n8n

Senior Design Engineer

n8n

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇩🇪 Germany

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

JavaScriptTypeScriptVue.js

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.
  • 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.

Requirements

  • 🎨 Design excellence: You have a strong portfolio demonstrating exceptional visual design skills, attention to detail, and the ability to create polished interfaces.
  • 💻 Technical implementation: You have proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and TypeScript, with hands-on experience building production-ready components.
  • ⚙️ Design systems experience: You have a proven track record of contributing to or maintaining design systems, including component creation, documentation, and governance.
  • 🤝 Collaborative mindset: You possess excellent communication skills, enabling you to work effectively across design and engineering teams, advocating for quality while balancing technical constraints.
  • 🖥️ Vue.js expertise: Existing experience with the Vue.js ecosystem and best practices would accelerate your impact.
  • 🎞️ 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.
Benefits
  • Competitive compensation 💸 – We offer fair and attractive pay.
  • Ownership 💪 – Our core value is to “empower others,” and we mean it—you’ll get a slice of n8n with equity.
  • Work/life balance 🏖️ – We work hard but ensure you have time to recharge: 30 days of vacation, plus public holidays wherever you are in Europe.
  • Health & wellness 🩺 – We provide benefits according to local country norms.
  • Future planning 💰 – We provide pension contributions according to local country norms.
  • Financial security 🛡️ – We provide benefits according to local country norms.
  • Career growth 📈 – You’ll get €1K (or equivalent) per year to spend on courses, books, events, or coaching to level up your skills.
  • A passionate team 🤩 – We love our product, and we prove it with regular hackathons where we see who can build the coolest thing with it!
  • Remote-first 🌏 – Our team works remotely across Europe, with regular off-sites for team bonding.
  • Giving back 🤝 – You'll get $100 per month to support projects you care about.
  • AI enablement 🤖 – Everyone gets an unlimited AI budget to explore and use the best tools to boost productivity and creativity.
  • Transparency 🙏 – The whole team knows what everyone’s working on and how the company is doing.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
HTMLCSSJavaScriptTypeScriptVue.jsDesign systemsPerformance optimizationMicro-interactionsAnimationsAccessibility standards
Soft skills
CommunicationCollaborationAttention to detailAdvocacy for qualityProblem-solvingCross-functional teamworkRemote collaboration