Design Engineer

About rready

At rreadyAI
, we build AI-native software that makes corporate innovation measurable, manageable, and truly impactful. We’re a Series A B2B SaaS startup (~30 people) working with global brands like Tetra Pak, BMW, and Swisscom to help their employees turn ideas into real outcomes.

Our platform combines automation, personalization, and data-driven insights to scale idea and innovation management across large organizations. And we don’t just build AI-native products - we also use AI to run smarter internally, applying modern tooling and automation across how we work, collaborate, and ship.

The Role

Join us as a Design Engineer and help shape how rready looks, feels, and behaves as we scale our AI-native B2B SaaS platform. You’ll work at the intersection of design and frontend engineering
, owning user-facing experiences from early concept to polished, production-ready interfaces.

You don’t just hand off designs. You design in code
, build real UI components, and ship them into production so users experience interfaces that are intuitive, accessible, and delightful.

🧩 Perfect for people who care deeply about craft
, enjoy strong ownership, and love removing friction between design and engineering, while still spending most of their time building real product UI.

In this hands‑on role, you’ll:

• Design and implement user‑facing interfaces end‑to‑end, from idea to production
• Ship production frontend code
  , not just prototypes or experiments
• Build scalable UI foundations through reusable components, design systems, and continuous refinement

We’re looking for someone who is:

• Craft‑ and quality‑driven, with a bias for finishing things properly
• Comfortable collaborating across Design, Product, and Engineering without heavy handoffs
• Pragmatic: balances visual quality, usability, and technical constraints without over‑engineering

Your Responsibilities

• UI & Experience Ownership (Core Focus): Own the end‑to‑end creation and evolution of user‑facing experiences: interaction design, layout, responsiveness, accessibility, and implementation in production. Ensure consistency, usability, and high visual and interaction quality across the product.
• Design Engineering (Production Frontend): Design and build production‑ready frontend components and interfaces
  . You are expected to ship real frontend code regularly, translate design intent directly into implementation, and improve existing UI through refactoring, iteration, and polish.
• Design Systems & Reusable Components: Contribute to and evolve our design system and component library. Build reusable, well‑structured UI primitives that scale across products and teams, balancing flexibility with consistency.
• UX, Accessibility & Performance: Ensure interfaces are usable, accessible, and performant. Pay attention to details like states, motion, loading behavior, responsiveness, and edge cases. Continuously improve them over time.
• Prototyping & Exploration: Prototype interactions, flows, and ideas in the medium that makes most sense (
  Figma, code, or both
  ). Use prototypes to validate ideas early, align stakeholders, and reduce friction before full implementation.
• Frontend Architecture & Quality: Help maintain clean, scalable frontend architecture. Make thoughtful decisions about component structure, state management, styling, and maintainability to support long‑term product growth.
• Documentation & UI Standards: Create and maintain documentation for UI patterns, components, and usage guidelines so design and engineering decisions are easy to understand, repeat, and evolve. Especially in a distributed team.
• Tooling & Continuous Improvement: Identify friction in design‑to‑code workflows, improve tooling and processes, and help the team ship higher‑quality UI faster. Continuously refine how we design and build interfaces.
• Cross‑Functional
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Work closely with Product Managers, Designers, Backend Engineers, and other stakeholders to shape features early, align on intent, and ensure what ships matches the original vision from concept to production.

Who You Are

• User- and experience‑driven: You care deeply about great user experience. You know that clarity,…