UI/UX Engineer (Customer-Focused Frontend) → Location: Lund, Sweden

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

UI/UX Engineer (Customer-Focused Frontend)

At Cytely, we’re building a world where science accelerates itself.

As our UI/UX Engineer, you are the crucial bridge between our users' complex needs and our powerful platform. You are a frontend engineer who thinks like a designer. Your mission is to build an experience so intuitive and elegant that it feels like a natural extension of a scientist's mind. You will own the front of the frontend, transforming user insights and design concepts into beautiful, functional, and delightful code.

Key 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.

Qualifications

• Deep user empathy and UX craft: research-informed product thinking and obsession with the ‘why’.
• Exceptional UI implementation: translate complex designs (e.g., Figma) into pixel‑perfect, performant interfaces with thoughtful micro‑interactions.
• End‑to‑end customer focus: lead interviews, convert insights into prototypes, and test to iterate quickly.
• Component‑driven development: experience building or contributing to reusable design systems in code.
• Collaborative spirit: work seamlessly with backend engineers and scientists to translate complex requirements into elegant frontend solutions.
• A passion for the mission: accelerate discovery, unlock human biology, and help cure preventable disease.

Cytely is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to an inclusive environment for all employees.