Senior Design Engineer

n8n; Italia; Remoto; EUR 60.000 - 80.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

A leading workflow orchestration platform is seeking a Design System Developer to elevate product quality through design excellence in a remote-friendly environment. Ideal candidates will have a strong portfolio in visual design, proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Vue.js, and a collaborative mindset to work across teams and refine product features. We encourage applications from diverse backgrounds and offer competitive benefits including equity and 30 vacation days.

Servizi

Competitive compensation

Equity

30 days vacation

Health & wellness benefits

Career growth funding

Remote-first culture

Regular hackathons

Unlimited AI budget

Transparency in company performance

Competenze

• Strong portfolio demonstrating exceptional visual design skills.
• Proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and TypeScript.
• Experience in design systems with component creation.

Mansioni

• Lead the rollout of n8n's design system in Vue.js.
• Review features ensuring high-quality user experience.
• Collaborate with product designers and front-end engineers.

Conoscenze

Visual design skills

Attention to detail

HTML

CSS

JavaScript

TypeScript

Collaborative mindset

Strumenti

Vue.js

Descrizione del lavoro

Overview

n8n is the open AI workflow orchestration platform built for the new era of AI. We give technical teams the freedom of code with the speed of no-code, so they can automate faster, smarter, and without limits. Backed by a fiercely inventive community and 500+ builder-approved integrations, we’re changing the way people bring systems together and scale ideas for impact. Since our founding in 2019, we’ve grown into a diverse team of over 160 — working across Europe and the US, connected by a shared builder spirit with our centre of gravity in Berlin. We’ve:

• Cultivated a community of more than 650,000 active developers and builders
• Earned 145k+ GitHub stars, making us one of the world’s Top 40 most popular projects
• Ranked as one of Europe’s most promising privately held SaaS startups (4th in Sifted’s 2025 B2B SaaS Rising 100)
• Raised $240m to date, from Sequoia’s first German seed to our recent $180m Series C — bringing us to a $2.5bn valuation
• We’re grateful for our 94 eNPS score (highly favorable vs typical benchmarks)

That’s the company we’ve built. Now we’d love to see what you can build. If you’re applying, try n8n out — whether you’re technical or not — and share a screenshot of your first workflow with us. The easiest place to start is here: app.n8n.cloud/register.

We’re in a defining moment of an incredible journey. Come and build with us.

Your main goal

Your main goal will be to elevate n8n's product quality and consistency by ensuring design excellence across all features while building and scaling a world-class design system that bridges design with technical implementation.

Responsibilities

• Design System Development & Governance: Lead the rollout and evolution of n8n's design system, including creating and maintaining components in Vue.js.
• Establish governance policies for the design system and ensure its consistent adoption across the product.
• Work closely with product designers and front-end engineers to refine and implement reusable components.

• Feature Design Quality & Refinement: Review and refine features before release, ensuring they meet high-quality standards for user experience.
• Make visual adjustments and improvements to features in alignment with design system standards.
• Collaborate with front-end engineers to optimize performance and ensure technical feasibility.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with product designers to ensure the design system supports their needs while maintaining consistency.
• Collaborate with front-end engineers to implement components and improve the developer experience.
• Regularly align with product management to ensure feature priorities and design standards are met.

Must-haves

• 🎨 Design excellence: You have a strong portfolio demonstrating exceptional visual design skills, attention to detail, and the ability to create polished interfaces.
• 💻 Technical implementation: You have proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and TypeScript, with hands-on experience building production-ready components.
• ⚙️ Design systems experience: You have a proven track record of contributing to or maintaining design systems, including component creation, documentation, and governance.
• 🤝 Collaborative mindset: You possess excellent communication skills, enabling you to work effectively across design and engineering teams, advocating for quality while balancing technical constraints.

Nice-to-haves

• 🖥️ Vue.js expertise: Existing experience with the Vue.js ecosystem and best practices would accelerate your impact.
• 🎞️ Animation & interaction: Skills in creating micro-interactions, transitions, and animations that enhance user experience.
• 🌍 Open-source contribution: Experience contributing to or maintaining open-source projects, understanding community dynamics and feedback loops.
• 🔧 Performance Optimization: Knowledge of front-end performance best practices and optimization techniques.
• ♿ Accessibility Standards: Experience implementing accessibility standards (WCAG) and creating inclusive design experiences.
• 🔄 Workflow automation domain: Familiarity with workflow automation, iPaaS, or business process automation tools.
• 🏡 Remote collaboration: Proven success working in distributed teams across time zones.

n8n is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We can sponsor visas to Germany; for any other country, you need to have existing right to work.

Our company language is English.

You care about diversity and inclusion? We do too! Check out our Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging initiatives at n8n (https://www.notion.so/n8n/Diversity-inclusion-and-belonging-n8n-c1bec2fff536422d868b1a438d990e35).

Location disclaimer: If you see multiple job postings for the same role, it is most likely because we're hiring remotely for this role and posting in different locations to make sure every potential candidate can see the role. Please apply to the location you're the most likely to work from in the future.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation – We offer fair and attractive pay.
• Ownership – Our core value is to “empower others,” and you’ll get a slice of n8n with equity.
• Work/life balance – We work hard but ensure you have time to recharge:
• Europe: 30 days of vacation, plus public holidays wherever you are.
• US: 15 vacation days, 8 sick days, plus public holidays wherever you are.
• Health & wellness: Europe benefits according to local country norms; US medical, dental, and vision plans.
• Future planning: Europe pension contributions; US 401(k).
• Financial security: Europe benefits according to local country norms; US disability, life, and hospital coverage.
• Career growth: We offer €1K per year for courses, books, events, or coaching to level up your skills.
• A passionate team: Regular hackathons to showcase what you can build with n8n.
• Remote-first: Team works remotely across Europe, with regular off-sites; some roles (like US sales) are hybrid.
• Giving back: We provide $100 per month to support projects you care about.
• AI enablement: Unlimited AI budget to explore tools for productivity and creativity.
• Transparency: We share what everyone’s working on and company performance.
• An ambitious but kind culture: eNPS 94 in 2024.
• Country-specific details provided in your contract.