Design Engineer

Design Engineer | AI Intelligence Platform, Financial Services | Up to £80,000 | Hybrid, Central London

We're hiring the first Design Engineer for a fast-growing AI intelligence platform that benchmarks how the world's largest banks and insurers are adopting AI. Since launching its flagship index in January 2023, it's become the global standard for AI maturity in financial services, working with dozens of the world's biggest banks.

This is a genuinely brand new role that bridges the gap between the Design and Engineering teams. You'll sit inside their pod, but you're the person who actually understands both sides of the fence; turning design intent into production code without waiting on a handoff queue. You'll own the design system and the consistency of every dashboard, tracker and client-facing surface as the product suite expands into new verticals.

• Ship production UI in React, Next.js, Type Script, Tailwind, Radix and CVA
• Own the design system end to end, in both Figma and code
• Build usable interfaces for genuinely complex, data-dense products
• Work directly with the VP of Engineering, senior designer and full-stack engineers, with real autonomy over platform UI

• A track record building or contributing to a design system
• Real UI/UX judgement, not just Figma fluency, but backed by evidence and instinct
• Comfortable with dense data interfaces: tables, charts, comparison views, filtering
• A collaborative operator, not a siloed one, genuinely happy in the office 3 days a week

deeper Figma skills, data/analytics platform projects worked on, familiarity with a modern component-driven stack.

This company has never made this hire before, so you're not slotting into someone else's playbook, you're defining it. It's a real product problem from week one, not a backlog of tickets. This organisation truly value people and are absolutely adamant on culture-first hiring.