Design Engineer

TechWolf; Oost-Vlaanderen; Hybride; EUR 50 000 - 70 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

A leading tech company in Belgium is seeking a Design Engineer to shape the visual and interactive language of their product. You will work collaboratively to enhance user experiences across customer-facing products, implementing design systems and interfaces with React and TypeScript. The ideal candidate has experience in front-end engineering, usability testing, and a passion for user-centered design. This role offers equity, competitive salaries, and opportunities for professional growth.

Prestations

Fair & competitive salaries

Equity options

Flexible working hours

Company car or mobility budget

Health insurance

Work from abroad

Learning opportunities

Team-building activities

Qualifications

• 2–4 years of experience designing and building production-grade web applications.
• Strong front-end engineering skills in React, TypeScript, and CSS.
• Experience in user research and usability testing.

Responsabilités

• Establish and maintain the design system.
• Prototype ideas and validate them with users.
• Implement responsive and accessible interfaces.

Connaissances

Figma

React

TypeScript

CSS

Usability testing

User research

Description du poste

Overview

TechWolf’s award-winning skills-intelligence platform is powered by state-of-the-art Artificial Intelligence and scalable back-end systems. Now, we’re ready to raise the bar with a premium user experience. As our first Design Engineer, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the visual and interactive language of our product. You’ll work hand-in-hand with engineers and product managers to enhance interfaces across all customer-facing products. This is a unique opportunity to help and shape how we approach UX engineering at TechWolf. You’ll have plenty of room to grow, with opportunities to specialize in product design, deepen your engineering craft, or thrive in a hybrid role.

What You'll Do

• Establish and maintain our design system: create a cohesive visual language, component library, and design tokens that scale across teams and products.
• Explore, prototype, validate – contribute to product discovery by prototyping ideas, testing with users, and influencing what we build.
• Build what you design – implement responsive, accessible interfaces with React/TypeScript, ensuring high performance, robust testing, and system maintainability.
• Instrument and iterate – set up analytics, gather feedback, and continuously refine experiences based on data.
• Partner across the organisation – work with multiple teams to elevate UX across the board, bringing consistency and user-centered thinking to diverse initiatives.
• Champion best practices – embed WCAG standards, drive consistency through style guides, and improve design-ops processes across the organisation.
• Mentor others – help teammates level up in design craft and front-end techniques, fostering a user-centered mindset throughout TechWolf.

Who you are

• You have 2–4 years of experience designing and building production-grade web applications.
• You’re skilled in tools like Figma, with a solid foundation in user research and usability testing.
• You bring strong front-end engineering skills like React, Typescript, CSS, …
• You’ve contributed to or built component libraries and design systems.
• You have a strong understanding of accessibility and responsive design principles.
• You care deeply about users and enjoy turning complexity into clear, intuitive experiences.
• You take initiative and thrive when trusted to figure things out and make things happen.
• You communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical teammates and enjoy working in cross-functional teams.
• You’re based in Belgium and excited to work together with the TechWolf team in our Ghent office at least three days per week.

What’s in it for you?

• Fair & competitive salaries – we benchmark our salaries yearly and pay above the market median in every role and location.
• Equity - everyone is an owner at TechWolf and can share in our success!
• Hybrid working and flexible hours - make your work schedule work for you
• Mobility your way - choose between a company car or a mobility budget
• Health insurance & retirement savings
• Work from abroad 3 weeks each year
• Learning and development opportunities
• Walking culture - who doesn’t love brainstorming or connecting with colleagues while taking a walk around the office?
• Fun teambuildings, social & sports activities

Sounds like your cup of tea? There’s more! TechWolf is on a mission to make work better and fairer for millions of people by powering the shift from jobs to skills as a framework to model talent. Our enterprise software uses AI to provide the skill data needed to power that transformation. We provide a unique opportunity to work with an all-star team and cutting-edge product, in a purpose-driven company that aims to empower people to thrive at work. TechWolf is growing fast and you’ll join a high-performing international team with a unicorn dream. Ready to help us build a rocket ship?

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