Design Technologist (Designer)

Minutes To Seconds Pty Ltd; Dubai; On-site; AED 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in Dubai is searching for a Design Technologist to serve as a bridge between designers and developers. The ideal candidate will have 2-5 years of front-end product design experience and a bachelor's degree in a related field. Proficient in HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and familiar with design tools like Figma and Storybook, you will help build and maintain design systems ensuring high-quality digital products across the organization. Those with a strong problem-solving mindset and good communication skills will thrive in this role.

Qualifications

• 2-5 years in front-end product design, UX engineering, or similar.
• Experience working on or contributing to a design system.
• Solid foundation in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with designers to translate high-fidelity UI designs into coded components.
• Build and maintain design-system components (React/VUE/Angular).
• Develop accessible, performant responsive interfaces.

Skills

HTML5

CSS3

JavaScript (ES6)

Figma

Responsive design

Version control (GitHub)

Agile/scrum

Education

Bachelor's degree in HCI, interaction design, or related field

Tools

Storybook

Webpack

Job description

Role Overview

A Design Technologist in a design systems unit serves as a bridge between designers and developers supporting both to build consistent high-quality digital products across the organization. Design system engineer acts as a workflow integrator ensuring cohesion between design and engineering.

Ideal for someone who can take design ideas from prototypes through to production-ready code.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with designers to translate high-fidelity UI designs into interactive coded UI components.
  
• Build and maintain design-system components (React VUE Angular) ensuring design consistency across products.
  
• Develop accessible performant responsive interfaces (WCAG standards internationalization).
  
• Document design patterns assist in creating/maintaining the style guide and code library.
  
• Document Design System components in Storybook.
  
• Work within agile methodologies participate in Agile ceremonies across Tribes.
  
• Collaborate closely with front-end engineers to refine component define and integrate design tokens and APIs.
  

Requirements

Requirements & Skills

Technical Skills:

• HTML5 CSS3 (SASS/LESS) JavaScript (ES6) solid foundation
  
• Familiarity with at least one modern UI framework or library (React/VUE/Angular)
  
• Build/design tooling: Storybook STYLEGUIDIST Figma to code plugins Babel Web pack
  
• Understanding of component architecture: THEMING tokens props API
  
• Accessibility (WCAG 2.0/2.1) responsive design mobile-first
  
• Version control (GitHub)
  
• Agile/scrum experience
  

Design & UX Skills:

• Proficient in Figma
  
• Strong sense of interaction visual and motion design with attention to detail
  
• UX fundamentals: user flows accessibility inclusive design
  
• Familiarity with ISO usability standards (ISO 9241) a plus
  

Soft Skills

• Excellent communication & cross-functional teamwork abilities
  
• Problem-solving mindset and attention to detail
  
• Analytical mindset: use data & feedback to iterate
  
• Self-starter proactive in system improvements
  

Experience & Qualifications

• 2 5 years in front-end product design UX engineering or similar
  
• Experience working on or contributing to a design system
  
• Bachelor s degree in HCI interaction design computer science or related field preferred
  

HTML5, CSS3 (SASS/LESS), JavaScript (ES6+) solid foundation Familiarity with at least one modern UI framework or library (React/Vue/Angular) Build/design tooling: Storybook, Styleguidist, Figma to code plugins, Babel, Webpack

Education

2 5 years in front-end, product design, UX engineering or similar Bachelor s degree in HCI, interaction design, computer science, or related field preferred