Senior Design Engineer

Senior Design Engineer at n8n

As a Senior Design Engineer at n8n, you will play a key role in enhancing our product quality and consistency. You will ensure design excellence across all features and help build a world-class design system that connects design with technical implementation.

About the Role

Your main goal will be to elevate n8n's product quality and consistency by ensuring design excellence across all features while building and scaling a world-class design system that bridges design with technical implementation.

What You'll Do

• Design System Development & Governance:
  • Lead the rollout and evolution of n8n's design system, including creating and maintaining components in Vue.js.
  • Establish governance policies for the design system and ensure its consistent adoption across the product.
  • Work closely with product designers and front-end engineers to refine and implement reusable components.
• Feature Design Quality & Refinement:
  • Review and refine features before release, ensuring they meet our high-quality standards for user experience.
  • Make visual adjustments and improvements to features in alignment with design system standards.
  • Collaborate with front-end engineers to optimize performance and ensure technical feasibility.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration:
  • Partner closely with product designers to ensure the design system supports their needs while maintaining consistency.
  • Collaborate with front-end engineers to implement components and improve the developer experience.
  • Regularly align with product management to ensure feature priorities and design standards are met.

What We're Looking For

• Design excellence: A strong portfolio demonstrating exceptional visual design skills, attention to detail, and the ability to create polished interfaces.
• Technical implementation: Proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and TypeScript, with hands-on experience building production-ready components.
• Design systems experience: Proven track record of contributing to or maintaining design systems, including component creation, documentation, and governance.
• Collaborative mindset: Excellent communication skills, enabling effective work across design and engineering teams, advocating for quality while balancing technical constraints.

Nice to Have

• Vue.js expertise: Existing experience with the Vue.js ecosystem and best practices.
• Animation & interaction: Skills in creating micro-interactions, transitions, and animations that enhance user experience.
• Open-source contribution: Experience contributing to or maintaining open-source projects, understanding community dynamics and feedback loops.
• Performance Optimization: Knowledge of front-end performance best practices and optimization techniques.
• Accessibility Standards: Experience implementing accessibility standards (WCAG) and creating inclusive design experiences.
• Workflow automation domain: Familiarity with workflow automation, iPaaS, or business process automation tools.
• Remote collaboration: Proven success working in distributed teams across time zones.

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation: Fair and attractive pay.
• Ownership: You'll get a slice of n8n with equity.
• Work/life balance:
  • Europe: 30 days of vacation, plus public holidays.
  • US: 20 vacation days, 8 sick days, plus public holidays.
• Health & wellness:
  • Europe: Benefits according to local country norms.
  • US: Multiple low-premium, low-deductible medical plans, plus dental and vision coverage.
• Future planning:
  • Europe: Pension contributions according to local country norms.
  • US: 401(k) retirement plan with a 4% employer match.
• Financial security:
  • Europe: Benefits according to local country norms.
  • US: Company-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance, plus life insurance.
• Career growth: €1K (or equivalent) per year for courses, books, events, or coaching to level up your skills.
• A passionate team: Regular hackathons to build exciting projects.
• Remote-first: Work remotely across Europe, with regular off-sites for team bonding.
• Giving back: $100 per month to support open-source projects.
• AI enablement: Unlimited AI budget to explore and use productivity tools.
• Transparency: Open communication about company operations and projects.
• An ambitious but kind culture: High employee satisfaction, with an eNPS of 94 for 2024.

n8n is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We can sponsor visas to Germany; for any other country, you need to have existing right to work. Our company language is English.