Frontend UI/UX Engineer for Intuitive Scientist Tools

Cytely; Lunds kommun; On-site; SEK 700,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Cytely is seeking a UI/UX Engineer to bridge complex user needs and a powerful scientific platform. You will own frontend experiences, turning insights and designs into intuitive, high‑quality code that feels like a natural extension of a scientist's thinking.

You’ll collaborate with biologists and researchers to translate pain points into shipped features, build a reusable design system, and deliver data‑rich, publication‑ready graphs.

Qualifications

• Deep user empathy and UX craft; focus on why users need features.
• Translate complex designs (Figma) into pixel‑perfect, performant interfaces with subtle micro-interactions.
• End-to-end customer focus: interview users, translate insights into prototypes, and test iteratively.
• Component-driven development: contribute to or build reusable design systems in code.
• Collaborative spirit: work with backend engineers and scientists to translate complex requirements into frontend solutions.
• A passion for the mission: accelerate discovery and help cure preventable disease.

Responsibilities

• Build, prototype, and ship world-class UIs that bring ‘one-click assays’ and a ‘visual pipeline builder’ to life within Phoenix LiveView.
• Translate user needs into reality by collaborating directly with biologists and researchers and turning pain points into shipped features.
• Implement and maintain a world-class component library/design system in code to ensure cohesion, reusability, performance, and accessibility.
• Bring data to life with interactive, publication-ready graphs and shareable datasets that compress time from experiment to insight.
• Champion the user experience in technical discussions so features are powerful, intuitive, and easy to use.

Skills

UX empathy

UI implementation

Customer focus

Design systems

Collaboration

Motivation

Job description

Cytely is seeking a UI/UX Engineer to bridge complex user needs and a powerful scientific platform. You will own frontend experiences, turning insights and designs into intuitive, high‑quality code that feels like a natural extension of a scientist's thinking.

You’ll collaborate with biologists and researchers to translate pain points into shipped features, build a reusable design system, and deliver data‑rich, publication‑ready graphs.