Design Engineer: Design Systems & UI Prototyping

Nord Security; Poland; On-site; PLN 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Training & mentorship

Extra vacation days

Health insurance

Mental wellness perks

In-house gyms

Sport cards

Work from anywhere

Team events

Workation

Job summary

Nord Security is seeking a Design Engineer to advance the Aurora design system across multiple platforms. You will work at the intersection of design and code, translating concepts into polished, accessible UI components and driving adoption of best practices and design automation.

You’ll contribute to visual language, tooling, and cross-disciplinary collaboration, with a focus on scalable design system architecture and high-quality frontend deliverables.

Qualifications

• Proven experience building and scaling design systems.
• Strong product design fundamentals plus independent decision making.
• Proficient in Javascript, modern CSS, and semantic HTML.
• Figma fluency with component architecture and translation to code.
• Experience with Storybook for development and testing.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and evolve Aurora component kits across ReactKit, AstroKit, and AppKit, ensuring consistency.
• Contribute to Aurora's visual language—component anatomy, variants, states, and motion in Figma and code.
• Build internal design tooling, including Figma plugins and CLI utilities, CI checks, and prototyping tools.
• Advocate best practices, drive design automation, tooling, and testing strategies in design engineering.
• Guide and train product teams to adopt and utilize the Aurora design system effectively.
• Bridge design and code by prototyping interactions and translating concepts into polished UI components.
• Craft engaging interactions and micro-interactions to enhance UX.
• Ensure accessibility and WCAG AA compliance across components.
• Own the technical implementation and architecture of the design system components.

Skills

Design System

Design Craft

JavaScript

TailwindCSS

Semantic HTML

Figma

Storybook.js

Collaboration

Design-to-Code

Tools

Storybook.js

Figma

Job description

Nord Security is seeking a Design Engineer to advance the Aurora design system across multiple platforms. You will work at the intersection of design and code, translating concepts into polished, accessible UI components and driving adoption of best practices and design automation.

You’ll contribute to visual language, tooling, and cross-disciplinary collaboration, with a focus on scalable design system architecture and high-quality frontend deliverables.