Design Engineer

Validio; Stockholms kommun; On-site; SEK 900,000 - 1,150,000; Full time

Job summary

Validio is seeking a Design Engineer on the frontend team to shape our core user experience. You will work closely with the Lead Frontend Engineer and Head of Product to craft fast, lightweight interfaces and strong architecture using the web platform.

You will evolve the lineage graph, own the data quality experience, and streamline incident response and alerting across multiple channels. A strong product sense and TypeScript expertise are essential to deliver a cohesive UX across UI, GraphQL

Qualifications

• Strong product sense and a focus on how the product feels to use.
• Proficient in TypeScript and DOM fundamentals with web platform focus.
• Strong SQL for large datasets and understanding query costs.
• Ability to guide architecture with AI tools while owning the overall design.
• Comfort working across UI, GraphQL API, and underlying data layers.

Responsibilities

• Evolve the high-scale lineage graph to keep rendering fast and scalable.
• Own the data quality experience, including metrics and layouts for checks.
• Turn incident response into a coherent, systematic workflow.
• Simplify alerting configuration across Slack, Teams, Jira, email, ServiceNow, and webhooks.

Skills

Product sense

TypeScript

DOM fundamentals

SQL

AI tooling usage

UI, GraphQL API, data layers

Generalist frontend

Tools

Web Components

GraphQL

Job description

Validio is the agentic data management platform that automates data quality, lineage, and cataloging — so enterprises can finally trust the data behind their analytics, AI, and reporting. As a Design Engineer on our frontend team, you shape our core user experience — working closely with our Lead Frontend Engineer and Head of Product.

We don't have a separate design team; the product's experience is designed by the people who build it. AI tools now handle much of the repetitive boilerplate, so the job has shifted to what we should build and how it should behave. Because generating code is easy, the bar for good architecture, code quality, and maintainability is higher than ever — we don't blindly ship AI output. Your role centers on product judgment, engineering discipline, and translating complex user needs into an interface that feels fast and lightweight.

What you'll do

• Evolve our high-scale lineage graph — often tens of thousands of nodes per customer — so rendering, querying, and exploration stay fast and responsive
• Own the data quality experience: the density, layouts, and metric graphs that keep thousands of concurrent checks against completeness, validity, timeliness, accuracy, consistency, and uniqueness clean and quick to scan
• Turn incident response — deciding if an anomaly is real, finding the cause, checking sample rows, re-running validators, tracing lineage upstream — into one coherent workflow
• Make alerting configuration simple enough to hold in your head across Slack, Teams, Jira, email, ServiceNow, and webhooks, so the alerts that matter don't get buried in noise

What you bring

• Strong product sense — you notice typography, spacing, hierarchy, and motion, and care about how a product feels to use
• A preference for the web platform — strong TypeScript and DOM fundamentals, and a clear-eyed view of framework trade-offs
• Strong SQL — performant queries against large datasets, reading execution plans, and reasoning about query cost
• Critical use of AI tools — you move fast with modern LLMs but retain full ownership of the architecture and catch what they get wrong
• A generalist mindset — comfortable across the UI, the GraphQL API, and the data layers underneath to ship a feature end to end

What we don't look for

• Years of experience as a metric — we measure seniority by shipped work, architectural judgment, and product taste
• Strict specialization — we're looking for builders who want to own features from idea to production, not people who only want to write CSS or only design backend schemas

Our stack, and why

TypeScript and native Web Components on the frontend — no React, no Vue. We stay close to the web platform to avoid framework churn and major migration cycles. Node.js and GraphQL on the backend, on Postgres with the TimescaleDB extension for time-series workloads — we keep tight control over our data shapes to eliminate unnecessary latency. Claude Code is in daily use, and we adapt our engineering loop as the tooling evolves; we aim for one production release per sprint, weekly or bi-weekly. Prior experience with Web Components isn't required — solid TypeScript and DOM fundamentals are what matter.

Why Validio

Founded in Sweden in 2019, we're trusted by data-driven enterprises like Nordea, Canva, Truecaller, Traveloka, and Deutsche Glasfaser. We raised a $30M Series A this year and grew ARR 800% in twelve months as enterprises got serious about making their data AI-ready. At around 25 people, you'll decide what the core experience should be, not just how it gets built.

Come as you are. We hire for what you'll build with us, and we welcome applicants of every background.