granola - Design Engineer

Old Street, London, United Kingdom - Hybrid£100k - £130k+ Equity6mo ago

In Office EMEA UX Designer Web Designer React TypeScript Tailwind Figma

Requirements

• Experience working as a Design Engineer, frontend engineer with strong design skills, or designer with strong engineering skills • Highly proficient with React, TypeScript, Tailwind and have a solid grasp of modern frontend architecture • Strong visual and interaction design skills — you care deeply about details, polish, and making things feel "just right" • Natural prototyper who's comfortable exploring in Figma, code, or AI tools, depending on what's fastest • Worked on (or are drawn to) design systems and component libraries, and know how to balance consistency with flexibility • As a person, you… • Are first and foremost a builder • Are excited to work in-person from our office in London (most of the time) • Love working in a startup environment (you either have experience working in a startup or are really drawn to the zero-to-one phase) • Value working with people who are kind, ambitious, and pragmatic • Thrive in a fast-paced iterative startup environment where experimentation is encouraged

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain a robust, scalable design system in both Figma and code (React, Tailwind etc.) • Prototype and ship high-quality, production-ready UI that nails the details — from typography and color to motion and microinteractions • Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and Engineering to bring new features to life, from early concept to polished implementation • Maintain consistency as we grow across multiple platforms (Mac, Windows, iOS) • Identify and fix gaps between design and engineering, raising the quality bar across the product • Help invent new interaction patterns for AI-driven tools

Benefits

• Base Salary £100K – £130K • Offers Equity • + Benefits (inc Private Health Insurance, Mallorca villa & more) • We aim to pay above market with competitive salaries, generous options grants on friendly terms plus great perks to support you outside of work. • Upload your resume here to autofill key application fields. • Drop your resume here! • Parsing your resume. Autofilling key fields... • or drag and drop here • Think of this as your super-condensed cover letter. • In 5 sentences or less, share why you'd love to be part of our team. • While there's plenty of flexibility for life's demands, our success is built on face-to-face collaboration and we spend time together, in person, every day.