Design Engineer: Own the Design System & Frontend

Octopus Legacy Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27 days holiday + bank holidays + your

Pension 3% contribution

Hybrid in London

Job summary

Octopus Legacy Limited is seeking an experienced Design Engineer to own the component library and design tokens, shaping the design system across multiple teams and turning rough ideas into shipped interfaces. You’ll design flows in Figma and implement them in React and TypeScript.

You’ll not get a pixel-perfect mock; you’ll create it, ship it, and watch how people use it to improve the product. We’re AI-native and value architecture, judgement, and attention to detail, with a hybrid

Qualifications

• Portfolio shows both design and code.
• Strong Figma/Paper experience: components, variables, auto layout.
• Production React and TypeScript.
• Taste, and the ability to explain it to an engineer in terms they’ll act on.

Responsibilities

• Design flows and interfaces in Figma, then build them in React.
• Own the component library and design tokens, and keep Figma and code saying the same thing.
• Make hard things feel calm. Someone planning for their own death shouldn’t have to fight a form.
• Hold the line on accessibility. Our users span every age and ability.
• Prototype fast, so Product and engineers can react to something real instead of a paragraph.

Skills

React

TypeScript

Figma

Design systems

Portfolio

Tools

Next.js

Vue

Paper

Job description

Octopus Legacy Limited is seeking an experienced Design Engineer to own the component library and design tokens, shaping the design system across multiple teams and turning rough ideas into shipped interfaces. You’ll design flows in Figma and implement them in React and TypeScript.

You’ll not get a pixel-perfect mock; you’ll create it, ship it, and watch how people use it to improve the product. We’re AI-native and value architecture, judgement, and attention to detail, with a hybrid