPD organization.
  • Partner with designers, product managers, and engineering leads to measure adoption, close gaps, and ensure features meet design-system standards.

Requirements

  • 4–8+ years of experience building production front ends with TypeScript and React.
  • Experience owning a system, platform, or product surface end-to-end rather than only individual features.
  • Strong understanding of animation principles including easing curves, choreography, anticipation, follow-through, interruptibility, and perceived performance.
  • Expert-level Figma proficiency, including auto-layout, variants, variables, and Code Connect.
  • Proficiency with Framer Motion, GSAP, and Lottie for web-based animation.
  • Portfolio, side projects, GitHub, or production work demonstrating systems-level design engineering and strong craft.
  • Experience driving adoption of a design system or shared platform across an engineering organization.
  • Experience with AI product surfaces such as tool-call interfaces, streaming responses, agent state, and dynamic UI rendering.
  • Commitment to WRITER’s values of Connect, Challenge, and Own.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work based out of the London, San Francisco, Chicago, Austin, New York City, or Seattle hubs.
  • Generous paid time off and company holidays.
  • Comprehensive medical and dental insurance.
  • Sixteen weeks of paid parental leave for all parents.
  • Fertility and family planning support.
  • Early-detection cancer testing through Galleri.
  • Competitive pension scheme and company contribution.
  • Wellness, learning and development, and annual work-life stipends.
  • Company-wide and team off-sites.
  • Competitive compensation and company stock options.

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About WRITER

501-1,000 employees

WRITER builds an enterprise generative AI platform for creating, deploying, and supervising AI agents grounded in company data and powered by proprietary LLMs. It sells subscriptions and services to large organizations, with customers such as Accenture, Marriott, Uber, Mars, and Vanguard. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in San Francisco, the privately held company raised a Series C in 2024.

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