Senior Design Engineer

GitHub, Inc.; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading developer platform in the United Kingdom seeks a Senior Design Engineer to shape innovative solutions for developers. The candidate will collaborate with cross-functional teams, ensuring high-quality deliverables in a remote-first environment. The role requires over 7 years of experience in design and expertise in front-end technologies. Competitive compensation and growth opportunities available.

Benefits

Competitive pay

Generous learning opportunities

Excellent benefits

Qualifications

• 7+ years' experience in product or service design.
• Experience as a Design Engineer with a user-centric approach.
• Engagement in projects demonstrated through a portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Bring design concepts to life with high-quality front-end code.
• Build interactive prototypes to test ideas and influence product direction.
• Collaborate closely with designers and engineers.

Skills

UX principles

Collaboration with engineers

Curiosity for AI

Prototyping

Design Implementation

Education

Bachelor's degree in design-related field or equivalent experience

Master's degree in design-related field

Tools

React

CSS

HTML

Vanilla JavaScript

Job description

About GitHub

As the global home for all developers, GitHub is the complete AI-powered developer platform to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 150+ million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate and experiment across 420+ million repositories. With all the collaborative features of GitHub, it has never been easier for individuals and teams to write faster, better code.

Locations

In this role you can work from Remote, United Kingdom

Overview

GitHub is growing its Design team, and we’re seeking a skilled Senior Design Engineer to help shape the future of developer experiences. As a Senior Design Engineer, you’ll work at the intersection of design and front-end engineering to bring innovative, AI-powered solutions to life for millions of developers worldwide. The ideal candidate will take designs from concept to production, building and refining features in close collaboration with engineers, and ensuring each release meets a high bar for quality and usability.

At GitHub, we build solutions that improve the developer experience of people all around the world. As a Design Engineer, you will collaborate with designers, product managers, and other engineers to to build the future of developer tools. You’d work in the GitHub Product Design Team—a group of talented individuals with varied backgrounds in product design, design systems, design ops, front-end development, and illustration. You'll thrive in this role if you bring a strong sense of craft, systems thinking, and a curiosity for how emerging technologies like AI and LLMs can enhance developer tools.

Responsibilities

• Design Implementation: Bring design concepts to life with high-quality, accessible, and performant front-end code. Ensure solutions adhere to GitHub’s design principles and technical standards.

• Prototyping & Feasibility: Build interactive prototypes and proof-of-concepts to test ideas, evaluate feasibility, and influence product direction early in the design process.

• Collaboration: Partner closely with designers, engineers, and PMs to align on UI requirements, contribute to architecture decisions, and provide feedback in design reviews.

• Quality & Craft: Review code for accessibility, performance, and maintainability. Use debugging and dev tools to proactively identify and fix issues.

• Systems & Documentation: Help evolve front-end patterns and design systems. Document best practices and share technical constraints and opportunities with cross-functional partners.

• Delivery & Ownership: Estimate timelines, scope work effectively, and deliver against shared roadmaps with accountability and autonomy.

• Curiosity and initiative: Stay informed on emerging UI patterns, AI capabilities, and front-end technologies to help shape the evolution of developer focused experiences.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years' experience in product or service design,

  • OR bachelor's degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field AND 5+ years' experience in product or service design,

  • OR master's degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field AND 3+ years' experience in product or service design,

  • OR doctorate in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field AND 1+ year(s) experience in product or service design,

  • OR equivalent experience.

• Experience as a Design Engineer working with Engineers, Product Managers, and other Designers applying UX principles, and a user-centric approach to product design, supported by a Portfolio showcasing hands-on contributions to projects.

• Engineering experience working in React, CSS, HTML, and Vanilla JavaScript.

• Experience with WCAG compliance and/or implementing accessibility best practices.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with Large Language Models and AI.

• Experience building products for developer tools.

• Experience contributing to or using an established design system.

• Experience working with Rails

• Experience working with TypeScript, Jest, Storybook, and ESLint

GitHub values

• Customer-obsessed
• Ship to learn
• Growth mindset
• Own the outcome
• Better together
• Diverse and inclusive

Manager fundamentals

• Model
• Coach
• Care

Leadership principles

• Create clarity
• Generate energy
• Deliver success

Who We Are

GitHub is the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform with 150 million developers and counting. We’re also home to the biggest open-source community on earth (and 99% of the world’s software has open-source code in its DNA). Many of the apps and programs you use every day are built on GitHub.
Our teams are dreamers, doers, and pioneers, leading the way in AI, driving humanitarian efforts around the globe, and even sending open source to Mars (and beyond!).At GitHub, our goal is to create the space you need to do your best work. We’re remote-first and offer competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are—because we know that people flourish when they can work on their own terms.
Join us, and let’s change the world, together.

Equal Employment Opportunity

GitHub is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. We don't discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!