Senior Product Design Engineer — AI-Driven Design Systems

Lever, Inc.; Österreich; Remote; EUR 89.000 - 133.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Fully remote

Equity included

Async-friendly culture

Globally distributed team

Zusammenfassung

Lever, Inc. is seeking a Senior Product Design Engineer based in Austria to own core product surfaces from concept to production, combining strong product design judgment with design engineering skills.

You will build production-ready frontend components, contribute to a shared design system, and work with AI-assisted tools in a remote-first, async environment. The role sits at the intersection of product design, frontend engineering, design systems, and interaction design, with responsibility

Qualifikationen

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Aufgaben

• Own core product surfaces from concept through production, including booking flows, scheduling primitives, and team and enterprise experiences.
• Translate product problems and hypotheses into high-quality designs, prototypes, and production-ready frontend components.
• Build and test working prototypes using modern AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, and v0, selecting the fastest approach for answering product and design questions.
• Deliver components that product engineers can use directly, ensuring correct semantics, complete interaction states, accessibility, and production-quality implementation.
• Design, engineer, and maintain custom components and primitives rather than relying on generic third-party UI libraries.
• Continuously improve the shared component library by auditing existing primitives, identifying gaps, refining patterns, and contributing reusable components rather than creating one-off solutions.
• Maintain consistency across tokens, spacing, states, dark mode, motion, and interaction patterns, ensuring every new product surface strengthens the overall design system.
• Apply motion and animation thoughtfully, using it to clarify interactions and improve the experience without adding unnecessary complexity.
• Own outcomes rather than simply delivering design artifacts by framing hypotheses, defining success criteria, supporting implementation, and evaluating results.
• Maintain a high accessibility standard across all work, including keyboard navigation, focus management, semantics, contrast, and motion preferences.
• Refine the details that elevate product quality, including empty states, error messaging, loading behavior, transitions, and other interaction nuances.
• Collaborate openly with product and design leadership, sharing work early, incorporating feedback, and allowing technical and product constraints to inform design decisions.
• Document design thinking and decisions through written documentation, prototypes, and recorded walkthroughs to support effective asynchronous collaboration.

Kenntnisse

Product design

Design engineering

Frontend engineering

Design systems

Accessibility

Motion design

AI-assisted development tools

Open-source component systems

Tools

Base UI

Radix

Open-source component systems

Jobbeschreibung

Lever, Inc. is seeking a Senior Product Design Engineer based in Austria to own core product surfaces from concept to production, combining strong product design judgment with design engineering skills.

You will build production-ready frontend components, contribute to a shared design system, and work with AI-assisted tools in a remote-first, async environment. The role sits at the intersection of product design, frontend engineering, design systems, and interaction design, with responsibility