Front End Designer

Minutes to Seconds Pty Ltd; Dubai; On-site; AED 220,000 - 294,000; Full time

Job summary

A forward-thinking digital design company in Dubai is seeking a Design Technologist to bridge design and engineering teams. Responsibilities include translating high-fidelity UI designs into coded components and building design-system components ensuring consistency. The ideal candidate will have 2–5 years in related fields and a background in HCI or computer science.

Qualifications

• 2–5 years in front-end, product design, UX engineering, or similar.
• Experience working on or contributing to a design system.
• Strong sense of interaction, visual, and motion design.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with designers to translate high-fidelity UI designs into coded UI components.
• Build and maintain design-system components ensuring design consistency.
• Document design patterns and assist in creating the style guide.

Skills

HTML5

CSS3

JavaScript

React

Figma

Version control (GitHub)

Education

Bachelor’s degree in HCI, interaction design, computer science, or a related field

Tools

Styleguidist

Storybook

Webpack

Job description

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. The 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 and 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 components, define, and integrate design tokens and APIs.

Requirements

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, Webpack
• Understanding of component architecture: theming, tokens, props API
• Accessibility (WCAG 2.0 / 2.1), responsive design, mobile-first
• Version control (GitHub)
• Experience with Agile / Scrum methodologies

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) is a plus

Soft Skills

• Excellent communication and cross-functional teamwork abilities
• Problem-solving mindset and attention to detail
• Analytical mindset: use data and 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 a related field preferred

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